8th Grade

Works Consulted

• Must have at least EIGHT informational sources

Images

• Creative Commons
• Google Image search with Tools set to Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
• Photos for Class
• Picryl

Bible

• Bible Gateway
  • NOTE: cite this as a website (on NoodleTools, choose website→book). Make sure to include the URL, and use the bible publication information that is listed below the passage. See Ms. Cord if you are unsyure about how to do this.
• Sooth
  • NOTE: cite this as a website ( on NoodleTools, choose website→webpage). Sooth is not the website. It works like Google. The webpage you cite is the webpage the information is found on.

Church

• Call to Faith: Morality — NOTE: cite this as you would a basic book.
• US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Morality
• YOUCAT — NOTE: cite this as you would a basic book. Full title is YOUCAT: Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Science

• American Psychological Association (website)
• Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints (database)
• Teen Health & Wellness (database)

Society

• National Public Radio
• Official Website of the City of New York
• Convent of the Sacred Heart
• Student handbook — NOTE: cite this as you would a basic book. Author group is Convent of the Sacred Heart. Look for publication information on the title page.

Works Consulted

• You must have eight informational sources and for this project. Keep track of your sources AS YOU FIND THEM using NoodleTools.
• Works Consulted document, properly formatted, with citations (including image citations, if applicable) attached to the end of the final project.
• 8 notecards in NoodleTools (2 Bible, 2 Church, 2 Science, and 2 Community citations)
• 8 in-text citations within the final project

Images

• To cite an image in NoodleTools: Website  → Photo or Image (Born Digital).
• Many of the databases have images for use and provide you with the MLA image citation, which you can export to NoodleTools. Please check the databases first.
• If you use the Photos for Class image website the citation is built into the image itself, so you do not need to cite it in NoodleTools.
• If searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses. You will have to build the citation yourself using NoodleTools.

 

Databases

• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints
• SIRS Discoverer
• Teen Health and Wellness (database → original content)
• World Book (database → original content)

Ebooks

• Bible Gateway (website → book → print publication information provided)

Websites (website → web page)

• ​American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Bar Association
• American Psychological Association
• Convent of the Sacred Heart
• Gothamist
• National Geographic
• National Public Radio
• Nature Magazine
• Official Website of the City of New York
• US Conference of Catholic Bishops: Morality

Civil War Research Paper Topics

Civil War Project Guidelines 2025-2026

8-1 Civil War Project Due Dates 2025-2026

8-2 Civil War Project Due Dates 2025-2026

8-3 Civil War Project Due Dates 2025-2026

Make sure to share your NoodleTools project to Ms. Hauschen's inbox in NoodleTools. 

Inbox name: [Your Section] Civil War Project 25-26 (Example: "8-3 Civil War Project 25-26")

Databases:​

• African-American History​ (primary, secondary)
• American History (primary, secondary)
• Daily Life Through History (primary, secondary)
• EBSCOhost (secondary)​
• Gale eBooks (secondary)
• Gale in Context: Middle School (secondary)
• Gale OneFile: U.S. History (secondary)
• Gale OneFile: War and Terrorism (secondary)
• ​Gilder Lehrman: American History, 1493-1945 (primary)
• Issues & Controversies in History (primary, secondary)
• Oxford Reference (secondary)

*You may use ONE article from ONE of the following databases as a jumping off point for your research*:

• Britannica Academic (secondary)
• Britannica School (secondary)
• World Book Student (secondary)

Websites:

• ​African American Civil War Museum
• American Civil War Museum
• American Battlefield Trust
• Digital Public Library of America
• Library of Congress
• National Institutes of Health
• National Park Service: The Civil War
• New York Historical Society
• New York Times
• The Rockwell Museum
• Smithsonian

Works Consulted:

• Minimum of FOUR informational sources:
  • two informational sources for whichever saint you decide to research
  • two sources for images
• Please ONLY use databases and websites from this research guide — do not use random websites you have found on your own!
  • Books from the physical and digital library are also available

Images

• Canva (no citation needed)
  To cite an image in NoodleTools: Website  → Photo or Image (Born Digital).
• ArtStor (export your citations to NoodleTools)
• Many of the databases have images for use and provide you with the MLA image citation, which you can export to NoodleTools. Please check the databases first.
• If searching within Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses. You will have to build the citation yourself using NoodleTools.
• Creative Commons

Books:

• Sora eBooks are available through this eCollection: Class 8 Saints Project (How to cite a Sora eBook)
• Books will be available for in-class use only. 

Databases:

• Britannica Academic (database → original content)
• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Gale eBooks (database → book or reference source [depending on publication])
• Gale in Context: Middle School (database → magazine, or journal, or book, or reference source, etc. To figure it out, look at hyperlink at top of article, next to word "from")
• Oxford Reference (database → book or reference source [depending on publication])
• World Book Student (database → original content)
• World Religions (database → original content)

Websites: (website → web page)

• Sooth.fyi
• Catholic Online: Saints & Angels
• FaithND (select "View Archived" from the dropdown menu)
• Mystics of the Church
• Orthodox Church in America
• Roman Catholic Saints (look at list of saints A–Z on left-side of page)
• Sacred Heart Education

Works Consulted:

• Minimum of THREE information sources required
• One of those sources must be the YOUCAT

Databases: 

• Britannica Academic (database → original content)
• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Gale eBooks
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• Oxford Reference
• World Book Student (database → original content)
• World Religions​

Websites: 

• Sooth.fyi
• America: The Jesuit Review
• For Your Marriage​
• Sacraments and Sacramentals
• Women's Ordination Conference

Works Consulted:

• Minimum of TWO information sources required
• Please use only the resources listed below (do not use Google to find more information)

Books and Images:

• Books will be available in the library bag, but feel free to also search on the online library catalog for anything you need.
• Formal citations for images are NOT necessary
  • Instead, include a list of image URLs at the end of your slideshow/last page of your Google Doc
• Images used need to have Creative Commons liceneses:
  • From your search on Google Images, choose Tools → Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses 
  • Picryl and Photos for Class are other great options

Databases:

• Britannica Academic (database → original content)
• Britannica School (database → original content)
• Daily Life Through History: Elizabethan England
• Gale in Context: Middle School
• World Book Student (database → original content)​​

Websites:

• Amusements and Pastimes in Elizabethan England​
• Daily Life in Elizabethan England: The Contrasting Lives of Rich, Middling and Poor
• Courtship and Marriage
• The Elizabethan Court
• Elizabethan Education
• Food in Elizabethan England
• The Four Humors: Eating in the Renaissance
• Shakespeare's Theater
• Shakespeare's Life and World
• The Social Structure in Elizabethan England

Databases

Encyclopedia