Works Consulted:

• Minimum of FOUR informational sources:
  • one source for each of the initial three saints you choose to research
  • another source for whichever saint you decide to research further
• Please ONLY use databases and websites from this research guide — do not use random websites you have found on your own!
  • Books from the library are also available

Images

• For all images, use any of the following:
  • Creative Commons
  • Google Image search with Tools set to Usage Rights → Creative Commons licenses
  • Photos for Class
  • ArtStor

Books:

• Books will be available in the library bag, but feel free to also search on the online library catalog for anything you need

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)

• 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

Project Guidelines:

• PROJECT DUE DATES: 8-1 / 8-2 / 8-3
• Sample notecards
  • Quotes vs Paraphrases vs Summaries
• Sample Essay (with in-text citations)
• Style Sheet (this will answer most of your how-to questions about parenthetical citations)
• Common Errors with in-text citations

Project Resources:

• Keep track of your sources AS YOU FIND THEM using NoodleTools.  
• NOTES:
  • If you find your own website using a search engine, you must fill out a website evaluation form. Make sure to leave ample time to have Ms. Molina review it! (Remember that you cannot use websites until you have found four secondary sources from the databases.)
• Print Resources
  • There are 90+ print resources available, including primary sources. To find them, search the library catalog or ask Ms. Molina for recommendations.

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)
• Smithsonian Primary Sources (primary)

*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

*cannot use until you have found four secondary sources from the databases

Works Consulted

• You must have eight informational sources for this project. Keep track of your sources AS YOU FIND THEM using NoodleTools

Images

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

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

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. Molina if you are unsure about how to do this.

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:

• 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