Author: Dorothy Frechette

February 2008

What's in a name? Library media specialists are also teachers. As teacher librarians we teach the information process, understand the uses of technology, select and use a wide variety of materials, and work in partnership with classroom teachers using books, information and technology.

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ASSESSMENT TARGET
1.a. Student should be able to provide a basic description of government.
1.b. Student should be able to explain the difference between authority and power without authority, and that authority comes from custom, law, and the consent of the governed. materials correlated to this standard →

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• Hutchinson, Anne M.
• Pastore, John Orlando • Perry, Oliver Hazard • Philip, King • Reed, Jack • Slater, Samuel • Stuart, Gilbert Charles • Williams, Roger • Woodcock, Leonard

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The school library media center - where information is available in a wide variety of formats, both print and electronic; where materials and activities are coordinated with classroom assignments; and where students learn information skills that will prepare them to live and work in the 21st century.

** Surf the Ages **
This feature provides more than 100 Web sites covering the whole of history. Its aim is to answer the question, "What if the Internet had existed throughout history?" Three Ages are covered: Ancient Times, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. Each contains a range of news, government, commercial, or other sites from the viewpoint of people at the time. Any word unfamiliar to modern readers is underlined.
Rhode Island Biographies
• Burnside, Ambrose E. • Chafee, John Hubbard • Chafee, Lincoln Davenport • Cohan, George M. • Ellery, William • Gray, Robert • Green, Theodore F. • Greene, Nathanael • Hopkins, Esek • Hopkins, Stephen

World Book Advanced
1.3 million pages of primary source documents, including 5,500 full text e-books
a Timeline Builder
a Citation Builder
Reuters news feed
individual My Research Page for each user (held on WB servers, not school servers) where students can save any/all research results
an integrated search engine that suggests secondary resources AND also primary source documents and e-books, perfect for middle and high school research projects
Pathfinders for many research project blueprints

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Animal
Architecture
Art
Australia
Canada
City
Civil War, American
Dinosaur
Indians, American ...
Invention
Lincoln, Abraham
Literature
Olympic Games
Planet
Poetry
Revolutionary War in America
United States
Volcano
Washington, George
World War I
World War II

Preparing a research paper
Before you write
Making a schedule
Choosing a topic
Background reading
The preliminary outline
Preparing a list of sources
Source card
Doing research
Note card
The final outline
Writing the first draft

The Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), in Massachusetts, actually fought on Breed's Hill, was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War. The Americans twice drove back the British with musket fire from the hilltop fortifications. The Americans then ran out of gunpowder and were driven from the hill.

Preparing citations
Preparing an appendix
Revising your first draft
The final copy

Timeline: Presidents of the United States

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Benedict Arnold
A courageous soldier
A disappointed officer

Turns traitor
Scorned in England