ENG 3U1
Nineteenth Century
Famous people
Objectives:
To conduct library research to learn more about a famous person of the nineteenth century and
determine how this figure affected his/her time.
Skills:
Note taking (link to http://ancasterhigh.hwdsb.on.ca/Departments/Library) Go to Research
skills…Note-taking link
Using a variety of sources (Use the Citation help link on the website for help with MLA style.)
You must use at least three different sources (a book, Internet website, and an encyclopedia (on-line or book)
Evaluation of sources
Presenting in an interesting manner after organizing and rehearsing your presentation.
FIND A BOOK: Book Collection (IPAC):
Log on to any computer
Go to Desk Tools
Find Ancaster On-Line Catalogue on the desktop and double click
Or
Use the dedicated On-line catalogue computer
http://10.148.0.47/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=506#focus
General Encyclopedia:
These are located on the shelves near the seating area.
Grolier On-line encyclopedia
http://go-ontario.grolier.com
Username: hamwdsb
Password: hamw7124
The 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Main_Page
Special Reference Materials:
These are the specific encyclopedias and are located along the back wall. In each source, use
the INDEX to locate your topic.
808.8 COR Encyclopedia of the Victorian World
820.9 OXF The Oxford Companion to English Literature
942 CHR
Chronicle of Britain
Dictionary of World Biography – use the index
Encyclopedia of the 19th Century
Internet
On-line Databases:
Virtual Library ACCESS
Ancaster Library Website
http://ancasterhigh.hwdsb.on.ca/Departments/Library
Virtual Library
http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/services/virtuallibrary/
ID: secondary
Password: library
What’s in the Virtual Library that could be helpful for this project?
Finding eBooks:
EBSCO
Literary Reference Centre
Other Databases:
DATABASES
MaGills Onliterature__
For Search Engines
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.ca
Kartoo
http://www.kartoo.com
Quintura
A visual search engine
http://www.quintura.com/
Directory of Victorian Resources
http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvicto
rian.html
Virtual Victorians (includes a day in the
life feature)
http://www.victorians.org.uk/
The Victorians
http://victorian.lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/sites/links.html
http://www.victorianlinks.com/
www.geocities.com/victorianlace10/chrono.
html
http://www.deltacomdesign.co.uk/victoriana_historical.htm
http://killeenroos.com/link/victoria.htm
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/
Victorian_index.htm
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victo
rians/
Victorian Timeline
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/sc
otland/victorians.shtml
http://www.victorianstation.com/timeline
.htm
http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/niels
en/victime.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part08x.html
The Literature Network
http://www.onlineliterature.com/author_index.php
English literature 1801-1870 (Dickens,
Shelley etc)
http://bubl.ac.uk/link/e/englishliterature1
801-1870.htm
Victorian Dictionary
http://www.victorianlondon.org/
Victorian Web (has many
links)
http://www.victorianweb.org/
Victorian Research Web
http://victorianresearch.org/
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/primaryli
nks/victorian.html
Victorian Literary Project
http://www.lang.nagoyau.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Victorian.html
Victorian resources
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/bpn2f/vict
orian/bibliog.html
Queen Victoria
http://www.victorianstation.com/queen.h
tml
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
victoria.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/
Charles Darwin
http://users.aber.ac.uk/amg3/human.htm
http://www.aboutdarwin.com/
Mary Wollstonecraft
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/woll
.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
wollstonecraft.htm
William Godwin
http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/Online/www.en
glish.upenn.edu/jlynch/Frank/Godwin/bi
o.html
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/godwin/
Lord Byron
http://website.lineone.net/~ssiggeman/bio
graphy.html
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biogra
phy/lord.byron.asp
Voltaire
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/voltaire.html
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/darr
ow5.htm
William Wordsworth
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctoria
n/ww/bio.html
John Locke
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/locke.html
Thomas Paine
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/tpaine/paine
.htm
Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/rou
s.htm
Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.onlineliterature.com/shelley_percy/
Humphry Davy
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/k
narf/Davy/bio.html
Thomas Malthus
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/philosophy/malthus.html
James Watt
http://www.egr.msu.edu/~lira/supp/stea
m/wattbio.html
William Blake
http://www.online-literature.com/blake/
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/about
-blake.html
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/
stc.html
Robespierre
http://www.age-of-thesage.org/historical/biography/maximilien
_robespierre.html
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b
2robespierre.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/rob
espierre.html
Marat
http://seni.club.fr/life_of_marat.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_
Marat
Louis XVI
http://dromo.info/louis16bio.htm
http://www.geocities.com/frenchmonarch
/louisxvi/links.html
http://www.onlineliterature.com/hawthorne/
Marie Antoinette
http://www.marie-antoinette.org/
http://www.austrianmint.com/e/mahitxt.html
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/
Delta/6569/
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/M
arieAntoinette.html
John Wilkes
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.
asp?isbn=0300108710
The Jacobins
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/REV/RADICA
L.HTM
Mrs. Radcliff and Horace Walpole
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/radclif
fe.html
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/walpol
e.html
French Revolution
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist
7.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mo
dsbook13.html
King George III
http://britannia.com/history/monarchs/m
on55.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
georgeIII.htm
Edmund Burke
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/bur
ke.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_fig
ures/burke_edmund.shtml
Tomas de Quincey
http://www.queensu.ca/english/tdq/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/quincey.htm
Jacques Louis David
http://www.wga.hu/framese.html?/bio/d/david_j/biograph.html
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
disraeli.htm
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms
/dizzy.html
William Gladstone
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pms
/gladston.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PR
gladstone.htm
Emile Zola
http://www.online-literature.com/emilezola/
Nicholas Sadi Carnot
http://www-history.mcs.stand.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Carnot_S
adi.html
Karl Marx
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TU
marx.htm
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/ma
rx.html
http://www.indepthinfo.com/communistmanifesto/karl-marx.shtml
Friedrich Engels
http://www.indepthinfo.com/communistmanifesto/engels.shtml
Charlotte Bronte
http://www.onlineliterature.com/brontec/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bro
nte/cbronte/bronteov.html
Emily Bronte
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
Nathaniel Hawthorne
John Newton
http://www.johnnewton.org/
William Wilberforce
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RE
wilberforce.htm
Charles Dickens
http://www.onlineliterature.com/dickens/
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dic
kens/index.html
George Eliot
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm
http://www.onlineliterature.com/george_eliot/
Josephine Butler
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
butler.htm
Emily Bronte
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm
Anne Jemima Clough
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/W
clough.htm
The workhouses
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
Victorian Science
http://www.juliantrubin.com/schooldirec
tory/victorianscienceresources.html
Famous Victorians
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part07.html
http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Victo
rians/
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsi
tes/H/history/guide19/part08x.html
http://www.learningconnections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victoria
ns/handson/hands_7.html
AVOID PLAGIARISM…Citing:
• Remember…all good researchers cite any ideas they borrow from other sources.
• Use MLA Style for citing in this project.
• Make sure you keep track of all resources you may want to cite or reference. We have
blank Bibliography sheets you can use to keep track of the important information as you
research. Just ask at the counter.
• Use a note sheet for every major resource you use.
• Use KnightCite
Go to KnightCite http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
or Citation machine http://citationmachine.net/
for on-line tools that help you to cite properly using MLA Style.
•
All the detail you need to complete a correct Works Cited is on the Library website.
http://ancasterhigh.hwdsb.on.ca/Departments/Library
Go to Citation Help button and click on links to MLA help.
Go to Research Help…Notemaking…to find copies of good note-making
sheets.
Save one for each source you use.