ENGLISH 10
ONLINE DATABASES – Can be accessed from
school and home: http://opac.aacps.org
MAGAZINES/NEWSPAPERS
DATABASE DESCRIPTION
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
EBSCOHOST On-line database that accesses
magazine abstracts and full text
articles.
NEWSBANK On-line database which accesses full
text newspaper articles.
NEWS FILE
DATABASE
ENG 10 Unit 4 Periodical Search
ENG 10 Unit 4 Periodical Search
ON-LINE ENCYCLOPEDIAS
DESCRIPTION
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
WORLD BOOK ONLINE
Encyclopedia World Book
OVERVIEW OF ALL RESEARCH
TOPICS
GROLIER ON-LINE
Includes Encyclopedia
Americana, Grolier
Multimedia, New Book of
Knowledge, Lands and
Peoples, and American the
Beautiful
OVERVIEW OF ALL RESEARCH
TOPICS
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SUBJECT SEARCH - GENERAL
DISCOVERING
COLLECTION
History Resource
Center: World
History Resource
Center: US
LITERATURE
RESOURCE
CENTER
ABC-CLIO
Includes keyword search,
person search, classroom
topics, timeline search,
multimedia gallery, literature
search and dictionary.
ENG 10 Rome; Caesar;
Assassinations
(Unit 3/Days 12 &13/pg.27)
History Resource Center:
World is a comprehensive
collection of award-winning
reference, full-text articles
from leading scholarly
publications, an array of
primary sources, and images,
maps and charts.
History Resource Center:
provides integrated access to
over 4,000 historical
(primary) documents, articles
from more than 30 reference
titles, and over 110 full-text
journal covering themes,
events, individuals and
periods in U.S. history from
pre-Colonial times to the
present
Literary topics including
criticism, author biographies
ENG 10 Rome; Caesar;
Assassinations
(Unit 3/Days 12 &13/pg.27)
American History & Govt.;
World History- Ancient to
Modern
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ENG 10 Literary Criticism
(Unit 3/Day12/pg.23)
ENG 10 Decade Research – Great
Depression
(Unit 1/Day 9/pg.15)
ENG 10 Crucible -McCarthyism
(Unit 4)
ENG 10 Literary Criticism
(Unit 3/Day12/pg.23)
ENG 10 Decade Research – Great
Depression
(Unit 1/Day 9/pg.15)
SIRS ONLINE
DATABASES
PROQUEST
HISTORICAL
NEWSPAPERS
General reference database
designed to include SIRS
Discoverer, Discover
WebFind, SIRS
Researcher, SKS
WebSelect (formerly SIRS
NetSelect), SIRS
Government Reporter,
SIRS Renaissance, and
SIRS Interactive
Citizenship.
Online resource for study
of historical events and
more
ENG 10 Rome; Caesar;
Assassinations
(Unit 3/Days 12 &13/pg.27
ENG 10 Literary Criticism
(Unit 3/Day12/pg.23)
ENG 10 Literary Criticism
(Unit 3/Day12/pg.23)
ENG 10 Crucible -McCarthyism
(Unit 4)
HOMEWORK CENTER
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ELECTRONIC
DATABASES
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