ENG 3U1 VICTORIAN RESEARCH PROJECT
Objective Your assignment consists of several parts:
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You are to research a given topic and create your own point-form notes while using three different sources. Specifically, you are asked to use a published book, an internet website/article and an encyclopedia (hard copy or on-line).
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You are to evaluate your sources by determining which information seems credible and reliable. You will write up an evaluation in one to two pages of formal writing.
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You are to use your research to prepare and deliver an interesting presentation. It must present the three most important details about your person or issue. You will be quizzed on the information that will be presented.
Topics:
Queen Victoria
Industrial Revolution
Charles Darwin
The Role of Religion
Education
Entertainment
George Eliot
Victorian Languages
Industrial Revolution and its Social Effect
Life in Rural England
Life in Urban England
Justice, Prison System and Police
Victorian Hypocrisy
Newspapers and Advertising
Robert Browning
Workhouse

Notemaking
Use the template sheets available
Getting started: finding Quality information on your topic
To access these sheets…go to the Library website (Google Ancaster High
Library) or http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2/ and go to
Library Lessons…English.
Access points for information
– to search for materials in our school library collection
From here http://10.155.3.34/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=506#foc us
From home http://hip.hwdsb.on.ca/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=50
6#focus
http://www.questia.com/
See the Introduction to Questia document for help.
Daily Life in Elizabethan England
– to find Journal articles,
Magazine articles and
Newspaper archives, http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/services/virtuallibrar y/
ID: secondary
Pw: library
Some databases that may help
Directories
-these give lists of websites on topics
DMOZ – Elizabethan http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Drama/
Elizabethan/
DMOZ –Elizabethan theatres http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Architecture/Buildi ng_Types/Theaters_and_Cinemas/Elizabethan
_Theaters/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Librarian’s Index http://lii.org/
Awesome Library

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Academic Info http://www.academicinfo.net/
INVISIBLE WEB
-these tools search deeper into the Web than Google
MagPortal http://MagPortal.com/
Find articles www.findarticles.com
Google Scholar http://scholar.google.ca/
YouTube
Quintura http://www.quintura.com/
Cuil http://www.cuil.com/
Alltheweb http://www.alltheweb.com/
Altavista http://www.altavista.com/
Lycos http://www.lycos.com/
Mooter http://www.mooter.com/
Hot Bot http://www.hotbot.com/
Excite http://www.excite.com/
Bing http://www.bing.com/ http://www.youtube.com/index?gl=US&hl=en
Use Google and click on IMAGES at the top.

Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com/
Gigablast http://www.gigablast.com/
Mamma http://www.mamma.com/
Webcrawler http://www.webcrawler.com/
Clusty http://clusty.com/
Ixquick http://www.ixquick.com/
Turbo10 http://www.turbo10.com/
Complete planet http://aip.completeplanet.com/
Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/
Mnenomap http://www.mnemo.org/
Silobreaker http://www.silobreaker.com/
Carrot cluster http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search
Duck Duck Go http://duckduckgo.com/
Twurdy http://www.twurdy.com/search.php
Don’t forget…when you use material from websites you need to critically evaluate the site.
(see the Virtual Library under the Encyclopedias Tab)
http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/services/virtuallibrary/

Special Reference Materials:
Literary Criticism/ George Eliot http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=eli-26
Directory of Victorian Resources http://www.academicinfo.net/histukvictorian.html
Virtual Victorians (includes a day in the life feature) http://www.victorians.org.uk/ http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide19/par t09.html
The Victorians http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindex.htm
(elementary site, good info) http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/victoria.htm
(elementary site, but good info) http://victorian.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/sites/links.html
http://www.victorianlinks.com/ www.geocities.com/victorianlace10/chrono.html
http://www.deltacom-design.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/Victorians/ http://u.cc.utah.edu/~tsk2/victcult.html
Victorian Web (has many links)

http://www.victorianweb.org/
Children in Victorian England http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/flash.shtml
Workhouses http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/
History trail on Victorian England http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/preview.shtml
School History site with many links to Victorian England http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/primarylinks/victorian.html
Victorian Costumes http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/costumeov.html
http://www.fashion-era.com/the_victorian_era.htm
Victorian Timeline http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide19/par t01.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/scotland/victorians.shtml
http://www.victorianstation.com/timeline.htm
http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/nielsen/victime.html
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide19/par t08x.html

Famous Victorians http://www.learningconnections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/victorians/handson/hands_7.html
Queen Victoria http://www.victorianstation.com/queen.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRvictoria.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~sbishop100/
George Eliot http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/eliotov.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gelliot.htm
Charles Darwin http://users.aber.ac.uk/amg3/human.htm
http://www.aboutdarwin.com/
Victorian education http://www.logicmgmt.com/1876/educate.htm
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vschool.ht
ml http://www.gober.net/victorian/reports/schools.html
http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html#work
Victorian fashion http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/victorian.html#clothing
Workhouses and orphanages & child labor http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/ http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.main.htm
New inventions of Industrial revolution http://www.bergen.org/technology/indust.html
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor/ind-rev-open.htm
http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/

http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/irev.html
Industrial revolution http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook14.html
http://members.aol.com/mhirotsu/kevin/trip2.html
http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.
html
Working class http://www.geocities.com/couple_colour/Worker/
Middle class (bourgeoisie) http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/middle_classe s_01.shtml
Aristocracy http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/wojtczak/richwomen.html
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Late_Victorian_Age.htm
http://www.ehs.org.uk/society/pdfs/Morris%207a.pdf
Role of women http://www.victoriaspast.com/LifeofVictorianWoman/LifeofVictori anWoman.html
Victorian morality http://www.answers.com/topic/victorian-morality http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/V/Vi/Victorian_ morality.htm
Religion: Calvinism/Puritanism/Atheism http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/altholz/a2.html
http://www.thecaveonline.com/APEH/calvinTULIP.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/evangel2.html
http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/puritan.html
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/religion/relov.htm
l http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/atheism.html

http://www.victoriaspast.com/FrontPorch/victorianera.htm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/ http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/marx.html
The history of the commons http://www.wpcc.org.uk/HISTORICALINFORMATIONhistory.ht
m
Colonialization, imperialism and the British Empire http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/Empire.html
http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/marxism/articles/f114-hoi.htm
Victorian Writers; Dickens; Browning; Tennyson; Hardy; Carroll;
Rossettis (Poet) http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/websi tes.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jhardy.htm
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/victoria.htm
http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html#1865
Politicians and political parties http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/politics.htm
1890s decline of Puritanism http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv4-30
Newspapers and journalism http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/journalists.htm
Creating Good PowerPoint Presentations:
PowerPoint help!!! www.actden.com/pp/ http://einstein.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/csc101/powerpoint/p pt.html
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/

www.bitbetter.com/powertips.htm
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/powerpoint.html
Citing
AVOID PLAGIARISM…Citing:
 Remember…all good researchers cite any ideas they borrow from other sources.
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Use MLA Style for citing in this project.
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Make sure you keep track of all resources you may want to cite or reference. We have blank Notemaking sheets you can use to keep track of the important information as you research. Just ask at the counter.
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Use a note sheet for every major resource you use.
 All the detail you need to complete a correct Works Cited is on the school’s website. http://schools.hwdsb.on.ca/ancasterhigh/library-2/
Click on the Citation Help link for help with MLA
Try on-line Citation help software:
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.