9th Grade Research Project

1930s-40s

Requirements:

o  At least 35 3x5 BLANK index cards w/rubber band due in class: ______

o  Minimum 2 Source Cards

o  Minimum 25 Note Cards

o  Photo Peach Presentation ______

o  Works Cited Page (20% of overall grade) ______

Procedures:

1.  Choose a major event or influential person from the list provided to you in class. No two students may research the same topic!

2.  Use available resources to find the facts you will need to write your paper.

3.  As you find likely sources and information, start creating source and note cards (follow examples given in class).

4.  Begin putting cards in logical order to appear in your Photo Peach project.

5.  Your Works Cited page must be typed! No hand written papers will be accepted.

6.  Submit cards with your final project. Projects will not be accepted without all note and source cards. Cards must be rubber-banded together and placed in the following order:

o  title card with name and topic

o  all source cards

o  note cards in order in which they appear in your presentation

9th Grade Research Project Topics

  1. The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
  2. F.D.R.
  3. Eleanor Roosevelt
  4. General Dwight D. Eisenhower
  5. General Douglas MacArthur
  6. Rosie the Riveter/ Women on the Homefront
  7. War Bonds
  8. D-Day
  9. The Tuskegee Airmen
  10. Japanese Internment Camps
  11. Hollywood Anti-Nazi League/War Propaganda Films
  12. J. Robert Oppenheimer/The Manhattan Project
  13. The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb/Hiroshima (effects)
  14. The Nuremburg Trials
  15. The Cold War
  16. House of Un-American Activities Committee/The Red Scare
  17. The Great Migration
  18. The Baby Boom
  19. Edward R. Murrow
  20. Lou Gehrig
  21. Jackie Robinson
  22. Joe DiMaggio
  23. Satchel Paige
  24. Babe Didrikson
  25. The Women’s Baseball League
  26. The Rise of Television

27.  The release of The Wizard of Oz

28.  The release of Gone with the Wind

29.  The release of Casablanca

30.  The release of Citizen Kane

  1. Marlene Dietrich
  2. Vivien Leigh
  3. Bette Davis
  4. Judy Garland
  5. Katharine Hepburn
  6. Bing Crosby
  7. Humphrey Bogart

How to Prepare Source Cards and Note Cards

PROCEDURES FOR SOURCE CARDS

1.  Always create a source card BEFORE you take notes.

2.  Label each source card by number, top center of the card (1, 2, 3, etc.)

3.  Source cards must be DOUBLE SPACED.

4.  Use the Guide to Research at Ridley High School (Works Cited – Pages 6-12) for the proper format for these cards.

5.  Source cards contain all the information needed for the Works Cited page.

Sample Source Cards

(Article in a Magazine) (Web site with no author)

PROCEDURES FOR NOTE CARDS

1.  For each note card that you create, be sure to provide the appropriate source number, top center of the card.

2.  Write the page number from which you found the fact at the bottom center of the card.

3.  Make sure note cards indicate what is quoted and what is paraphrased.

4.  Before you leave the library, make sure you have written a page number at the bottom of each note card. If you are using a source without page numbers, you must include the author’s name or title at the bottom of the card.

5.  Be neat, and pay attention to formatting details.

EACH NOTE CARD SHOULD CONTAIN:
1.  the source number at the top of card (centered)
2.  a note (one of three types)
3.  only ONE idea
4.  the author’s name and page number (bottom) / WHAT TO NOTE:
1.  Any information that supports the thesis
o  facts
o  statistics
o  definitions
2.  statements by authorities on the subject

Types Of Note Cards

1.  PARAPHRASE note cards

2.  DIRECT QUOTATION note cards

3.  SUMMARY note cards

Paraphrase Note Cards
Use a PARAHRASE NOTE most of the time. This involves putting another's ideas into your own words.

Steps To Follow

1.  Ask yourself the author's purpose and/or main idea.

2.  Put the idea into your own words.

3.  Read what you have written to be sure that it reflects the author's idea.

Direct Quotation Note Cards
Use a DIRECT QUOTATION NOTE when the author has phrased something particularly well, when the words express a meaning as no other words could, or when an authority has concisely stated an opinion relevant to your topic. YOU MAY USE NO MORE THAN THREE DIRECT QUOTATIONS IN YOUR ENTIRE PAPER!

Steps To Follow

  1. Copy the quotation exactly.
  2. Check to make sure you have copied all spelling and punctuation exactly.
  3. Make sure that the section of the work you quote does not need the surrounding material to keep the same meaning.
  4. Be sure to identify the speaker.

Summary Note Cards
Use a SUMMARY NOTE to record in your own words the essence of a passage without examples and explanations. Summary notes are usually for less important or repetitive information.

Steps To Follow
1. Ask yourself the author's purpose and/or main idea.

2. Write that idea in a few words.

Sample Note Cards:

Works Cited Page Requirements

  The Works Cited page is numbered as a continuation of your paper; there must be a proper header in the upper right corner.

  The title of the page is Works Cited - not Endnotes, Bibliography, Citations, etc. Place the words Works Cited at the top center of the page. You do not need to italicize them.

  Double space everything.

  List entries in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author. If no author is listed, use the first word of the title.

  Entries are NOT numbered.

  For each new entry begin even with the left margin. Indent all other lines of the same entry half an inch.

  Italicize the titles of books, newspapers, magazines, and reference works.

  Use quotation marks around shorter works that appear in longer ones, such as an article that appears in a magazine or newspaper or an entry in an encyclopedia.

  Separate author, title, and publication information with periods and two spaces. Place a period at the end of each entry.

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Smith 4

Works Cited

Irving, Washington. “The Devil and Tom Walker.” Adventures in American Literature. Eds.

Francis Hodgins and Kenneth Silverman. New York: Harcourt, 1980. 106-113. Print.

“Joyce Carol Oates Biography.” Biography.com. A&E Television Network, 2009. Web. 6

Apr. 2010. <http://www.biography.com/articles/JoyceCarol-Oates-9339532>.

“Running on Empty.” The New Yorker May 2004: 35-42. Print.

Zeppo, Heather, ed. Women Writers of the Short Story. Englewood Cliffs: Spectrum Prentice, 1980. Print.