Grade 10 (ELA)

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Bloom's Literary Reference Online

Username: westlakehs
Password: westlakehs
NOTE: Author's only

Current Biography Illustrated

User ID: AYX93
Password: SSNY120880
NOTE: Current biographies only

Current Biography Illustrated offers the content of the printed monthly magazine Current Biography, produced by the H.W. Wilson Company, in searchable, electronic format. Readers will be able to find accurate, up-to-date biographies drawing information from newspaper articles, magazine articles, and books. Students and patrons can search by name, profession, place of origin, gender, ethnicity, birth/death dates, titles of works and key words for more than 25,000 articles and obituaries.

Grolier Encyclopedia

ID: westlakehs
Password: grolier

Gale Student Resources in Context

Password: empirelink

Student Resources in Context provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including:
  • 79,000 reference articles from acclaimed publications like American Decades
  • 15 million periodical and newspaper articles from the New York Times, U.S. News and World Report, and many others
  • 4,200 primary sources
  • 100,000 multimedia records, including charts, graphs, maps and tables
  • Video and audio content from NBC, NPR and many other respected sources

Gale Virtual Reference Library (eBooks)

Password: empirelink
Note: Literary and Historical

ProQuest

ID: NY0448H
Password: 18572

SIRS Discoverer

ID: NY0448H
Password: 18572
Whatever the topic, make research easy with books, magazines, videos, pictures, websites, and more.
Evaluate every website!
  • Who is the author or sponsor of the webpage?
  • Are they an expert on the subject?
  • What is the purpose of the webpage? Possible bias?
  • Is the webpage current?
  • Is this source better than another more reliable source?

Let's look at one together....
Google "J.K. Rowling" AND "Ambition"
http://famous-relationships.topsynergy.com/J_K_Rowling/Drive.asp

Would you use this for your research?
SEARCH STRATEGIES
  • Keyword(s) not question
  • Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
  • READ READ READ
  • Spelling counts!

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