Research Projects & Assignments 2008 - 2009

The standard writing rubric for CHS may be found here

Writing the paper

Most teachers will expect you to:

• Write your paper in a modest size of print (12 is good)

• Use a simple font such as "Times New Roman"

• Align to the Left.

• Indent the beginning of a paragraph

• Use double spacing

Ms. Ascher - Civil War links

World Book

The Civil War Homepage letters and diaries, as well as links to battles, documents, photos, official records and more

Eyewitness to History: Civil War some personal accounts from that period in U.S. history

Battle of Vicksburg

Battle of Antietam

Ms. Bynog - MCAS

MCAS

Ms. Collins - World History

CIA World Factbook

Country Profiles (BBC News)

Country Studies (Library of Congress)

First World War

History on the Net

Spartacus_First World War Weapons

History Learning Site_ New Weapons

World War I

Spartacus_WWI_ Mustard Gas

Inventors

Ms. Collins

Library eResources:

Biography Resource Center

World Book Student

General Websites:

Everything in Native American History: Native American Tribes

Legends of America: Native American Tribes

Map of the Plains Indian Tribes

Native Americans (Crystalinks)

Native Visions of the Natural World (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

New Perspectives on the West: People

People of the Nez Perce Conflict

Significant Native American Leaders

The Texas Kiowa Indians

Wikipedia

Mrs. Knupp: ESL Links

All Grammar

Self Study: English Grammar

ESL Cafe

Tenses

English Page: Verbs

Bradley's: Verbs

Prepositions

English Page: Prepositions

Will/Going to

Better English

Better English: Decisions

Better English: Simple Future

ESOE: Will or Going to

Reading

Interlink Language Centers

Whatever the product (a paper, a poster, a PowerPoint presentation, a web page ...)
a useful guide to doing research may be found here.

You must cite the sources you used to find your information.
There is a Citations guide to help you correctly cite the sources most commonly used in CHS Library. 
This guide is based on the MLA rules. If your teacher requires you to use APA rules, look at this site.