Issues in Christianity and Judaism

• Anti-Semitism (CCOT)
• Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
• Dietary Laws
• Israeli/Palestinian sovereignty
• The Diaspora
• Non-practicing Jews (ex. Russian immigrants to Israel)
• Orthodox/Reform/Conservative (major differences and similarities)
• Role of women
• Zionism
• Abortion
• Catholic/Orthodox schism
• Gay marriage
• Missionary work (nursing, teaching orders)
• Mormonism
• Protestant family tree
• Regional issues (Africa or Asia or Latin America)
• Role of women
• Science and Religion

ALERT! We are experiencing some access issues with the database page. Please complete this questionnaire from home (if you have not already done so)! If you cannot access the database page via the normal link, please use this alternative link. 

Since you are expected to use the current newspapers for your research, I strongly suggest the National Newspapers database for your research. 

Increasingly, newspapers are requiring steep subscription fees. You have access to most of them through our NCHS databses - if National Newspapers isn't working for you, then use NewsStand. It is more comprehensive. With the databases, you can cross-search publications simultaneously. It saves you a lot of time. 

Please note the left sidebar - there is a list of conservative and liberal publications. Under the "other Media" category that follows the liberal and conservative listings, PBS, NPR and BBC are all liberal. FOX is conservative.

Other useful databases include:

• Global Issues in Context (non-western point-of-view)
• Opposing Viewpoints in context (controversial issues, as seen from both sides)
• Roper iPoll (public opinion survey database - excellent for analyzing change over time - particularly in the last 10 years) 

For background information on historical events mentioned in your articles, please refer to 

• History in Context and 
• ABC-CLIO

Remember to keep track of your sources in EasyBib! All you need to do to access your account is to log into your Google Apps account, then you are in!

  

Please feel free to get in touch if you are stuck!

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Monotheism (Religion & Politics)

Ms. Macomber's assignment

Topics:

• The Religious Response to 9/11
• Islamism (The idea that Islam is both a religious and political system)
• American, European and Middle Eastern Muslims
• Religion and the Iraq War
• The Papacy Science and Religion
• Arts and Religion 
• Jews, Judaism and Israel
• Warfare and Ethics
• Church and State (You can discuss the United States however since this is a Global History course I want you to focus your attention on nations other than the U.S.)

ALERT! We are experiencing some access issues with the database page. Please complete this questionnaire from home (if you have not already done so)! If you cannot access the database page via the normal link, please use this alternative link. 

Since you are expected to use the current newspapers for your research, I strongly suggest the National Newspapers database for your research. 

Increasingly, newspapers are requiring steep subscription fees. You have access to most of them through our NCHS databses - if National Newspapers isn't working for you, then use NewsStand. It is more comprehensive. With the databases, you can cross-search publications simultaneously. It saves you a lot of time. 

Please note the left sidebar - there is a list of conservative and liberal publications. Under the "other Media" category that follows the liberal and conservative listings, PBS, NPR and BBC are all liberal. FOX is conservative.

Other useful databases include:

• Global Issues in Context (non-western point-of-view)
• Opposing Viewpoints in context (controversial issues, as seen from both sides)
• Roper iPoll (public opinion survey database - excellent for analyzing change over time - particularly in the last 10 years) 

For background information on historical events mentioned in your articles, please refer to 

• History in Context and 
• ABC-CLIO

Remember to keep track of your sources in EasyBib! All you need to do to access your account is to log into your Google Apps account, then you are in!

  

Please feel free to get in touch if you are stuck!

Facebook

Twitter

Text 61KNOWMOR0 - that last number is a zero

Google Chat

1920s

Mr. Staffaroni's assignment

How to create a lesson plan

Destiny has a plethora of digital content Decades, 1920s, and the actual station name will work.

Don't forget to download the Destiny Quest app! Basic --> Library URL: http://destiny.newcanaan.k12.ct.us -->Connect --> New Canaan High School --> log in with your personal NCPS log in User Name & Password  (the one you use to log in to a school computer).

Databases:  

ABC-CLIO: American History

History in Context

SIRS Decades

Historical Newspapers

Time  Magazine archive

Life Magazine (photos) online

Library of Congress American Memory

National Archives

Annotated Bibliography:

Annotated works cited/bibliography format

In an annotated works cited/bibliography, each annotation (150 words or less) is evaluative. The CRAAP test should help guide your evaluation (example of an annotation). Link to rubric.

Currency

Relevance

Accuracy

Authority

Purpose, or point of view

Other elements to consider:

• Authority
• Purpose
• Scope (length, depth, breadth)
• Audience
• Viewpoint
• Sources
• Conclusion
• Features
• Comparison
• Reliability
• Currency
• Relevance

Junior Research Paper - The Economy

Great piece on NPR this morning
Here is the article that prompted the interview

Remember what we said about keywords? Avoid the word "panic" in your primary source searches, and look up info on banking, Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commission, presidents, cabinet members, legislators, Supreme Court cases, justices, etc...

Use the online catalog, Destiny, to find resources, including ebooks and websites.

Hands-down: The MOST POPULAR resources for this project are the American Eras/American Decades (REF 973) reference books. They are organized, more or less, according to PERSIA+GT, which makes life uber-easy for you guys. They are AVAILABLE ONLINE! You can access them under the Digital Resources tab in Destiny, the Gale Virtual Reference Library database and in a more erratic fashion, in the History in Context database. 


Don't forget to download the Destiny Quest app! Basic --> Library URL: http://destiny.newcanaan.k12.ct.us -->Connect --> New Canaan High School --> log in with your personal NCPS log in User Name & Password  (the one you use to log in to a school computer)

Also check out the Timetables of American History (REF 973) and the Timetables of World History (REF 902).
For twentieth century folks, use the Day By Day (REF 909) series - particularly if you are interested in what happened on a particular day.

Databases:

• Annals of American History
• Roper iPoll (1935 and later)
• ABC-CLIO: American History, American Government
• Historical Newspapers (after 1760 and up)
• History in Context: United States
• Academic ASAP
• For twentieth century, you can also use SIRS Decades, which is a primary source database - very nice

Great tips and suggestions from students (still migrating this from Moodle)

ML