Homework Resources for North Attleboro Students at Richards Memorial Library

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Homework and Teacher Resources

Homework Help

Biographies	Chaos Project
History and Social Studies including Countries	Science and Science Fair
Literature including Summer reading	Physical Ed. Homework
Local Schools	Bibliographic Help
Birthday Research and Holidays	General Homework Help and Search Engines
Great Websites for Kids (from Amer. Library Assoc.)	Presentation on using iBistro and other Databases

Different types of research require different sources. Sometimes you may be asked to use Primary Sources (defined here by Univ. of California at Santa Cruz.) World Book Advance will have primary source material as well. Our collection includes:

Literature: Plot summaries, collections of criticism, author biographies and interpretation collections. You can access Contemporary Literary Criticism through the Information Resources/Databases on the iBistro site or by clicking on Databases to the left. North Attleboro residents can access Literary Reference Center which is particularly good for literary criticism and summaries. Also check out these web directories. For Shakespeare try: Mr. Shakespeare. There is also a good site for public domain texts: The Literature Network.

Science: Full-text databases that include articles from Science and the Journal of American Medicine Association as well as the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science print set

History: Collections of speeches, historical atlases and books on specific time periods as well as full-text databases of articles and microfilm of newspapers.

Gale Databases now include Infotrac Kids (Elementary), Infotrac Junior (Middle School) and InfoTrac Student (High School.) These are good sources of electronic reference materials and magazine articles. They do not count as Internet sources. Instructions on using the databases from home are in the Reference and Databases section. Links to Internet sources for particular assignments will appear here during the year.

Also try World Book Online for maps, information on states and countries and much more. World Book Advanced (click on Advanced in upper right hand corner after you have typed in your barcode) has primary sources useful for high school and college assignments.

Our Suggested Links:

Biographies

Biographies: including Constitutional era, Afro-Americans, Women, Hispanic and other categories.
- Medieval Biographies

Science

Science Fair
USGS Science in your backyard site includes real-time data on water, drought, earthquake activity and other information. This links to the Massachusetts data.

Literature

Literary Reference Center
Librarian's Guide to the Internet Literature Index
Schmoop -- a site with resources about books (and more) including plot, theme, questions
Summer Reading Lists
Magical Realism genre

Local Schools

North Attleboro Public School System
North Attleboro High School Media Center
Tri-County Regional Vocational School
Bishop Feehan High School
King Philip Regional School System
MCAS Help: Dept. of Education site for 11th graders

General Help

General homework sites
Search Engines

History and Social Studies

Timelines of History
Native American Sites; Also check out the database Newsbank's Native American Resource Site by logging into the databases. There are maps, articles, images and more.
History: Check out Fordham's Internet History Sourcebook project for primary sources
- Ancient Civilizations
- Gilded Age; also use Infotrac Database to search for articles and Elibrary's Topics: United States History >> History by Period >> 1870-1890 Gilded Age
- Colonial History
- World War II Battles
- Depression and the New Deal
- Women's History
- US History-- from Spartacus site
Countries, States and Cities (including Spanish Country suggestions)

The Global Road Warrior, an online database, is a comprehensive social/cultural, travel, and international business resource, covering 175 countries and territories.
Collection of maps: current, historical, geographic, political and more.
Elevation, latitude and longitude for cities: placesnamed.com
Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Chaos

Chaos Project

Bibliographies

North Attleboro High School Media Center has a section that explains the bibliography and research process.
MLA Style: This is the preferred method for North Attleboro students. Click on Bibliography Styles, then MLA
Citation Machine: fill in the blanks and it formats the citation for you to copy

Birthday and Holidays