Below you will find links to online resources that have been chosen by Ms. Martin to help with your assignments.
Proper Referencing
- Citation Maker (MLA)
- Sample MLA Works Cited (including List of Images Used)
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a works cited is in alphabetical order, with hanging indents
- For any photos you use in a PowerPoint, pamphlet or other publication, remember to number the photo in the bottom right-hand corner, and create a separate numbered List of Images Used. Do NOT cite Google Images – cite the page where the photo is posted!
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Poets & Poetry
Before you get started, download the Research Notes Worksheet to keep track of all of the research you collect! Save a copy to your G drive.
Recommended Resources
When you’re looking to see what books we have in the library, search our Online Catalogue. In general, the books on poets are in the 800 section (Literature) – Canadian poets 819.15; American poets – 811.52; British poets 821.7-822.
Research databases
- Literature Resource Center
- Canada in Context
- Gale Virtual Reference Library – houses all of our eBooks
- Britannica School (to access from home, this one has a different password from InfoTrac – see Ms. Martin)
- Salem’s Great Lives from History (20th Century) ~ all biographies from the 20th century (1900 and later)
Web sites:
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Poets.org — The Academy of American Poets ~ gives you poet biographies and selections of their poetry
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BBC’s Poetry Season ~ lots of information about poetry and poets, including this A-Z list
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Canadian Poetry — University of Toronto Library ~ click on the list for Contemporary Canadian poets, or 19th Century Canadian poets
Great Gatsby
Recommended resources:
Research databases & eBooks
- Artemis Literary Sources – includes the Literature Resource Center (InfoTrac) ~ biographies, poems, social contexts, and criticisms. Just type in Great Gatsby.
- Salem eBooks ~ full-text access (with same “remote password” as InfoTrac) to:
- Great Lives from History: the 20th Century encyclopedia ~ biographies
- Critical Insights: The Great Gatsby ~ this eBook includes essays that provide the reader with cultural, historical, comparative, and critical contexts for understanding Gatsby. Other information includes the cultural and historical contexts of Fitzgerald’s work, critical overviews, and a series of critical readings that focus on narrative style, color symbolism, and character analysis among other topics
- Critical Insights: the American Dream ~ see the chapter by James Nagel on The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac) ~ houses all of our eBooks
- Britannica School (to access from home, this one has a different password from InfoTrac – see Ms. Martin)
Web sites:
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Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s ~ topics include Prohibition, Women, Immigration, The Scopes Trial
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Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921-1929 ~ scroll down to the “Introduction” and other links
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National Museum of American History (from the Smithsonian) ~ try searching your specific topic or typing in 1920s
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Jazz: a History of America’s Music (from PBS; based on the documentary by Ken Burns) ~ more than just information on the music (try clicking on Jazz in Time) for more about the “roaring 20s”
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Temperance & Prohibition (from Ohio State University)