Handout about topics. Student 1 ______________Class Period _ Student 2 ________________ Work in groups of 1 or 2 only Of Mice

Handout about topics

Student 1 ______________________ Class Period _______________Student 2 ______________________Work in groups of 1 or 2 onlyOf Mice and MenJohn SteinbeckThe Great DepressionHoover DamThe Dust BowlCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC)Empire State BuildingStock Market CrashFranklin Roosevelt (FDR)Mt RushmoreNew DealWorks Progress Administration (WPA)California during the Great DepressionTennessee Valley Authority (TVA)Make a 7 slide presentation about your topic.Slide 1 should include your Name(s), Period, English 3, Mr Edwards, DateEach slide 2 through 6 should include:A picture and a caption (with an interesting fact) about your topicSlide 7 should be a Works Cited page, with your sources. Use the Library’s databases, Gale Powersearch. Copy the Source Citation into your Works Cited page.File save as… -> File Name: your names(s) Period topic

Save as type: Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt):When finished, email your presentation to your partner and to:[email protected]

Nimitz Home -> Library -> Databases -> Gale Powersearch

• Select Gale PowerSearch

Navigate to an article in the Library’s Database

Nimitz Home -> Library -> Databases ->Gale Powersearch ->

Check this box to getonly results with images

Type your topic here

• Select the books tab

• You will eliminate results with current events

• Select a source with a picture you can use

• Scroll down near the bottom and find the Source Citation

• Copy and paste the source information into your Works Cited page

Works Cited• Kaplan, Ruth. "Hoover Dam." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I.

Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 4. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. 161-162. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Mar. 2011.

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The Hoover Dam

• Jimmy Hoffa and Michael Corleone• English 3• Mr Edwards• March 4, 2011

Visiting Hoover Dam

• If you are in Las Vegas you can visit Hoover Dam and take a Dam Tour

Make 5 slides similar to this

Email: [email protected]

Reminders:Did you do the following?

file save as… Microsoft Powerpoint 97alphabetize your Works Cited Pagecenter “Works Cited” left align citations

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Handout about topics. Student 1 ______________________Class Period _______________ Student 2 ______________________ Work in groups of 1 or 2 only Of Mice

Handout about topics. Student 1 ______________Class Period _ Student 2 ________________ Work in groups of 1 or 2 only Of Mice