EIGHTH GRADE

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Current Events

Two databases are recommended (see table above for links and passwords):

• Gale Databases (for magazines, journals, and Opposing Viewpoints)
  • Select Student Edition, Junior Edition, and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
  • Click on "Search" to bring up Basic Search screen which allows you to search for your terms as a Subject, Keyword, or in the entire document.
  • Note that a Subject search is the narrowest (with fewest results), Keyword will give more results, and a search in the entire document will give the most results. You may have to try more than one to give you the best results.
  • Advanced Search is also available for Boolean searching (using and, or, not)
  • Click on "More search options" and check "full-text" and date limitation if so desired.
  • Features: In magazines, you can limit to full-text with images. Find related subjects in magazine articles. Multimedia includes NPR programming.
  • To print article: See "print preview" in Tool Bar box
  • Source citation is found at end of magazine articles
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Classical Mythology

Greek Mythology Today -- Despite the cartoon figure that introduces this website, there is some good information on monsters in this site. From the home page, go to Homework Help and then choose Beasts and Creatures. Included in this site are the Furies, the Giants, Sirens, Medusa, Pegasus, Cerberus, Griffin, Arachne, Minotaur, Sphinx, Cyclopes, Chimaera, Triton, Hydra, Scylla, Centaurs, and Python.

Bulfinch's Mythology -- A searchable source of Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable.

Mythweb -- Stories of Greek gods and heroes taken from Homer's Iliad, Odyssey, and the Library of Apollodorus.

Encyclopedia Mythica -- An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend, searchable by keyword.

Windows to the Universe -- World mythology, including classical mythology

The Perseus Project (below) is quite extensive and can take a little while to search through the layers, so use it when you have a good block of time.

Perseus Project -- Includes a wealth of information on Ancient Greece, including Thomas Martin Overview of Archaic and Classical Greek History, Livy's History of Rome, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Horace's Odes, Vergil's Aeneid, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Thucydides' Histories, works of Aristotle and Aristophanes, summary of Apollodorus's Library, complete works of Christopher Marlowe (Elizabethan playwright), and many other translations of Greek and Latin works.

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Election

Procon.org -- Compare the candidates' views on the issues in the 2008 election.

Politico.com -- "... journalism that insists on the primacy of facts over ideology"

Election Center 2008 and Student One-Sheet: Political Issues -- Two sources from cnn.com that discuss issues in the campaign and the candidates' views.

Engage 08: Budget Hero -- From American Public Media, this is an interactive game that lets you manage the federal budget. You can also find out information about budgetary issues and where the candidates stand on those issues.

Select A Candidate -- Also from American Public Media, take a survey and see how your views compare to the candidates' views on the issues.

270toWin.com -- 2008 presidential election interactive map and history of the Electoral College

The Living Room Candidate -- From the Museum of the Moving Image, watch presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2008.

Issues and Controversies in American History -- search term: Election 2008 [id = FooteSchool ; password = foote]

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center database (in Thomson Gale Power Search) -- search for the subject: Political Campaigns. Then click on the subject link "political campaigns" to bring up narrower terms and related terms that might be helpful. [password = schools]

 

 

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