1. Click on the tab that says “grades 5 and above.” Enter your search term. You will be offered encyclopedia articles, reference books, and magazine articles. Also, take note of the additional websites to which you are referred.
3. Nettrekker — http://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoor/ See Mr. Barnett for username and password. Nettrekker is a safe and reliable way to search the Internet. It offers sites written at your grade level.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia also offers students another board online reference work. Use this resource only if you find another source that verifies its information. (Note: that is a piece of advice you should follow for all reference works).
WorldBook – to access World Book locally on your computer, simply click on the oval blue icon at the bottom of your dock. If it asks you to register, just click on later – click “no” if it asks you to update.
1. The Worldbook Encyclopedia – REF 030 WOR
2. The Biographical Dictionary of Black Americans – REF 920 KRA
3. Encyclopedia of World Biography
4. Contemporary Heroes and Heroines – REF 920.009 CON
Books – General
1. We Shall Overcome – 323.1 FIN
2. The 1963 March on Washington – 323.1 MIL
3. The Montgomery Bus Boycott – 323.1 MIL
4. Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides 323.1 MIL
5. American Voices From the Civil Rights Movement – 323.1 STR
6. Struggling for Civil Rights – 323.119 FIT
7. Struggling for Civil Rights – 323.119 FIT
8. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – 344.73 MIL
9. Going to School During the Civil Rights Movement 379.2. KOE
10. The Little Rock Nine – 379.2 MIL
11. Extraordinary African-Americans – 920 ALT (Students, this is the a great resource).
Biographies are in the “92” section of the library.