Year 9 HistoryLibrary Research

The next two lessons…

• The role of the library

• Library website and Year 9 History assignment help page

• Inquiry• Developing focus questions to answer an inquiry question.

• Information seeking process• Locating print and digital resources

• Creating, selecting and using search terms

• Information literacy• Exploring a text – reading overviews/abstracts, skim and

scan, identifying main points

• Close reading/identifying relevance of information related to focus questions

The role of the library

The Library Website

Go to

http://libguides.terrace.qld.edu.au/home

Bookmark this website

Locating print and digital sources

Locating Information - Library Website

• Print Books – Frozen collection

• Suggested databases

• Keywords searching

• Helpful weblinks

• Scanned articles

• Ebooks – Terrace and State Library

• Video – Library catalogue and Clickview

Background Reading

• Books

• Online Encyclopaedias – Encyclopaedia Brittanica and Wikipedia

• Databases – Library Webs

• Websites

• Video

• Use the Library website (libguides)!

Inquiry

Developing focus questions to answer an inquiry question.

Your Inquiry Question

How did political thinkers contribute to changes in how Americans were

governed?

Focus Questions

• We use focus questions to make sure that we pay attention to the inquiry question that forms the basis of the task.

• Develop more focus questions as we delve deeper into the task

• Class work and background reading will determine your initial focus questions

Suggested Focus Questions

• Begin with the three focus questions from the Research Booklet:• Who was the political thinker?

• What were their ideas and actions about government? How significant were their ideas?

• Create your own focus question based on your chosen person and their contribution to the American Revolution. For example:

What principles did Jefferson embrace in the Declaration of Independence?

What progressive ideas were included in the Declaration of Independence?

Creating, selecting and using search terms

Keyword search terms

• See keyword search strategies and examples from Library website

• Start with broad search terms

• Use keywords from the inquiry question and focus questions. For example:• “Thomas Jefferson” AND “Declaration of Independence”

• “Thomas Jefferson” AND liberty

• Use your chosen keyword search terms: in the index/contents page of books, Terrace Oliver catalogue, databases, and other library catalogues.

The Library Catalogue

Using the catalogue

• Type a simple search term into the catalogue now

• “American Revolution”

• Note the results

• Try another search term from the Year 9 History libguide page

Use a range of databasesExplore the recommended databases at Terrace –

see Year 9 History libguide page

Why Not Google?

Library Webs

• Follow the breadcrumb trail on the Year 9 History page

OR

• Enter a search term in the search box

• For example: “American War of Independence”

Britannica School

• Search for “American Revolution”

• Search for Benjamin Franklin

Exploring a text – reading overviews/abstracts, skim and scan, identifying main points

• An abstract is a self-contained, short, summarising statement that describes a larger work. It may also contain the scope and content of the work.

• Example: http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=spectrum&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3Dtho Question: After reading the abstract, do you consider it relevant to learning about Thomas Paine’s contributions to the American Revolution?

Abstract:

Skimming:

• Looking at the overall format of the text:• Headings and sub-headings• Maps and tables• Pictures• Links

• Reading the key parts of the written text:• Introduction, body, conclusion

• First sentence in each paragraph

Example: http://www.nps.gov/revwar/about_the_revolution/thomas_paine.html

Question: Which paragraphs will contain more than biographical information?

Scanning:

Scanning helps you establish where in a book or article specific information is located through the use of key words

Scanning a book:

Steps:

1) Read the title

2) Open the contents page and note chapter headings, list of diagrams/illustrations, bibliography and index

3) Read chapter headings to see if they contain the information you require

4) Search the index for key words. (NB: If you draw a blank, move on to another book)

5) When you find relevant information apply the skimming strategy.

Scanning an article on a website:

• Search for key words within the text.

• Contextualise - Read the sentence the key word is contained in and at least one sentence before and after that sentence

• Try Command + F

• Try Control + F

Identifying main point/idea:

In a well structured paragraph the main idea should be the first sentence and should clearly state what the reader can expect to find in the paragraph.

Task

• According to Robert J. Allison in his book The American Revolution: a Concise History, Thomas Paine helped the rebels to see the end game, complete independence not reconciliation and compromise with Britain.1) List 1 reason that Allison points to that the pamphlet “Common Sense”, made ‘Independence not only possible but necessary’.

2) List 1 indicator that “Common Sense” was well received by the American population at the time.

3) What does Allison mean by “Common Sense” changed the political dynamic in America”?

Close reading/identifying relevance of information related

to focus questions

Close reading:

Involves the careful and deliberate reading of a difficult text.

Don’t panic if it seems difficult.

Be prepared to read the text more than once, because…

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Close Reading

We use close reading strategies to:

• Fully understand information

• Find layers of meaning in a text

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Close reading

• Use the scanning skills from the previous activity for your first read through.

• Then read it again, this time thinking about how this piece of text connects to the question you are trying to answer:

How did political thinkers contribute to changes in how Americans were governed?

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Close Reading – Website Activity

Go to Thomas Paine and read the first two paragraphs of 2.1 Society & Government

Use the following close reading questions to delve deeper into the information on this webpage about Thomas Paine.

1. What is one example of primary evidence? What is the purpose and effect of providing this primary source?

2. Describe what you think Thomas Paine means by the term ‘republican government’, (third last line of paragraph 1).

3. Identify two of Thomas Paine’s ideas about the relationship between the English monarchy and the American colonies.

Close reading continued

4. This text contains one of Thomas Paine’s most famous quotes:

‘Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices’

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Close reading continued

5. Overall, what evidence is there within this text that Thomas Paine contributed to the change in how Americans were governed?