Mrs. Porter ~ The Great Gatsby and the Roaring '20s Research

The Great Gatsby Research Paper and Gallery Display Project

   The purpose of the research is for you to put together necessary and important information that will add to the reading and understanding of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.

   
 You will be researching your topics using books, databases, and the internet.  

eBooks Available:  Log in using school username & password. 

• The Roaring Twenties: discover the era of Prohibition, flappers and Jazz (unlimited copies unavailable)
•  The Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression 
• The Roaring Twenties
• Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby
• Understanding Women's Rights
• The Feminist Movement 
• Women at War: the Progressive Era, WWI and Women's Suffrage

and more ....................search catalog for additional titles

 Print Books: 

• U.S.A Twenties 
• Anything goes: a biography of the roaring twenties by Lucy Moore
• The Roaring Twenties: 1920 to 1929 by Rodney Carlisle
• Roaring '20s Fashions: deco by Susan Langley
• Flappers: Six women of a dangerous generation by Judith Mackrell
• Flappers and the new American woman: perceptions of women 1918 to 1920
• Bootleg: murder, moonshine and the lawless years of prohibition
• Last Call: the rise and fall of prohibition by Daniel Okrent
• The Harlem Renaissance (several titles available) 

    and more.....................Search catalog for additional titles

 Databases:

•  History Study Center 
• Sirs Decades (See 1920's)
• Issues & Controversies in American History
• ABC-CLIO American History 
• Biography Reference Center

See Dr. Hatcher in the library if you need assistance with any of our resources. 

Kunkel~ I-Search Research Paper

For class, you will be required to write a formal research paper. The format of this paper is based on The I-Search Paper (1988) by Ken Macrorie. The I-Search Paper requires you, the researcher and writer, to search for information and write about your findings and search process.

The I-Search Paper requires you to document, interpret, and present information from reliable and credible sources, but it is unique in the sense that it affords you the opportunity to speak directly about your research process and what you’ve learned using the pronoun “I.” This means that you will be allowed to utilize first person narration in certain sections of your research paper.

The paper will have five written components:

1.    My Question   (The essential question you are trying to answer and the reasons why you decided to research this particular question/topic.)  “I” format

2.    My Search Process   (The story of your hunt for information.)  “I” format

3.   What Has Been Learned (Connect your findings to the original question.)

NOT “I” format

4.  What This Means To Me (How has researching this question influenced you?)  “I” format

5.  Works Cited Page (Reference sources in alphabetical order using MLA format.)

MLA info: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl

Recommended Information Resources:    

• SIRS Researcher- located in Pro/Con section of VRC
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context Issues- located in Pro/Con section of VRC

Mrs. Gandt~ I-Search Research Paper

The I-Search Paper

Notes based on The I Search Paper (1988) by Ken Macrorie

MLA info: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl

The I-Search Paper directly involves you, the writer, into both process (searching for info) and product (the writing about that search).  It challenges the concept that research is the searching again for information already documented.  If you have never searched for information on the topic before, there is little re about it.  You will connect to the topic in a unique way that cannot be ignored.

The paper will have five written components:

1.                  My Question   (and why I decided to research this question)  “I” format

2.                  My Search Process   (the story of the hunt)  “I” format

3.                  What Has Been Learned (connect findings to the original question) NOT “I” format

4.                  What This Means To Me (how has researching this question changed you)  “I” format

5.                  Works Cited Page (all references in alphabetical order using MLA)

6.                  Oral Presentation ( speech, skit, poster, video, or some other exhibition of knowledge to be presented to the class)  January 2013

For more information on your assignment go to the class handout section of this blog (left hand side).

Also, See your librarian, Mrs. Hatcher for further assistance with the VRC online databases and with citing your sources (Noodletools, etc.)