Showing posts with label Summer School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer School. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

To Kill A Mockingbird

A pathfinder is a Microsoft word doc that links to numerous surface websites and paid subscription databases, It is divided into these resources
  • websites from Open Directory Project
  • Articles from GALE Literature Resource Center [need LAPL library card to access]
  • Articles from JSTOR
  • Articles from EBSCO Literature Research Center

Link: English_To Kill a Mockingbird.doc


To access the pathfinder: double-click on the name of the document then choose either OPEN or SAVE as needed.

Every source opens by hyperlink so place your mouse over any URL address or image and follow the pop-up instructions. If you want to search through all these resources at once, GOTO the custom search engine on the library blog.The search engine is called Literary Analysis.

Access and passwords for GHCHS online textbooks and databases are for Granada Hill Charter High School students only. Please do not share this information with students who do not attend GHCHS or post this information online. Thank you 

The Secret Life of Bees & Civil Rights Movement

Linked below  are pathfinders for Civil Rights Movement. To open file, double click on the name of the document US History_Civil Rights Movement.doc then OPEN or SAVE as needed

Links
US History_Civil Rights and Struggle for Equality.doc
US History_Civil Rights Movement.doc


The information is divided into the categories listed below
  1. 1954: Brown v. Board of Education
  2. 1954: Emmet Till
  3. 1955: Rosa Parks & 1960 Greensboro
  4. 1955: Early years of MLK in Civil Rights Movement (“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”)
  5. 1957: Little Rock Nine
  6. 1961: Freedom Rides
  7. 1963: Later years of MLK in Civil Rights Movement (“I Have a Dream”)
  8. 1964: 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
  9. 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964
  10. 1965: “Bloody Sunday”
  11. 1965: Watts Riots
  12. 1966: Executive Order 11246 (Affirmative Action)
  13. Jim Crow laws

A custom search engine for The Civil Rights Movement is also available at the library blog located at http://www.vlcspear.blogspot.com/. The search engine contains hundreds of academic and educational websites. Just look for the search toolbar located on the right hand side of the blog.

Access and passwords for GHCHS online textbooks and databases are for Granada Hill Charter High School students only. Please do not share this information with students who do not attend GHCHS or post this information online. Thank you 

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Things They Carried

A pathfinder is a Microsoft word doc that links to numerous surface websites and paid subscription databases, It is divided into these resources
  • Vietnam War documentaries
  • general web sources for the Vietnam War
  • Anti-War and Countercultures resources
  • Protest Songs and Music from the Vietnam Era
  • Literary analysis essays on Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried from EBSCO Literature Research Center
To access the pathfinder: double-click on the name of the document then choose either OPEN or SAVE as needed. 
American Literature_The Vietnam War.docx


Access and passwords for GHCHS online textbooks and databases are for Granada Hill Charter High School students only. Please do not share this information with students who do not attend GHCHS or post this information online. Thank you 
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