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Research Task |
African American Experience Resources |
| Choose subject/person. |
Use Subject Browse to find well-known African Americans under Icons, or use
Browse to look for biographies of prominent figures in such topic areas as Arts
& Entertainment, Politics, and Education. |
| After selecting a subject for your paper or presentation, pull up all
information on him or her in the database. |
Let's say a student sees "Malcolm X" in the Icons list on the Home Page and
decides to select him as the subject of his paper. From here, he can perform a
Quick Search on "Malcolm X." The most relevant material - much of which
comes from the acclaimed The Malcolm X Encyclopedia - will appear at the top of
the Results page generated by his Search term. The student can further sort the
list by content hits type (e.g., article, image, primary document) or search
within the results to narrow his content sources.
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| Take notes and/or clip out quotes from secondary sources to begin to pull
together the core material in the paper. Make sure to provide sources for all
quoted material. |
The user can Email content to his account, Print out articles, or cut and paste
from the source material. All articles include full citation/source information
in both Chicago and MLA style on the bottom of printed or emailed articles, as
well as in a clickable pop-up window. |
| Browse for background information to put Malcolm X in the context of his times.
Use this information in the introduction and conclusion of your paper or
speech. |
The user can search a general Timeline by key word and time period, or search
for more specific timelines and chronologies for in-depth coverage of various
subjects and time periods. |
| Incorporate images and references to primary sources in your final paper or
speech. |
An Image Index provides access to thousands of images. A search for "Malcolm X"
within the Image Index will locate relevant photos. Or type "Malcolm X" into
the Quick Search box and click on the "Image" tab. Dozens of Images will appear
as Results. Our Primary Source Index contains thousands of documents, including
speeches, treaties, and legal cases. Landmark Documents collects and highlights
some of the most important primary sources in African American history. |
| Find other sources of information about Malcolm X. |
Under the Other Resources tab on the Search results screen, users will find
more than 250 relevant, vetted Web links, selected by our editors and subject
experts from our Advisory Board. |
| Write rough draft, edit, and create final paper or presentation. |
In addition to 88 lesson plans, the Classroom Resources section includes tips
and tricks for getting the most out of using AAE. Future updates to AAE will
include guidelines for writing a research paper and other valuable student
aids. |
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Research Task |
African American Experience Resources |
| Put together a general background description of slavery in the US, using
secondary sources. |
Browse by topic (e.g., Slavery) or perform a Search for "slavery." Search
results hits will be relevancy ranked, but the user can also narrow search
results (there will be hundreds for such a broad search) by searching within
the results. |
| Compile statistics on slavery at different times/decades in American history. |
Perform a Quick Search for "slavery statistics." Results will include material
from Historical Statistics of the States of the US: Two Centuries of the
Census, 1790-1990, and other statistic-rich sources. |
| Find slave narratives and other primary sources. |
The Slave Narratives resource page contains the entire 40-volume compilation of
WPA slave narratives – almost 3,500 in all – as well as literary narratives
from the 3-volume African American Slave Narratives: An Anthology. For context
on the Slave Narratives, click on the Slave Narratives Topic Guide from the
Home Page. Topic Guides provide contextualizing essays, images, links to key
figures, timelines, further reading lists, and more on topics of key interest
to multicultural researchers. Look for new Topic Guides with each Mosaic
enhancement.
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| Find images of slavery in paintings and daguerreotype. |
Use the Image Index or the Image tab in Search Results to find appropriate
historical images, such as maps, newspaper illustrations, and portraits. The
Image Index contains more than 3,000 images.
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Research Task |
African American Experience Resources |
| Find sample lesson plans on African American history topics. |
Under Classroom Resources teachers will find a lesson plan titled "African
Americans in the American Revolution." The 88 lesson plans contained in AAE
feature document-based questions, glossaries, and contextualizing essays. AAE’s
Classroom Resources provide tools even veteran teachers can incorporate into
the curriculum. Look for correlations to state curriculum standards in Fall
2008.
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| Create student activities, incorporating primary sources wherever possible. |
Each lesson plan contains student activities that link directly to related
primary source materials in a separate area of the site. For example, Activity
IV, Comparing and Contrasting Representations of the American Revolution links
directly to two different images of the Boston Massacre (a drawing by Henry
Pelham and an engraving by Paul Revere) for students to examine and discuss.
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| Provide a wider perspective of the topic. |
Each lesson plan ends with a Contemporary Connection section that provides a
modern-day application of the topic and suggestions for further student and
teacher resources and Web sites.
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