Project: Spanish Country Report
Essential Question(s): How do Spanish speaking countries vary? How are they different or the same as the United States?
Research Questions
#1 Where in the world is my country located?
#2 Who are the people of my country?
#3 What is the political makeup of my country?
Goal: To create a presentation about a Spanish speaking country that informs and persuades the class to visit your country. Be creative! Make me want to come to your country! Step 2 (on your project Worksheet) DO THE RESEARCH! Using the sources from the library and the databases, research the answers to your questions and write the answers on the back of this paper. Remember that not all websites have reliable information! Don't just Google it! Your research is only as good as the source you got your information from. For access to reliable articles or websites, you must use the JCPL Databases. Also the database articles already have the citation done for you so it will make it easier on you when you want to do Slide 11 The "Works Cited" page. You don't want to do more work than you have to right? JCPL Databases Login: Use your library card or Everitt's number (username: everitt password: 260026000)
Go to the Purple Tab then click on Subscription Databases A-Z and find the following databases: Culture Grams (MLA citation is at the top "Generate Citation") Country Reports (MLA citation is at the bottom under Company) Lands & Peoples Encyclopedia (MLA citation is at the bottom of the article) username: jcpl password: jcpl
Kids InfoBits (MLA citation is either at the top or bottom of most articles)
Good websites to use! Remember these do NOT have the citation already done for you. You will have to make the citation! PICTURES! Remember pictures need to be cited too! You should try to find out the name of the person who shot the picture, what article the the pictured appeared in and a date. Then the caption underneath the picture should be labeled as Figure (usually abbreviated Fig.), assigned a number, and then the rest of the information like the sample below. If you only have a URL, then copy and paste the URL underneath the picture. (It can be in a very small font if the URL is long). An excellent example of a picture citation is below:
 Fig 1. Nichols, Michael. 2011. Nichols Photography at National Geographic. Electric Tree House. Google Images. Web. 17 October 2011. <http://electrictreehouse.com/category/to-learn/conservation> |
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