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Hispanic Heritage Month Research

Before you start your research on your person, watch the video to the right to learn more about Hispanic Heritage Month!

Check out the Hispanic Heritage Month in the library to celebrate and explore the LatinX voice!

Hispanic Heritage Month | All About the Holidays | Grades K-2, 3-5 Social Studies Teaching and Lesson ResourcesMore than 65 million Hispanic and Latino people live in the United States. That’s a lot of people to celebrate! Across the country, Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated with festivals and community events recognizing the contributions of Hispanic and Latino people in the United States.

A few notable LatinX people you not have heard of before!

Lin-Manuel Miranda
Celia Cruz
Rita Moreno
Gloria Estefan
Frida Kahlo
Salvador Dali
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Oscar De La Renta
Selena Quintanilla
Roberto Clemente
Oscar De La Hoya

Dolores Huerta
Sylvia Mendez
Ellen Ochoa
Carlos J. Finlay
Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall
Luis Walter Alvarez
Antonia Novello
Fernando Valenzuela
Lisa Fernandez
Laurie Hernandez
Meg Medina

Visit Middle Search Plus to search a biography on your selected person. In the search box, you will put their name and "biography" after. For example: Jennifer Lopez biography

Search for your peron's biography in World Book Student! The more information you find means that your assignment will be more well-rounded.

REMEBER TO CITE YOUR SOURCES!

Citations are so easy and so important! It's important to give credit to the authors who did the research and wrote the article you're using.

You will click on the quotation symbol to create a citation for your biography in Middle Search Plus.

When you use World Book Student, you will scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to find where it says Contributor. Under the Contributor, you will click on where it says How to cite this article. This will bring you to three different citation styles. You will ALWAYS select the citation style MLA (or MLA 9).

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