English | Secret Life of Bees
Day 1 & 2
Step 1: Research
One group member should open the research organizer for your assigned group and share with your group members.
Review the research requirements/questions and divide them among the group members.
Find detailed answers using only the sources listed below. Do not use any other sources.
Use the research organizer to take notes and to keep track your citations.
Bees & Beekeeping
Bees & Beekeeping Research Organizer
Sources
Discovery Education Video: Farming and Beekeeping
Purdue University 4-H Beekeeping
Children & the Loss of Parents
Children, Trauma, & the Loss of Parents Research Organizer
Sources
Helping a Child Cope with the Death of a Parent
Kids Health: Helping a Child Cope with the Death of a Parent
Civil Rights Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Research Organizer
Sources
Daily Life through History: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Infobase African American History: Civil Rights Act of 1964
Infobase African American History: Civil Rights Act
Life in Rural America
Life in Rural America Research Organizer
Sources
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Agriculture in the 1960's
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Rural Lifestyle
Infobase eBook: Life in Rural America
Pop Culture of the 1960's
Pop Culture of the 1960's Research Organizer
Sources
Gale Virtual Reference: Pop Culture of the 1960's
Infobase American History: 20th Century Pop Culture
Purpose and Role of Storytelling
Storytelling Research Organizer
Sources
Life Hacker: The Science of Storytelling
Psychology Today: The Psychological Power of Storytelling
Psychology Today: Why Your Story Matters
Race Relations in the 1960's
Race Relations in the 1960's Research Organizer
Sources
Race Relations Overview
ABC-CLIO Daily Life Through History: Reform in the United States 1940-1959
ABC-CLIO Daily Life Through History: Reform in the United States 1960-1990
Infobase African American History: Race Relations in the 20th Century
Infobase American History: African Americans in the Civil Rights Era
Digital History: The State of Black America in the 1960's
Bureau of Census: Black Americans, a Profile
Birmingham Confrontations
Black Past Remembered: The Birmingham Campaign
Infobase American History: Bull Connor
Freedom Riders
Infobase American History: Freedom Riders
Interracial Marriage
Infobase American History: Antimiscegenation Statutes
Racial Etiquette
ABC CLIO Daily Life through History: Racial Etiquette
Racial Etiquette: The Racial Customs and Rules of Racial Behaviour in Jim Crow America
Segregation
ABC CLIO Daily Life through History: Jim Crow
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Racial Segregation in the South
Southern Manifesto
Infobase American History: Southern Manifesto
Voting Tests and Restrictions
ABC CLIO Daily Life through History: Literacy Tests
Infobase American History: Poll Tax
Rituals around the Virgin Mary
Rituals around the Virgin Mary Research Organizer
Sources
Discovery Education: Healing at Lourdes
Discovery Education: Virgin of Guadalupe Procession
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Shrines
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Virgin of Guadalupe
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Weeping/Bleeding Statues
Infobase Modern World History: Bleeding Statues
University of Dayton: Our Lady of Czestochowa (Black Madonna)
University of Dayton: Our Lady of Fatima
University of Dayton: Our Lady of Lourdes
Rituals in our Society & World
Rituals in our Society and World Research Organizer
Sources
Rituals
Scientific American: Why Rituals Work
Wailing Wall (Required)
Culture Trip: What You Need to Know
Discovery Education: Wailing Wall
Blarney Stone
Blarney Castle: Kissing the Blarney Stone
History.com: Why do people kiss the Blarney Stone
Places of Peace and Power: The Blarney Stone
Paddle Out
Adventure Sports Network: The Not-So-Ancient Practice of Memorial Paddle Out
USC Santa Barbara: The Ocean Circle: Paddle Out Ceremony
Hadj (Hajj)
Mehndi
Culture India: Mehndi Ceremonies
Discovery Education: Wedding Traditions in India
Nyepi
Quinceanera
Discovery Education: Quincenera
New York Times: The Quinceanera
Kumbh Mela
NPR: Welcome to the World's Largest Gathering of Humans
Tailgating
USA Today: Tailgating isn't just a party
Database Passwords
Access to library passwords requires signing in to your VHS Google account using your school email address and password.
Citation Format MLA 8
Basic Citation
Author(s) Last Name, First Name. “Title of Source.” Container Title, Editor’s First Name Last Name, Publisher, Date Published, page numbers. Title of Database, URL. Date of Access.
Citation for a Website
Author(s) Last name, First name. “Title of the Article or Individual Page.” Title of the website, Name of the publisher, Date of publication, URL.
If there is not author, move to the next item in the list. Do not make up an author.
In-text Citation
(Author Last Name) or (Title of Source)
Citation Generators
Citation Help
From EasyBib.
Citation rules and examples from EasyBib.
From the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University.
Overview of MLA Citation Style
From the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
Sample Works Cited Page Entries
From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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