Essay Prompt: You will combine research on historical, scientific, and medical information to create a written description of an epidemic disease as if the narrator had lived through the epidemic as it happened.

Exploring Past Outbreaks

Finding Good Sources

Databases can help us ensure your sources are reliable and free of bias. We can also use them to narrow down to really accurate results.

Try these search terms

"epidemic name" and "date" HIV or AIDS and 1980's

"epidemic name" and "treatment" "Ebola virus" and treatment

"epidemic name" and "origin" SARS and origin

"epidemic name" and "location or people" smallpox and "Native Americans"

"epidemic name" and impacts

Finding Books

In the library catalogue, try these keyword searches:

Plague

Epidemic

The specific name of your outbreak

Choose a nonfiction text. Then, look at the Dewey decimal number, and find the author last name. This is how you will find the books on the shelves.

Ex:

Call #: 614 EMMELUTH Emmeluth, Donald.

Series: Deadly diseases and epidemics

Published 2005

Reading Level: 8.7 Interest Level: 5-8