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Day Two Library Research—. Time Period. Before you begin…. Be sure you have finished up the information you need for your author biography. Why am I in the library again? Answer—More research...(Write this down.). Day Two— Time Period What events impacted your writer and his/her work?
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Day Two Library Research— Time Period
Before you begin… Be sure you have finished up the information you need for your author biography.
Why am I in the library again? Answer—More research...(Write this down.) • Day Two— • Time Period • What events impacted your writer and his/her work? • Historical & Political • Educational • Philosophical & Theoretical • Technological & Scientific • Artistic • Literary
Where’s the best place to find this information?(Write this down.) • Day Two • _________________ for Students • SHORT STORIES, NOVELS, POETRY, or DRAMA • Look in the section entitled “Historical Context.” • Directions for finding ___ for Students: • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find the volume you need. • Type in your title (novel, drama, short story, or poem). • Click the orange link. • Look under “Historical Context” in Novels for Students, etc.
Where can I find a second source?(Write this down.) • Day Two—More eBooks: • Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature • Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them • Literature and Its Times, Supplement 1 • World Literature and Its Times, Volumes 2, 3, and 4 • Shakespeare for Students • Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements
Where can I find a second source?(Write this down.) • Day Two—Databases • EBSCO: • http://www.fortbendisd.com/departments/technology/library/digital-resources/ebsco • Go to “Literary Reference Center.” • Type in the name of your research title and masterplots. • Look for your research title with Masterplots II (in bold) underneath it. • Click on “HTML Full Text,” (NOT the name of your title). • Look for “Context.”
Accessing Databases from Home • EBSCO—ridgepoint (login); panthers (password) • Gale—lonestar (password)
Who’s in the Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature? • Douglas Adams • Matthew Arnold • Margaret Atwood • W. H. Auden • Jane Austen • Samuel Beckett • Eric Blair (Orwell) • William Blake • Charlotte Bronte • Emily Bronte • Rupert Brooke • Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Anthony Burgess • Robert Burns • Lord Byron • Lewis Carroll • Angela Carter • Agatha Christie • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Joseph Conrad • Roald Dahl • Anita Desai • Daniel Defoe • Charles Dickens • Isak Dinesen • John Donne • Arthur Conan Doyle • George Eliot • T. S. Eliot • Thomas Gray • Graham Greene • George Herbert • Henry Fielding • Thomas Hardy • Seamus Heaney • E. M. Forster • John Fowles • John Galsworthy • William Golding • Robert Herrick • Gerard Manley Hopkins • A. E. Housman • Ted Hughes • Aldous Huxley • Kazuo Ishiguro • Ben Johnson • James Joyce • John Keats • Rudyard Kipling • Charles Lamb • Philip Larkin • D. H. Lawrence • Doris Lessing • C. S. Lewis • Doris Lessing • Katherine Mansfield • Christopher Marlowe • Yann Martel • Andrew Marvell • W. Somerset Maugham • Alice Munro • Ben Okri • Michael Ondaatje • George Orwell • Samuel Pepys • Harold Pinter • Alexander Pope • Christina Rossetti • Saki • William Shakespeare • George Bernard Shaw • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • Nevil Shute • Muriel Spark • Robert Louise Stevenson • Bram Stoker • Alfred Lord Tennyson • Dylan Thomas • J. R. R. Tolkien • Derek Walcott • Evelyn Waugh • H. G. Wells • Oscar Wilde • P. G. Wodehouse • Virginia Woolf • William Wordsworth • William Butler Yeats
Directions for Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature (first book on third shelf). • Type in your author’s name. • Click the orange link. • Look under “Works in Biographical and Historical Context.”
Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them • Directions: • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find Literature and Its Times: Profiles of 300 Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events that Influenced Them(last book on fourth shelf). • Type in the name of your work/title. • Click the orange link. • Look under anything that begins with “Events in History…”
Literature and Its Times, Supplement 1 • Directions: • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find Literature and Its Times: Supplement 1 (first book on fifth shelf). • Type in the name of your work/title. • Click the orange link. • Look under anything that begins with “Events in History…”
World Literature and Its Times (Volumes 2, 3, & 4) • Directions: • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find World Literature and Its Times (on bottom shelves). • Type in the name of your work/title. • Click the orange link. • Look under anything that begins with “Events in History…”
Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements • Included movements: • Absurdism • Beat Movement • Bildungsroman • Classicism • Colonialism • Elizabethan Drama • Enlightenment • Existentialism • Expressionism • Gothic Literature • Humanism • Imagism • Magic Realism • Medieval Mystics • Modernism • Neoclassicism • Postcolonialism • Postmodernism • Realism • Renaissance Literature • Romanticism • Science Fiction and Fantasy • Surrealism • Symbolism • Transcendentalism
Directions for Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find Literary Movements for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literary Movements(third book on third shelf). • Type in the name of your movement. • Click the orange link. • Look under “Historical Context.”
Directions for Shakespeare for Students • Click the link: http://www.galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=miss50350 • Under “eBooks,” click “Literature.” • Find Shakespeare for Students (third book on sixth shelf). • Type in the name of your play. • Click the orange link. • Look under “Historical Context.”
What time is it? Research time! Happy Researching! Be sure you can discuss how the times influenced your writer’s work.