History Fair 2015 Phase II: Research and Outline

1. Fill out the Phase II Gold Project Proposal sheet.   
Still need help with your thesis?  Try the Thesis Generator.

Need to freshen up on your primary and secondary sources? Retake the quiz.  


2. Find your sources and make you bibliography.  See the pink rubric from class and look into the info below.

Doing Research/Finding Sources  
Secondary Sources

-->Here's a great place to start (hosted by the high school)


Primary Sources – What are they?  How do you find them?  What do you do with them? http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rusa/sections/history/resources/pubs/usingprimarysources/index.cfm
Library of Congress – Digital Collectionhttp://www.loc.gov/index.html#
National Archives (the building in DC where the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and millions of other records are stored) http://www.archives.gov/research/
University of Chicago – Special Collectionshttp://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/
The Encyclopedia of Chicago – Electronic Version(includes primary sources from the Chicago History Museum Collection) http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/

Help with Annotated Bibliographies (like a Works Cited page)

Once you've found your sources and are ready for your bibliography, use this site:  http://www.bibme.org.

Use MLA format:

Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.

Examples here (use the left for navigation). 

Then annotate the sources with a brief one-sentence summary.  Examples are here.

Submitting Your Topic and Annotated Bibliography

You can submit hard copies or share them with me on google docs.  When turning these in,  don't forget to include your full name and block in the document title.

Here's the bibliography template.

Use the example on the back of the pink rubric as your example. 

3. Work on writing out the information in your own words, using the outline.