11th Grade AP English

Mission:

The mission of the CBA Markert Library program is to teach information literacy in collaboration with classroom teachers within the context of the content curriculum, inspire and develop a love of reading, and provide diverse materials and services to enable students to become life-long learners and effective users of information.

**Big 6 Research Method**
	1.1. Define the problem 1.2 Identify the information requirements	Task: research assigned perspective (Puritan, Feminist, Psychological) Puritan: What is the religion based on? What are the differences from other Christian religions? Where did the faith originate? Why did they come to America? How did contemporaries view Puritans? How much did the religion dominate the believers’ actions and decisions? Feminist: What is the definition of feminism? When did this viewpoint appear? What caused feminism to appear? How was it expressed? What was the societal reaction? What was society’s view of women? Who were the major feminists? What are the goals of the movement? How is the philosophy applied to literary works? Psychological/Freudian: Who was Freud? When did he live? What was his environment like? What were some of his theories? How did society respond? Format: text
	2.1 Determine kinds of sources 2.2 Prioritize sources	Books, Internet, databases, journals
	3.1 Locate actual resources 3.2 Locate information	Books: 300's for social issues; 800's for literary criticism Databases: Gale, Proquest Internet: Google, but be sure to credential your sources.
	4.1 Engage (read, view, interview) 4.2 Extract (make notes)	Take notes electronically, making sure to capture info for citation. Citation generator You are responsible for the accuracy of your citation, not the generator. Check against citation examples.
	5.1 Organize information 5.2 Present information	Make sure that your Works Cited page is following MLA formatting - be careful to use MS Word View>Header and Footer for the pagination.
	6.1 Judge the product 6.2 Judge the process
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Big 6 Research Method

1.1. Define the problem

1.2 Identify the information requirements

Task: research assigned perspective (Puritan, Feminist, Psychological)

Puritan: What is the religion based on? What are the differences from other Christian religions? Where did the faith originate? Why did they come to America? How did contemporaries view Puritans? How much did the religion dominate the believers’ actions and decisions?

Feminist: What is the definition of feminism? When did this viewpoint appear? What caused feminism to appear? How was it expressed? What was the societal reaction? What was society’s view of women? Who were the major feminists? What are the goals of the movement? How is the philosophy applied to literary works?

Psychological/Freudian: Who was Freud? When did he live? What was his environment like? What were some of his theories? How did society respond?

Format: text