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=**Greek Tragedy Pathfinder**=

__Databases__
You can access NCWise Owl from home by using the password given in class [|**http://www.ncwiseowl.org/**]

"[|NC WiseOwl] (NC Online Windows for Learning) has been providing online subscription resources for our schools for the last decade. Our mission is to ensure that all of our public and charter school students have access to a collection of online resources for use in research projects and homework assignments, without regard to the economic status of their local school system."

[|**Student Research Center**]: Powered byEBSCO Host //**Student Research Center**// makes it easy for students to search by keyword or by topic to find the most useful search results. Results can be easily sorted by source type—magazines, reference books, photos, flags, etc.


 * [|Gale Info Trac Power Search]** **Currently searching 11 databases with 95,466,749 documents updated as recently as February 15, 2010.**

[|**Grolier Online Passport**]: It includes eight encyclopedia databases: //Encyclopedia Americana,// //Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia,// //The New Book of Knowledge,// //La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre,// //America the Beautiful,// //Lands and Peoples,////Amazing Animals// and //The New Book of Popular Science//. English topics, such as comparing Greek tragedy to Shakespearean Tragedy should use **Literature button** for //Literary Reference Center//, //NoveList Plus// and //Scribners Writers Series//

__Websites__
Choose reputable web sites, rather than .coms or wikipedia sites for research. Most teachers will not accept wikipedia as a reputable source. [|Evaluating Information Found on the Internet]from Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Library asks you to consider **authorship, publishing body, point of view or bias, referral to other sources, verifiability, and currency. Students should also distinguish propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, authorship, publishing body and currency on the internet.**

If you Google, use limiters to keep from pulling up .com sites. Refer to **Search within a Specific Site** in [|Google Advanced search]. You may also find scanned copies of books on the cart or other sources in [|Google Book Search] To broadly search for scholarly literature, use [|Google Scholar]

[|TheatreHistory.com] Synopsis of '**Oedipus Rex**,' Sophocles' dramatic masterpiece. [|The Internet Classics Archive] Select from a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation. [|Oedipus the King] By Sophocles [|Understanding Shakespeare] This is a great site provided by PBS that explains Shakespeare and Tragedy [] Greek Theatre research [] Greek mythology, search by individual [] Oedipus tragedy


 * Open up the Digital Note Card Template >Click on the //round Microsoft Office Button// at the top left > Click "//Save as"//>Change the location from the drop down menu to the //Student Activities Drive>// Change the File Name to //your Full Name>Click "Save"//**

__Citation Resources__
[|Citation Maker] Citation Maker builds your citations for your. It is also available through NC Wise OWL

[|MLA In-text Parenthetical Citation] [|Example of a Works Cited Page] [|Citing Primary Sources]: MLA [|Works Cited Page and Parenthetical Citation] [|The Boolean Machine] Find out what Boolean operators are and how to use them.