MVRHS Library

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Literary criticism to go

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Literature Resource Center

Literature Resource CenterLiterary criticism, author biographies, literary journals, overviews of 75,000 frequently studied works, and over 30,000 poems, short stories and plays.

 

Questia_SchoolQuestia School provides “access to over 78,000 cross-curricular books from 1,000 of the world’s leading publishers, student tools including highlighting, note taking, bookmarks and project folders, and automatically generated citations and bibliographies in MLA, APA or Chicago format.”

Free on the Web

Literary Criticism (Internet Public Library) It’s not easy finding good sources online for free.  Here’s a great guide from the Internet Public Library to websites by subject and time period.

Science topics

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Background Info


Use Science in Context to find reliable info on just about any topic in science, or go directly to their list of Science Fair Topics & Experiments!

Interactive 3D models on science topics.

Citing your sources

Remember that just about everything you find in the science database (above) has citations included.  If you’ve found something online, you’ll need to format the citation.  Use the link below:

Scribbr MLA Citation Generator 

Inspiration and Ideas

Science Buddies
“Science Project Ideas, Answers & Tools”

Search U.S. Patents with Google Patent Search

Science Fair Topics - Books
Science Fair Topics
Books that we have in the school library

Science Fair Project Ideas (Education.com)

Science Projects at Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a crowd-source funding website.  Check out the cool projects that people are working on.

Diseases and Conditions

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Health and Wellness Center gives you three pretty awesome options: search, browse, or get a list of trustworthy links

You know those commercials for the new wonder-drug?  Half of the commercial is about all the problems that might happen if you were to take the pill.  No doubt, you should always be thinking about who is telling you the information.  Are they trying to sell you something?  Do they really care about your well-being?  Most importantly, are they actually doctors, and do they know what they are talking about?

If there’s something affecting you personally, always consult your doctor for medical advice.  If you’re doing a research paper on a topic, don’t look like a fool by referring to random websites.  Go to trustworthy medical sources, written by pros.  Here’s a few places to get started:


Health and Wellness Center gives you three pretty awesome options: search, browse, or get a list of trustworthy links.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Search Encyclopedia Britannica.

The Things They Carried: Background Info

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Use this to find anything related to US History.

Use this to find anything related to World History.

 

The Things They CarriedSee what we have in the library.  Some books are on display under the bulletin board.  Click here to see where books on the Vietnam War are.

“Vietnam War.” Britannica School. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2013. Web. 10 Sep. 2013.

The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of The Vietnam War. Jeff T. Hay. Charles Zappia, ed. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004. 336 pp.
Search for anything related to the war in this online encyclopedia.

Tim O’Brien
Page from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, O’Brien’s publisher, in honor of the 20th anniversary reprint of the book.  Has links to interviews and video from his recent book tour.

Times Topics: Tim O’Brien
Archived articles and links to info about Tim O’Brien

Vietnam : The American Experience (PBS)
Companion website to the TV series, has great background info

Some Other World
An extensive index to the novel, produced by students.

Interview with Tim O’Brien
Tim O’Brien once made the following assertion in an interview with Texas Monthly: “Good movies — and good novels, too — do not depend upon ‘accurate portrayals.’ Accuracy is irrelevant. Is the Mona Lisa an ‘accurate’ representation of the actual human model for the painting? Who knows? Who cares? It’s a great piece of art. It moves us. It makes us wonder, makes us gape; finally makes us look inward at ourselves.” (Texas Monthly, Nov. 2002. Qtd. In http://illyria.com/tobhp.html#Newsletter )