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1 Student Resource Center Biography Across the curriculum

2 Student Resource Center Biography Look inside the lives of noteworthy people The Student Resource Center gives students the power of knowledge. The power to think. The power to comprehend people, places and events. The power to see how the past shapes the future how one event, or one person, can make all the difference in the world. The Student Resource Center provides biographical and critical information on more than 2,000 noteworthy individuals from ancient times to the present. The information contained in these essays can be used as a starting point for research in other topics, events and individuals important to this time period. Students may use documents and multimedia images to conduct research, write papers, create projects and deliver oral presentations. SEARCH TIP When you see the InfoMark icon on your results page, this means that you can bookmark the page for future reference, copy it into an electronic mail message or embed it into a Web page. For more information on how to use InfoMarks, click the icon on the results page, or go to: JOHN ADAMS A People Search for John Adams produces numerous indepth biographical essays on his life and times. Included are lists of people and events that were influential during his lifetime. At the time of Adams birth Botulism made first recorded appearance in Germany English parliament passed the Copyright Act to prohibit plagiarism Scarlet Fever epidemic hit New England At the time of Adams death Fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence James Fenimore Cooper published The Last of the Mohicans Thomas Jefferson died : Age of Enlightenment : Reign of George III in England : American Revolutionary War : French Revolution : Napoleonic Wars : War of 1812 Adams contemporaries Jane Austen ( ): English novelist Napoleon Bonaparte ( ): French emperor Benjamin Franklin ( ): American statesman and politician Wolfgang Goethe ( ): German writer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( ): Austrian composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( ): French philosopher and writer 1736: Claudius Aymand performed first successful appendix operation 1751: Benjamin Franklin discovered electrical nature of lightning 1752: Liberty Bell placed in belfry of Pennsylvania State House 1777: Vermont prohibited slavery 1800: Washington D.C. became U.S. capital 1814: Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner All trademarks and registered names are used herein under license.

3 ARISTOTLE A People Search for Aristotle produces numerous in-depth biographical essays on his life and times. Included are lists of people and events that were influential during his lifetime. At the time of Aristotle s birth Theater Plutus was a new comedy by Aristophanes At the time of Aristotle s death The Museum of Alexandria was founded by Ptolemy 700 B.C.-323 B.C.: Classical Greece Aristotle's contemporaries Alexander the Great (356 B.C.-323 B.C.): King of Macedonia Chandragupta II (360 B.C.-298 B.C.): Emperor of Egypt Ptolemy I Soter (367 B.C.-285 B.C.): Egyptian ruler 354 B.C.: a tomb enclosed by Ionic columns was built at Halicarnassus, in Caria, for King Mausolus; it became one of the seven wonders of the world 347 B.C.: the academy founded by the Athenian philosopher, Plato, will continue for 876 years 332 B.C.: Alexander the Great of Macedonia took over Egypt and founded a city that would be called Alexandria 330 B.C.: the atomic theory developed by the Greek philosopher, Democritus, said that all matter was composed of tiny atomic particles; the word atom meaning unbreakable or indivisible ABRAHAM LINCOLN A People Search for Abraham Lincoln produces numerous in-depth biographical essays on his life and times. Included are lists of people and events that were influential during his lifetime. At the time of Lincoln s birth Elizabeth Ann Seton founded first American parochial school Moses Rogers made first ocean voyage by steamboat Treaty of Fort Wayne negotiated; U.S. obtained three million acres of Indiana Territory Indian land At the time of Lincoln s death Gregor Mendel conducted studies in genetics Ku Klux Klan founded Lewis Carroll published Alice s Adventure in Wonderland Salvation Army founded in London : Greek War for Independence 1836: Texan War of Independence : Mexican-American War : American Civil War Lincoln s contemporaries Ulysses Grant ( ): American Union general and president Robert E. Lee ( ): Confederate general Henry David Thoreau ( ): American essayist Harriet Tubman ( ): American abolitionist 1815: Napoleon defeated at Battle of Waterloo 1820: Missouri Compromise allowed free and slave states into the Union 1829: Louis Braille invented reading system for the blind 1848: Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized first women s rights convention MICHELANGELO A People Search for Michelangelo produces numerous indepth biographical essays on his life and times. Included are lists of people and events that were influential during his lifetime. Late 1400s-1660: Renaissance : Reign of Henry VIII of England : Protestant Reformation Michelangelo s contemporaries Nicholas Copernicus ( ): Polish astronomer Leonardo da Vinci ( ): Italian artist, architect Albrecht Durer ( ): German artist El Greco ( ): Greek-born Spanish artist 1487: Pope Innocent VIII appointed Tomas de Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition 1492: Ferdinand V and Isabella I of Spain financed the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World 1509: first attempt made to restrict the practice of medicine to licensed doctors 1531: the Great Comet (later Haley s) caused a wave of superstition What have you been searching for? For more information and search assistance contact your Gale Representative at GALE (in the U.S. and Canada), and select option #5.

4 Student Resource Center Search Tips One-stop information for all your assignments How to use Student Resource Center Use your library s Internet browser to go to the Student Resource Center URL. On the home page, you will find several search options. For common topics, Subject Search gives you the most results Use Keyword Search for less common terms, such as proper names Advanced Search lets you use up to three fields to broaden or narrow your search Search within Person, Literature and Timeline for more topic-specific information SUBJECT SEARCH Choose Subject Search from home page. The tabbed results list includes indexed terms that closely match your search term(s) as well as selections for Magazines and Journals, Newspapers, Primary Sources and Multimedia. KEYWORD SEARCH Choose Keyword Search from the home page, enter your search term(s) in the entry box and click Search. ADVANCED SEARCH You may enter search terms in up to three fields, using the search operators and, or and not to broaden or narrow your results. For each search field you use, select the kind of search you want to make from the pull-down menu: Title/Headline, Source, Source Name, Author, Subject, Full Text, Document Number or Document Type. PERSON SEARCH This is a narrower search than subject search. Select Person Search from the home page. You may search by name or use the Identify a Person category, which finds a person by: Name Occupation Nationality Ethnicity Birth Year Death Year Birth Place Death Place Gender CLASSROOM TOPIC SEARCH Choose Search by Classroom Topic from the home page. Select one of the topics from Cultures, Geography, History, Literature, Science and Health. For each field you use, select the kind of search you want to make from the pulldown menu: Nations, Provinces and States, U.S. History, World History, Novels, Poems, Shakespeare, Short Stories, Health, Science, Multicultural America or World Cultures. Narrow your search by entering a keyword. MULTIMEDIA GALLERY Choose Multimedia Gallery from the home page and enter a search term. Select one of the topics: image, audio files, video files, maps, flags and seals. Other searches also locate documents under the Multimedia Gallery tab. DICTIONARY Choose Dictionary from the home page and enter a term or the beginning of the term you are searching for. You can search from Merriam-Webster s Collegiate, Biographical and Geographical dictionaries. LITERATURE Click on Literature from the home page and you can search within one or all of several categories: Author Biographies, Title Search, Encyclopedia of Literature and Literary Eras. TIMELINE SEARCH Use this search to find topics using a specific year, one or more Decades, one or more Centuries or by Timeline Event. TOOLS Help Search Tips Gale Group Databases Tool Box helps you think about ideas and organize information for papers and presentations, including: How to Judge Information How to Make a Concept Web How to Choose a Topic How to Write a Topic Sentence How to Make an Outline How to Cite a Source How to Organize a Report How to Build an Argument How to Write a Conclusion How to Write a Thesis Statement How to Create Visual Representations of Data How to Footnote List of Sources If you need further assistance with Student Resource Center, please consult your media specialist.

5 How to use the Tool Box Searching for articles in databases may seem easy, but putting all that information together for a report can be a challenge. The Gale Tool Box is an integral feature of all our K-12 databases and helps students think about their ideas and organize information for any paper or research project. They can be accessed at any point in the research process by clicking on the Tool Box icon at the top of each page. Tools for Getting Started How to Judge Information How to Make a Concept Web How to Choose a Topic How to Write a Topic Sentence How to Make an Outline Tools for Wrapping it Up How to Cite a Source How to Organize a Report How to Build an Argument How to Write a Conclusion How to Write a Thesis Statement How to Create Visual Representations of Data (charts, graphs, etc.) How to Footnote All Tool Box topics include a worksheet, suitable for downloading. For example, the topic, How to Cite a Source discusses the elements of a bibliography as well as when, why and how to give credit to an outside source. Students can then reinforce the information discussed by accessing the worksheet.

Student Resource Center Biography

Student Resource Center Biography Across the curriculum Student Resource Center - Biography Look inside the lives of noteworthy people The Student Resource Center gives students the power of knowledge.