French Culture

Notes

Login to your school Gmail account and open Drive.
Create a Document titled “La Francophonie – your topic.”
At the top of the page, write the following essential questions: Â What does this topic tell us about French Culture? Â Why should we care? How does _____ show similarities/differences to America?
Keep all of your notes in this document.

Works Cited

Open EasyBib from the “More” tab in Gmail
Under where it says “My Projects” select “Create a new project.”
Label as you did the Google Doc and select Â “Create Project.”
Select “Bibliography” below your project name to get started creating citations.
At the end of your research you will create a Google Doc of your citations that you will place in the shared French folder.

Resources

Encyclopedias

Print – World Book
Online – Ed1stop (World Book Student and Grolier Online)

Books – Search OPAC by subject and anywhere

France 944
Lonely Planet Guidebooks
Countries: Â Africa 960s, Europe 940s, Asia 950s, North America 970s, South America 980s

Biographies – Organized by last name of subject

Reference

Immigration 304.8
Cooking 641.5
Art 709

Databases

EBSCOHost
Gale DatabasesÂ – Go toÂ Student Resources in Context or Opposing Viewpoints in Context and select “Advanced” Â – do a subject search for your topic (possibly add the keyword France or French).
SIRS Discoverer
Ed1stop – Discovery Streaming and Encyclopedias
CIA World Factbook

Search Engines

Sweet Search
EasyBib – Research