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: What does this topic tell us about French Culture? 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 “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: 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 Databases – Go to Student Resources in Context or Opposing Viewpoints in Context and select “Advanced” – 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