Presidential Illustrated Timeline

McClain

The assignment

Use library resources to gather information that will showcase and portray the important events or contributions of your president. Refer to your Class Handout for a complete overview of this assignment.

Information needed

Three of the events can be biographical information about your president and should summarize early years, family life, and retirement years.  The other seven events must highlight achievements or accomplishments of his presidential administration.

Refer to your Class Handout for complete information about how to organize and present your assignment.

Resources

The subscription databases shown on the Research Resources page provide your electronic or "Internet" resources for your project.  Reference books will be found on your class reserve cart.

Evaluating Information

Be sure to utilize credible and reliable sources  -- articles that are self-published or that rely on personal opinion, publications that are slanted in favor of one side, or sites that are strongly commercial will not meet criteria required from good researchers.  Resources found on the Research Resources page have authority and can be considered credible and reliable   

Citing Sources

As you research keep a list of resources used on the Library Worksheet for Citing Sources 

Help for books, Subscription Databases and Free Web sources

Citing Sources  (Noodle Tools)  -- not required

Teacher Evaluation  

Class Handout