Gaithersburg High School

Equal Rights

Assignment Objective

The student will use Media Center resources, print and nonprint, to research topics related to equal rights for Women, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Americans with Disabilities.

School Library Media Outcomes

Outcome 2: Students will be able to locate resources to meet an identified need.: C. Locate appropriate resources to meet information need.
Outcome 3: Students will be able to gather relevant information from appropriate resources.: Indicators:
A: Generate appropriate search terminology and strategies.
B: Evaluate specific resources to determine accuracy and relevance of content.
Outcome 5: Students will be able to interpret information to generate new understandings and knowledge.: Indicators:
A. Analyze data and information for meaning.
B: Apply critical thinking and problem solving strategies.

Media Center Resources

GHS Online Subscriptions:: From the GHS home page, click on Media Center, then on "Online Resources." The databases are listed in alphabetical order. Passwords for home use are available in the Media Center, and on Edline, under News.
ABC-CLIO American History: Try the following searches in this database: women´s rights OR equal rights amendment, Latino Americans, African Americans OR civil rights movement, Americans with disabilities, Native American rights, or Asian American rights.
Annals of American History (Britannica): Try the following searches in this database: women’s rights or Native American rights.
Student Resource Center (Gold -- Gale Cengage): Look for Essays, Event Overviews, or Topic Overviews, under the Reference tab, when you search for "women’s rights," "Americans with Disabilities," "Native Americans," "Asian Americans," "Hispanic Americans," "African Americans."
U.S. History Resource Center (Gale Cengage): Type in "civil rights" and view the topic tree where you will find links to "women’s rights," "disability rights," and "Native American rights." You can also search "African Americans" and "Asian Americans."
Oxford African American Studies Center: Type in &qout;civil rights movement" and click on Subject Entries at the top.
SIRS Knowledge Source: Search for "civil rights." Narrow your results in the left-side box by clilcking on Reference.
Gale Virtual Reference Library eBooks: Click on Proceed. Choose the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Click on "Show All" and search in the sets -- American Decades, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, or the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America.
Online Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedia Britannica Online School Edition
World Book Online Reference Center