Homework for Wednesday, January 9

I had a little trouble clearing the blog--but the problems seem to have resolved!

Congratulations on finding the blog.  Please follow the instructions below and complete these assignments for Wednesday's class.  

1.  Go to the Clark Library website.  Find the links to the IRIS online tutorials.  Complete the tutorial entitled "Explore Topics."

2. Make a list of 5 world or national events that happened the year you were born.  Keep track of how/where you found this information.  (There is no specific manner in which I am expecting you to do this--I'll be curious about your strategies.)

3.  Go to the Clark Library website or directly to the NYT and find the NYT Historical Archives.  Do a search for one of the events you found that happened in the year you were born.  Print a story related to that event and bring it with you to class.

4.  Also at the Clark Library website, find a volume of American Decades (in the 1900s--edited by Vincent Tompkins).  Choose a decade that is NOT the decade in which you were born.  Find two people who were "in the news" in that decade--one in the Arts and one in government.  What did they do, and why were they in the news?  Write down your answers, and bring them to class with you.

Questions?  Email Kristin, after making a sincere effort to figure it out yourself.

You may handwrite (if I can read it) or type this assignment.  Either way!