Information/Homework

Information - This term the long term assignment is a research paper on a woman. Pick a woman from the list given in class. Find at least three sources for your paper. Use the guidelines that where given in class to write your paper. I have included the list and the guidelines in this blog.

List of Women for Research

Please pick one of the women from this list for your research paper for fourth term. Paper is due April 5, 2012. Additional information will be coming soon.

Clara Latimer Bacon
Gertrude Branch Mae Jemison
Mary Lucy Cartwright Jane Goodall
Sun-Yung Alice Chang Maria Mitchell
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer Marie Currie
Deborah Tepper Haimo Dorothy Crowfoot
Paulette Libermann Annie Cannon
Svenlana Jitomirskaya Ellen Ochoa
Argelia Velez-Rodriguez Barbara McClintock
Irene Fonseca Sallie Ride
Hypatia Ada Yonath
Etta Zuber Falconer Carol Greider
Gloria Conyers Hewitt Elizabeth Blackburn
Chuu-Lian Terng Linda Buck
Anneli Lax Mary Douglas Leakey
Ida Rhodes Wangari Maathai
Pauline Sperry Rigoberta Menchu
Vivienne Malone-Mayes Shirin Ebadi
Fan Chung Harper Lee
Lesley Milman Sibner Gwendolyn Brooks
Indira Gandhi Rebecca Cole
Frida Kahlo
Suiko
Sandra Day O’Connor
Constance Baker Motley
Golda Meir
Madeleine Albright
Benazir Bhutto
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Audrey Hepburn
Marion Anderson
Mildred D. Taylor
Mary McLeod Bethune
Evelyn Cisneros
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Violeta Chammoro
Cristina E. Fernandez de Kirchner

OUTLINE FOR RESEARCH PAPER ON A PERSON
DUE NO LATER THAN April 5, 2012
PLEASE UPLOAD YOUR PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Use MLA format, total of five (5) pages typed. Page one cover, two, three, and four text, page five Work Cited. You need a minimum of three sources. Do not label the sections of your paper.

A. Work Cited – List all of the places that you gathered information from, including page numbers, dates of publication, title of and author of books used. This information comes at the end of your paper. If this information isn’t included, you get no credit.
B. Cover – Give the name of your person; and underline it once on your cover page. Your name, grade, date, teacher’s name, and class period.
C. Childhood – Describe the subjects’ childhood. Where was he or she born? Were they rich or poor? Were there any significant events or facts in his or her childhood that made them what they later turned out to be?
D. Education – Describe the general educational experience. Private school or public, were there any influential teachers or friends at school. Did they attend college, which one, how important was education to their lives?
E. Life Crisis or Major Events – What major event or life crisis best illustrated the character and personality of the subject? Write about anything that made this person who they later became.
F. Impact – What impact or influence did the subject have on history and the lives of others?
G. Did you benefit from this research experience, in what way? Be specific.