Searching+for+Verses+by+Subject

Robert Levine

Lesson Plan Template

Title: How can we find online literature and information about literature on Bartelby.com?

Description: Using Bartleby.com the student searches Indexes – author, subject, title, as well as Nonfiction, Fiction, **Verse**, and Reference for literature. The students will identify the main ideas in a verse and categorize verses by subject in a poster. Optional: Student searches the reference work The Harvard Classics – 70 volumes, and Optional: The Oxford Shakespeare – 37 plays and 154 sonnets. The student will find information about literature using Columbia Encyclopedia, by Columbia University Press, updated 2005.

Stnadards: .I.LR1B Students compare and synthesize information from different sources. EA1.I.LR1C Students use a wide variety of strategies for selecting, organizing, and categorizing information.

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Materials: Day 1 in classroom:

Handouts of verses and subjects (varying levels of reading levels) Worksheet students fill out identiying the main ideas of the verse and explaining how it relates to one of the subjects. Day 2 in library: Display of Print and Nonprint reference works for demonstration and pairwork. Powerpoint display of print Indexes and searches on databases (webpage by webpage) and results displayed. Online tutorials of varying degrees of difficulty can be assigned for a class activity or homework (especially the more difficult databases).

Step by Step Procedure: Day 1 in classroom Day 2: in library:
 * Students will choose to read different verses of varying levels of reading level, complexity and identify the subject
 * Students will read different verses and match each to subjects provided by the teacher/librarian (with varying levels of complexity) on a list. Students fill out worksheet.
 * Students will be shown how to use (search) several print and non-print databases or reference works with varying degrees of complexity.
 * Students will find verses by title, author, subject online on databases they choose with varying levels of difficulty, search features, and complexity
 * Students will create a subject heading (poster-paper) when they can find 3 verses about that subject. Some subjects can be suggested to the students- easy, moderate, and complex subjects.

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Students interpret and analyze information from textbooks and nonfiction books for young adults, as well as reference materials, audio and media presentations, oral interviews, graphs, charts, diagrams, and electronic databases intended for a general audience.