Getting Started

1. Choose a topic that interests you. Topics are listed in the research packet and on the Web site.
2. Make sure that there is enough information on the topic you have chosen. If you are not sure, ask a teacher for help or check the Web site.
3. While you research, put relevant facts on note cards. Do not plagiarize. All information on the note cards must be put in your own words. Any note cards or papers that are suspected of plagiarism will not be accepted and will be returned without a grade. This means that a "0" will be recorded in the grade book.
4. You will be required to have at least (you may have more) three references from two different types of sources. For example, you could have two Internet sources and one encyclopedia reference.

History Class Extra Credit

1. Include an extra page after the end of the research paper but before the Works Cited page
2. This pages needs a graph, chart, map, timeline, extra photos, political cartoon, etc.
3. Extra credit points received
• 1 point if the item is cut and pasted to the page.
• 2 points if the item is drawn or created by you then pasted to the page.
• 3 points if you write about the graph, chart, map, timeline, extra photos, or political cartoon in the paragraphs of your report.