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Digital Citizenship
200

You can click this to download the book for use without the internet on Follett Shelf?

What is Offline Access?

200

This genre the story revolves around athletics. Ex: Lone Stars by Mike Lupica

What is Sports?

200

This is considered a credible resource without authors to easily search for articles in one place. Ex: SIRS Discoverer or GALE

What is an online database?

200

Story is told in poetry-verse format instead of paragraphs; may be organized in short series of sections; text uses rhyme and rhythm to show meaning and emotion Ex: The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

What is Novels in Verse?

200

Able to be believed; trustworthy

What is credible?

400

This Ebook and Audiobook application can link to the public library, such as Blue Ridge Download Consortium, and is accessible in your Google waffle?

What is Sora?

400

This genre will have either ghosts or unexplainable phenomena. Elements create fear for main character and reader; “Wicked” or “evil” characters; Sense of unknown to create build up of shock & spooky setting

What is Horror?

400

This term is a formal way of giving credit to a source

What is a citation?

400

The story of a real person’s life written by another person

What is a Biography?

400

Putting someone else’s passage in your own words.

What is paraphrasing?

600

This type of source was created AFTER the time under study. Ex: textbooks, journal articles, biographies, and websites

What is a secondary source?

600

These types of stories usually tell of an exciting or very unusual experience with life and death situations

What is Action or Adventure?

600

When you take another person’s words or ideas and use them as your own.

What is plagiarism?

600

This genre is a fictional story told in concise text. It has a whole labeled bookshelf with the call number starting with "SC"

What is Short Stories or Short Stories Collection?

600

This is online behavior that is intentional, repeated, and harmful where someone uses digital devices, sites, and apps to intimidate, harm, and upset someone.

What is Cyberbullying?

800

In MLA style, also known as a reference list or bibliography, it gives full details of every source cited in the text and appears at the end of a paper. 

What is a Works Cited page?

800

A story where the main character or characters fall in love

What is Romance?

800

A Worked Cited page should be included in research. English (subject) uses this format.

MLA

800

This traditional literature story is passed down for many years with exaggerated characters & obstacles.

What is a Folktale?

800

An additional source that confirms or supports a news story, article, or piece of information

What is corroboration?

1000

These are first-hand, immediate documents or artifacts created DURING the time period you are researching/studying.

What are primary sources?

1000

This genre is typically set in the future or on other planets. The plot may involve robots, time machines or aliens.

What is Science Fiction?

1000

The most common type of searching techniques is AND, OR, NOT when using this method. A ghost would say the first part to scare you. 

What are Boolean Search Tips of Boolean Operators?

1000

This genre is a story that takes place in the past. The main character is usually made up, but the setting and events surrounding the character are real.

What is a Historical Fiction?

1000

Having preference for one thing over another in a way that is unfair.

What is bias?