Romeo+and+Juliet+Adaptation

= //Romeo and Juliet// Adaptation Project =
 * [[image:movie.jpg width="112" height="111"]] || **//Adapt the story of Romeo and Juliet//**
 * //and the elements of//**
 * //Shakespearean Tragedy//**
 * //in another time period and place.//** ||

=ROMEO AND JULIET "TRANSLATION" RESOURCES= [|Shmoop] Enotes No Sweat Shakespeare Sparknotes

Movie Research Tips

 * General storyline information** (plot, characters, setting, lines) and (complication, crisis, falling action and climax) - Use general information on the time period to get an overall picture of life, including information on important events, people, everyday life, culture, politics, society, etc.


 * Characters and Line adaptations** - Use sources like "//Everyday Life in.//..." which include information on what people were like during that time period, primary sources (letters, diary entries, speeches, photographs) and even novels taking place in that time period.


 * Scene locations** - Use sources like "//Everyday Life in//...." and general information about the time period, including everyday life, culture, people, places and important events.

=TIME PERIOD RESEARCH RESOURCES=

Books from Other Libraries
Search Chester County Public Library or Access PA to borrow a book through inter-library loan (see Mrs. L to request it)

Subscription Databases

 * Daily Life in Through History
 * ABC CLIO History
 * Gale Ebooks : Full-text E-books (also available in print in the library)
 * ABC CLIO Ebooks: Full-text E-books (also available in print in the library)
 * Pop Culture Universe
 * Infobase E-books: Full-text E-books (also available in print in the library)
 * World Book Online
 * POWER Library
 * Netlibrary - Full text Ebooks
 * AP Images - great news photographs - including historical photos

**EBooks and Articles on the Web** **(Free Online PUBLISHED sources = RELIABLE)**

 * American Heritage Magazine search the online index and access print editions on the library shelves
 * National Geographic Magazine search the online index and access print editions on the library shelves
 * Time Magazine Archive - articles from 1923 to the present
 * Google Books - search and view full-text e-books Advanced search screen
 * Google Scholar - Search scholarly literature from many disciplines and sources, such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
 * Project Muse - full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
 * Project Gutenberg - collection of 30,000 free electronic books (ebooks)
 * Bibliomania - free online access to 2,000 works of literature

**Free Websites**
Can you trust everything you find on the "Free" web? Give each of these websites a grade based in CROCCS Portals
 * [|website #1] || [|website #2] ||
 * Google Advanced Search
 * Internet Public Library
 * Librarian's Index to the Internet
 * Alameda County Website Index

General American History Websites
 * Library of Congress American Memory Collection
 * Smithsonian Encyclopedia
 * The National Archives and NA Student Page
 * History.com (History Channel)
 * Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
 * Shmoop U.S. History
 * Macrohistory and World Report
 * [|Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes]
 * Hyperhistory Timeline
 * Authentic History Center: Primary Sources of American Popular Culture
 * History Central: World and U.S. History
 * American History Links (Multnomah County Library)

Primary Sources
 * Library of Congress American Memory Collection
 * Famous Trials
 * Finding World History portal to websites with primary sources
 * World History Compass portal history and primary source websites
 * The History Guide - portal to historical websites and documents online
 * University of Oklahoma Historical Documents Collection
 * Springfield Township HS Library Primary Source Page

Slang [|Western]

Colonial America
 * History Central: American Colonies
 * Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Colonial North America (Fordham University)

American West
 * [|Eyewitness to History]
 * [|Library of Congress American Memory Collection]: History of the American West Photographs
 * [|PBS: New Perspectives on the American West]
 * [|Yahoo! 19th Century]
 * [|American West]
 * [|American West Virtual Library]
 * [|Eyewitness History: Old West]
 * [|Google Directory: American West]
 * [|Yahoo! Directory: American West]

American Decades (General) 1910's Immigration 1920's Chicago 1930's Great Depression 1950's Suburbia 1960's Counter Culture Food and Fashion Medieval Europe Ancient Rome
 * [|Google 20th Century]
 * [|Yahoo! 20th Century]
 * Infoplease Year by Year
 * People's History
 * American Cultural History: 20th Century (Lonestar College Library)
 * Google Index: 20th Century
 * Yahoo! Index: 20th Century
 * 20th Century Decades: Chico HS Library
 * Chronicle of 1900-2000
 * About.com: Decade by Decade
 * [|American History: 20th Century] From the Multnomah County Library
 * [|Timeline of the 20th Century] From About.com
 * [|Time Warp] Archive of Vintage Technology through the Decades
 * [|Time Magazine Cover Search]
 * [|Women of the Century: 100 Years of American Heroes]
 * [|Eyewitness to History]
 * Tech Ed Best of Web: Roaring Twenties
 * [|Illinois Trails History of the 1920s]
 * [|America in the 30s]
 * [|New Deal Network] (1930s and 1940s)
 * [|Great Depression Q and A] (Roosevelt Library)
 * [|New Deal Agencies]
 * [|New Deal Library of Congress Resources]
 * [|Poster Children] (inspired by the New Deal)
 * [|Times Topics: The Works Progress Administration]
 * [|The WPA]
 * [|Voices from the Dustbowl] (1940-1941)
 * Fifties Web
 * [|History of the 1950s]
 * [|Eyewitness to History]
 * [|The Sixties Project]
 * [|Sixties Section]
 * [|Radical History Links] including Antiwar Movement, Black Power Movement, Student and Counterculture Movements
 * [|Psychedelic 60s]
 * [|Food Timeline]
 * [|Dining through the Decades]
 * [|History of Fashion, Food and Time]
 * [|Costume Gallery]
 * [|Yahoo: Fashion and Beauty History]
 * [|Fact Monster: Fashion Timeline]
 * [|Costume Resources Online]
 * [|American Vintage Blues]
 * [|Timeline of Costume History]
 * [|Fashion Era]
 * [|Museum of Costume]
 * [|Fashion for Women through the Age]
 * Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)\
 * Google Directory: Middle Ages
 * Multnomah County Library: European History
 * Finding World History
 * Middle Ages Site Map
 * [|The Classics Page: The Romans]
 * [|Yahoo! Directory: Ancient History]
 * [|Google Directory: Ancient Rome]
 * [|The Roman Empire: PBS]
 * [|Life in Ancient Rome from Brooklyn College]
 * [|Ancient History Sourcebook]
 * [|UPENN Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]
 * [|Mediterranean Archaeological Resources]
 * [|Diotima: Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World]
 * [|Perseus Digital Library]
 * [|Voice of the Shuttle: Classic Studies]
 * [|Teacher Oz Kingdom of History: Rome]
 * [|History for Kids: Ancient Rome]
 * Multnomah County Library: European History
 * [|Multnomah County Library Ancient & Classical Cultures]
 * [|Springfield Township's Ancient History Directory]
 * Finding World History

World War II Germany Middle East Amish Culture
 * Google Directory: History/World War II
 * Google Directory: Middle East

Photographs ** (if used in a presentation, remember you MUST cite!)

 * AP Images
 * Life Magazine Image Archive
 * American Memory Collection (Library of Congress)
 * Images of American Political History
 * Smithsonian Images
 * National Archives: Exhibits
 * National Archives: Picturing the Century Exhibit
 * Helios: Smitsonian American Art Museum: Photographs
 * New York Public Library: Picture Collection
 * Time - Life Photo Collection
 * Library of Congress Photo Stream on Flickr
 * Calisphere: a world of primary sources and more (Univ. of California)
 * Exhibits on the Web
 * American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
 * Time Magazine Covers