Theater

Topic: Theater
**Sample Essential Question (establish a focus for your research)** **List Supporting Questions (provide background and guide your research):**
 * * ** What if nobody could act? What would television be like today if there were no actors? ** ||
 * 1. ** Imagine...there were no actors on a television . ** ||
 * 2. ** Do you think about...the kids in high school one day becoming the actors on television and films? ** ||
 * 3. ** How do the people of today look at the world of the arts and defend the fact that everyone can’t act? ** ||
 * 4. ** When…do most theater people feel comfortable in their environment? ** ||
 * 5. ** How…do people not get nervous? ** ||
 * <[[file:Think_before_you_begin.pdf]]> worksheet **

==** 2. Information seeking strategies: Use these Keywords to search online databases for books, articles and websites. Use Boolean Operators ( AND, OR, NOT ) to combine these terms and refine your search: **==
 * ** Theater ** ||  || ** Stages ** ||   || ** History ** ||   || ** Acting ** ||

**Call Numbers That will be Most Helpful**

 * ** 792 **
 * Stage Presentations ** ||  ||   || ** 792.9 **
 * Stage Production ** ||  ||   || ** 812 **
 * Drama (American) ** ||||  ||   || ** 822 **
 * Drama (English) ** ||  ||

**Books** in the Library Collection that will support your topic:
Click Here for the Exel Spread Sheet of Theater books. Click on the Thomas Dale OPAC(Online Catalog) to locate additional books in our collection
 * = **call number** |||| **Title** ||
 * ** REF792.09 BRO ** |||| ** The Oxford illustrated history of theatre ** ||
 * ** REF822.3 SHA ** |||| ** Shakespeare in performance ** ||
 * ** REF391 RUB ** |||| ** The Tudors ** ||
 * ** REF391 RUB ** |||| ** The Stuarts ** ||


 * Sample Subscription Database searches: **


 * ** ABC-CLIO ** || ** Grolier ** ||
 * [[file:th_abc.pdf]] || [[file:th_gro.pdf]] ||


 * ** ABC-CLIO **
 * (Within Ebsco) ** || ** Grolier Online Encyclopedia ** ||
 * Now do your own search || Now do your own search ||

Three excellent web sites:

 * Georgetown University Department of Performing Arts || Dartmouth || Google Books ||
 * || ** Selecting Theater Majors ** || ** "Stage Freight" ** ||

Now try your own search

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Step 4: Use of Information; take notes; record bibliographic information for each source.
See citation & notecard guides under Roadmap to Research on the main library page. Use the <>, Citation Machine or Easy Bib for your works Cited list.

Step 6. Evaluate your work that you have successfully completed all steps.
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