Thursday, May 20, 2010

Mrs.McKinney : Moral Courage Research

You've read a biography of someone who has demonstrated moral courage and now you need to find an article about moral courage.  Here are some places to look:

Academic One  A MEL database with thousands of articles.  When you get results, click on the various tabs on top to access various formats (magazines, news, multimedia).  You can also download an MP3 of any article.

ELibrary  Don't let the cute cartoon figures fool you!  This MEL database has articles ranging from elementary through college.....and it's easy to use.

Educator's Reference Complete:  This MEL database focuses on educational issues.

Expanded Academic : More college than high school level, with millions of articles.

General One FileThis MEL database has a broad scope of articles for the general user. Lots of moral courage articles.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers:  MEL database that searches thousands of newspapers. Use for really current articles.

SIRS DISCOVERER : MEL database for K-12 students, with a lot of results for "moral courage" in articles, book sections, newspapers, and essays. 
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And you may also want to try Google Books, which searches millions of digitized books.  You would not have to read the entire book, but just take a section of it.  Try searching "moral courage" at Google Books (click on underlined link).