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academic facet at Sacred Hearts Academy focuses on preparing students
to make the successful transition to the next level of their education.
In order to accomplish this feat, small, interactive classes are
mediated by well-rounded and highly qualified faculty who employ
a variety of techniques to stimulate the exchange of ideas and information.
The process is also bolstered by the efforts of the school’s
dedicated administration and staff.
Through this unique academic experience, students learn to value
their own intelligence, to think and learn on their own, to question
and wonder and take their own steps toward success.
While the Lower School and Junior High focus on planting a strong
foundation for later learning, the High School curriculum is strongly
college-preparatory with courses in English, mathematics, social
studies, science, foreign language, technology, religion and physical
education, as well as fine arts and business education. Over 98
percent of Academy graduates pursue further study after graduation.
Our on-line databases are available to the entire SHA family. For
user id and password, please ask the High School librarian (mroy@sacredhearts.org)or
the Lower School librarian, Lila (Miki) Willa (lwilla@sacredhearts.org).
Daily Life Through History/World Cultures
Today Daily Life through History is a groundbreaking, dynamic resource that provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. World Cultures Today, examines the way our contemporaries live their lives.
EBSCO
databases
These databases include articles from current magazines and newspapers.
Other resources include general and specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries,
and Novelist, a fiction advisory.
NOVELIST
is a reader’s advisory service that assists students in locating
fiction books by their favorite author or genre or topic.
Encyclopedia
Britannica Online Edition
This database includes a middle school and an elementary school
version, in addition to a magazine file and media and video clips.
Merriam-Webster’s
Third New International Dictionary Unabridged
Annals of American
History
This database explores the history of the United States through
speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, and images.
Biography
Resource Center/Opposing Viewpoints
Biography Resource Center's database is made up of nearly 200,000
narrative biographies and over 100,000 thumbnail biographies gathered
from nearly 80 award-winning Gale reference sources as well as full-text
articles from more than 250 magazines.
Gale
Virtual Reference Library (E-BOOKS):
is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference
sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials
once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access
them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library
creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if
you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public
library, or your office).
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social
issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference
content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide
a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access
viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents,
links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles
CQ Press
in Context, (http://cqpress.com/incontext/)a free, nonpartisan
Web site for information on pivotal events and issues shaping today's
world of government and politics.
This site also offers links to other useful and relevant sources
in the "For More Research" box.
Additional topics covered by CQ Press in Context can be accessed
from the home page in the "More Events In Context" box.
CQ
Researcher
offers weekly in-depth reports focused on a controversial subject
covering a wide rance of social, political and environmental issues.
Facts on
File
URL: http://www.factsonfile.com
User name: sacred Password: hearts
Includes the following resources:
• American Women’s History Online
Covers the important people, events, legislation, and issues relevant
to the study of women's history in the United States.
• Science Online
Presents a broad range of scientific disciplines through extensive
definitions, essays, diagrams, biographies, and experiments.
• Curriculum Resource Center
Provides a library of printable teacher handout material for the
middle school and high school curriculum.
Hawaii
State Public Library Catalog
URL: http://www.librarieshawaii.org/catalog/index.html
User id: your library card number
Password: usually the last 4 digits of your tel. no.
Link to the public library system catalogs and databases. Follow
the instructions on the screen to access the various resources.
ProQuest
SIRS Discoverer, an award-winning general reference resource for
beginning learners and researchers in grades 1-9, makes learning
fun and intuitive. Discoverer helps students develop their research,
writing, language, and computer skills. Only the best, most unique,
and most relevant resources are selected for SIRS Discoverer.
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