Posting Your Drafts

Researchers and Scholars,

Today you should be wrapping up your online research in class and be prepared to submit a substantial draft by the end of the morning.

Your options for submitting your work include:
1. Posting a comment to this blog.
2. Emailing a copy of your essay to me at bishopVIP at gmail dot com
3. Printing a copy of your essay
4. Hand-writing a copy of your essay

Historical Articles and Reviews

To round out our revolutionary research project,
you are directed to the HISTORICAL NEW YORK TIMES online at:
http://hn.bigchalk.com/hnweb/hn/do/search

If your artist is very contemporary (still working),
check out the current NEW YORK TIMES online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/

Keep your focus simple:
1. Biographical - Key moments from artist's life story
2. Artistic Noterity - Key artistic works and claims to fame
3. Lasting Impact - What makes this person "revolutionary"?

Drafts due tomorrow!

Digging Deeper

To aid in your continued research on revolutionary artists,
navigate through the following links:

ArtLex Art Dictionary -
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html

New York Public Library Databases by Subject Area -
http://wfsearch.webfeat.org/clients/nypl/nyplallsubjects.asp

Fine Art Database -
www.artincontext.org

Arts Database @ Yale -
www.library.yale.edu/art/databases.html

Arts Database @ MIT -
libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/art/index.html

Substantial first drafts need to be submitted by Thursday!

Citing Internet Sources

To find success with research, you must synthesize your information and express it in your own words!

NO COPY AND PASTE!
This is called "plagiarism" - it can get you kicked out of school and can get you in deep trouble with the original writer! So if you don't want to be running from a pack of angry scholars, be sure you read the following.

**For each internet source that you access, you must be sure to document:**
- the website
- the author
- the date of publication
- the date of access

Example of properly documented internet source:

Structure:
Author or originator. Title of item. [Online] Date of document or download (day, month, year). URL http://address/filename.

Example:
U.S. Census Bureau. "American FactFinder: Facts About My Community." [Online] 17 August 2001. <http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet>.

For information go to: http://www.classroom.com/community/connection/howto/citeresources.jhtml
or
http://www.mla.org/

Project Outline

Below you will find the outline for your project.

Be sure that you are keeping track of your internet sources.
IMDB, Wikipedia, and Google are good places to start, but they are not "expert" websites.
If you need help finding information, try the databases at the New York Public Library:
www.nypl.org or http://wfsearch.webfeat.org/clients/nypl/nyplsubjects.asp

Assigning Artists

Congratulations!

You are officially a 21st century student embarking on a new media project!



Listed below are student-artist assignments.

If after your first day of research you are unsatisfied with you assignment, you may propose a different revolutionary artist.



Shawn - Jackson Pollack (Visual Artist)

Hashiim - Tupac Shakur (Musician)

Wyette - The Last Poets (Musicians and Poets)

Leonard - Andy Warhol (Visual Artist)

Simone - Dorothy Dandridge (Actress)

Sylvia - Salvador Dali (Visual Artist)

Jesus - Banksy (Visual Artist)

Jonathan - Piri Thomas (Writer and Performer)

Abeliz - Katherine Dunham (Dancer and Choreographer)

Ali - Sidney Poitier (Actor)

Marc - Pablo Neruda (Poet)

Antaya - Gwendolyn Brooks (Poet)

Barbara - Diana Ross (Vocalist)

Charlene - Frida Kahlo (Visual Artist)

Jessica - Audre Lorde (Poet and Performer)

Demetrice - Diana Ross (Vocalist)

Raheem - Spike Lee (Filmmaker)

Olajuwon - Jean-Michel Basquiat (Visual Artist)

Kevin - Jimmy Hendrix (Musician)

Mariann - Rita Moreno (Singer, Dancer, Actress)

Mariah - Arthur Ashe (Tennis Player, Activist)

Vincent - John Cage (Composer and Visual Artist)

Ariel - Kara Walker (Visual Artist)

Gregory - Richard Pryor (Actor)

Precious - Pablo Picasso (Visual Artist)

Billie - La Monte Young (Minimalist Composer)

Carla - Nikki Giovanni (Poet)

Amanda - William S. Burroughs (Author)

Raymond - Nina Simone (Vocalist)

Jorge - Keith Moon (Drummer)

Manuela - Suzan-Lori Parks (Playwright)

Kathy - Billie Holiday (Vocalist)