Name:  ____________________________________________________  Class: ____

 

African Country Report – Reference books                                     Country:  _________________

 

ENCYCLOPEDIAs

GENERAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

Find your country in the WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA (light blue).  What letter volume?  ____

 

            Find the chart called Facts in Brief      What are some Chief Products  _____________________________

 

            Find the section called History. What is one important date  _________________________________________

 

            Who is the author of this article:  ______________________________

 

Some have RELATED ARTICLES at the end.  If yours does, does it list some famous people? 

 List some who might be of interest

 

SPECIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

Find your country in the JUNIOR WORLDMARK ENCYCLOPEDIA of NATIONS  (green)

 

Find section 4: Plants and Animals    List some:  _______________________________

 

Is there a map?  _______

 

Find the last section 34 Famous…………..

list some that might be of interest

 

 

SPECIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

Find you country in the PEOPLES OF AFRICA (light green)  What volume?  ________

 

Find the timeline at the bottom of the pages.  Write down an important event and its date: _______________________

 

SPECIFIC ENCYCLOPEDIA

Find you country in the PEOPLES OF AFRICA (red and mustard)

 

What region of Africa is your country in?  _________________________

 

CULTUREGRAMS

 

Find your country.  In the middle is a section on Gestures – Write down one interesting fact

 

 

 

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Write out the bibliographic format for the World Book Encyclopedia

You found the author already – Follow this pattern

Author (last name, first name) [period]   Country (in quotation marks)[period]  World Book Encyclopedia, 2002 ed.