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1. What does the quote at the beginning of the film: “To be educated is not to have arrived at a destination. It is to travel with a different view” mean to you?
It means that education is not always the answer to all problems, but it helps people think from different perspectives in getting solutions to common issues.
2. Where did Jack decide that he needed to go to find information about John Kennedy?
What were two mistakes Jack made with the encyclopedia?
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5. What order did Jack think that the books were in?
6. What did Jack use to find out where the books are located?
7. What would you most likely use for finding books in the FCC or most any other library?
8. What was the name of the index that Jack used to find periodicals?
9. What’s the specific name of one index that you might use to find periodicals at FCC? (Hint: Look-up FCC Library on-line)
10. Jack used microfilm to find information on the Bay of Pigs. What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
11. What is a biography?
12. Jack sees a 3 which Samantha tells him refers to a footnote. (Instead of a footnote, many teachers require in-text notes or end notes. What is the purpose of these types of notes?
13. Since the book Jack wanted wasn’t in the library, what service did he want to use?
Once Jack gets in the university library, he looks in the catalog under the title of the book. What are names of the three other methods of doing a search for a book? (I put first letter of each one below.)
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16. K
17. Jack used CD-ROM and microfilm to find periodical articles. What are CD-ROM and microfilm?
18. Jack realizes that he doesn’t know as much as he thought he did. He says, “I feel like I don’t know anything.” My high school history teacher told us, “The more you know; the more you know you don’t know.” Comment on what you think these statements mean.
19. Jack felt that Kennedy was great because “he learned from his “.
20. As Jack is finishing his research, Ms. Sanchez asks him if he got enough information. Jack says, “No.” What is the reason that he gives for not having enough and what does that tell you as a student that you need to do?
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