Carter


 * If you were to research any topic, what would it be? Pizza
 * What do you want to learn about your topic? How it was invented, who was the first to make it, what place makes the best
 * Create a thesis statement about your topic that encompasses what you would like to learn. ﻿Pizza is unknown to most people who love it, but I want to dig deeper into the Italian tradition.
 * DATABASE SEARCH: Try searching your topic in the Library databases.
 * 1) What did you find? Athenians claimed to have invented, but Naples, Italy introduced it to the World. Original Neapolitan pizza was served on round dough with tomato, cheese, onion, often anchovies. Arrived to Britian in the 1950s. Name most closely came from Provençal //pissaladière//, a dough base covered generally with onions, olives, and anchovies. Italians think name might have somehow came from France. //Pizza// means pie.
 * 2) Identify which database you used. Oxford Reference
 * 3) Create the MLA citation for the two best sources. "pizza" //An A-Z of Food and Drink//. Ed. John Ayto. Oxford university Press, 2002. //Oxford Reference Online//. Oxford University Press. Creighton Preparatory High School. 27 September 2011 []
 * (no other available sources)


 * SEARCH ENGINE SEARCH: Using the search engine of your choice conduct another search on your topic.
 * 1) How many results did you get? 109,000,000
 * 2) From your results identify three that you think are the best choices for your topic.
 * 3) Bookmark your sources in your Diigo account.
 * 4) Create an MLA citation for each source.
 * "Pizza's Colorful History". //About Pizza.com.// Omni Visions, 2011. Web. September 29, 2011.
 * I chose this source because this website was all about pizza. It had pizza blogs, pizza polls, how to cook pizza and so on. It supported my thesis because it really dug deep into pizza. The website would not only tell me about pizza's history, but would tell me how pizza is praised today.
 * Bellis, Mary. "History of Pizza". //Inventors.About.com.// 2011. Web. September 29, 2011.
 * I chose this source because it was an online encyclopedia. This website has everything I needed to put together a paper about pizza. It also supported my thesis by giving me in-depth descriptions of where pizza came from and who most likely invented it.
 * "Pizza History". //In Mamas Kitchen.// Web. September 29, 2011.
 * I chose this source because it described my topic thoroughly. It told me how pizza may have got its name, how early Italians would've made it, and where it originated. It supports my thesis because it describes pizza beyond what I thought initially. It gave many examples of what pizza might've looked like, tasted like, and served.
 * 1) Below each citation write a paragraph explaining why you chose that source and how it supports your thesis.
 * 2) Cut and paste one sentence from the text that you would quote to support your thesis.
 * Even though we have yet to uncover archeological evidence of a Dominos Pizza before the last century, it is known the Babylonians, Israelites, Egyptians and other ancient Middle Eastern cultures were eating flat, un-leaven bread that had been cooked in mud ovens.
 * The first pizzeria in North America was opened in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi at 53 1/3 Spring Street in New York City.
 * This became Queen Margherita's favorite pizza and when word got out that this was one of the queen's favorite foods, she became even more popular with the Italian people. She also started a culinary tradition, the Pizza Margherita, which lasts to this very day in Naples and has now spread throughout the world.