I just became aware of A Young People’s History of the United States,a version of Howard Zinn’s classic targeted towards younger readers. I haven’t seen the book myself yet, but I suspect that it would work well with English learners, too.
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A Young People’s History of the United States
February 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: human rights · fair trade · maps · k-12 · history · racism · child labor · food and hunger · global issues activities · reading · war · politics · poverty & wealth · blog
Odds and Ends (Documentaries, Strange Maps, and more!)
September 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments
Here are a bunch of quick links that I have been meaning to post for a while:
Strange Maps is a great blog that features, well, strange maps. The pictures are really interesting, and the accompanying text is usually informative. A Road Map to Success and Bridge to Nowhere: a Map of Golden Gate […]
Tags: cultural issues · visual prompts · maps · poverty & wealth · consumerism · global issues activities · finance · video · blog
Worldmapper
July 15th, 2009 · 6 Comments
Worldmapper has a large collection of world maps that display various issues in a simple yet effective way. They expand each country to illustrate their share in a given issue. For example, the map below illustrates each country’s proportion of the world’s child labor.
Worldmapper has maps on many, many topics, including poverty, gender […]
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