Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Using Thinkfinity

For this assignment I used an article from Thinkfinity about Route 66. I actually couldn’t find a whole lot to use on the site. I am currently teaching Slaughterhouse 5, for which there wasn’t any material to choose, and The Grapes of Wrath, for which there were 10-15 different sources to use. I picked this article from The National Geographic because we had just finished the chapters that bring the Joad family from Oklahoma to California. The article was interesting and did a good job of acting as a starting point for a discussion of symbolic imagery from the chapters the students had read. In the future I will see if there are more materials available for my ELD Reading class. I think this site is useful for those times when you need to find a good activity and cant think of anything.

Posted by at
Labels:

1 comment:

  1. LexieFebruary 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM

    I agree with you, Anthony, that there was not a whole lot of useable material on Thinkfinity, at least for what I was looking for. I also found it spotty with regard to the functionality of the search feature.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)