First read:
English version of Cinderella
Then read:
The Egyptian “Cinderella”
The Chinese “Cinderella”
The Native American “Cinderella”
Then complete an online interactive Venn Diagram comparing the three stories.
Leave a comment saying which version you like best and why:
I liked ____________________ because ___________________.
Watch any of the movies at this site (be sure to put the captions on, and please don’t watch the ones in Spanish until you’ve watched all the English ones, first):
Brainpop Free Movies
Here’s an exceptional interactive on the Census.
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the hardest, how easy or hard were the questions for you?
Leave your answer on the comments section, and write a complete sentence.
Think about the kinds of things you are most interested in — Hmong life, soccer, novella’s, cars, etc.
Then go to Newscred. You will create your own online newspaper that only has articles on the things you’re interested in.
Mr. Ferlazzo and Ms. Hull will show you on the projector how to set-up you paper. [...]
Please find new items for each of these three categories:
Health Effects of Smoking
Costs Of Smoking
Quitting Smoking
You can find them here:
Smoking Kills and Smoking May Be Banned In Cars are two articles with audio support and follow-up activities from the excellent California Distance Learning Project. They are specifically designed for English Language Learners.
ELLO has a listening [...]
Last week, 4,000 Hmong refugees were forced by the Thailand military to return to Laos.
Read more about what happened at these links:
Thailand Evicts Hmong Refugees is the title of a slideshow from The Wall Street Journal.
Reuters has an online video clip on the eviction.
After forced evacuation, local Hmong fear for their families in Laos is [...]
