Scope Links for October 19, 2009
Here are some recommended links to help you form pre-reading and extension activities for each article in this issue.
Your World, p. 3
- “Calling All Writers”
- National Day on Writing
www.galleryofwriting.org - “Jonas Brother Raises Voice”
- Diabetes Research Institute
www.diabetesresearch.org - “Literature + Twitter = Twitterature”
- Official site
www.twitterature.us - “Dickens’s England”
- Official documentary site, includes trailer
www.charlesdickensengland.co.uk
Readers Theater Play: “William Wilson,” p. 6
- The Poe Museum, includes bio and educational resources
www.poemuseum.org
Book Roundup: “Frightening Fiction,” p. 13
- History of the mystery
www.mysterynet.com/timeline - Halloween horror tales and lesson ideas for middle school
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3748062 - Interactive Goosebumps video games, stories, and more
www.scholastic.com/Goosebumps/games_activities/index.htm
Nonfiction: “A Growing Trend,” p. 14
- Obamas Plant a Garden and Set the Tone for What We Eat—also: teaching a history of food
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/pacificnw/2009407611_pacificptaste05.html - Michelle Obama’s White House gardening blog, with link to the garden layout
www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/03/20/spring-gardening - The Green Teen Community Gardening Program
www.greenteen.org - Article about Victory Gardens during World War II
www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html - Teens 4 Good
www.teens4good.orbius.com
- Short bio of Dorothea Lange
www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/text/port_lange_text.html - Dorothea Lange—interview transcript
www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/lange64.htm - Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Journey
www.artseal.ypguides.net/page/15klg/Figurative_Portraiture_Special_Exhibits.html - Dorothea Lange: Photographs
www.masters-of-photography.com/L/lange/lange.html - The Other Migrant Mother
www.openphotographyforums.com/art_MICHAEL_STONES_001.php - Women Come to the Front: Dorothea Lange
www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html - How They Found National Geographic’s “Afghan Girl"
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/03/0311_020312_sharbat.html - NASA
www.nasa.gov
You Be the Editor: “Taylor-Made Tales,” p. 18
- Official site
www.taylorswift.com
Vocabulary: SCOPE 100 Wordhunt on William Blake, p. 23
- Project Blake, includes video, bio, gallery, and more
http://projectblake.org
- Article about how to make a graphic novel/comic book–theme lesson plan. Includes links to Columbia University’s Comic Book Project
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3749300
