Topics and Links for Things Fall Apart Mini-Research

Topics:
Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart (criticism and reviews)
Ibo culture & traditions (music & dance, food, religion, family)
Colonialism in Nigeria
human sacrifice & cannibalism
Nigeria today

Links:
Portals to the World: Nigeria
Online Nigeria
NationMaster: Nigeria
Amazon.com: Things Fall Apart
Reading Room: Things Fall Apart Review

Creating a Personal Portaportal for Literacy 9

Your assignment for today is to create a Portaportal with links to 15 or more resources that will be helpful for Explorations Board research.

(1) Please begin by checking the Literacy 9 links at www.guest.portaportal.com/ray_wirth and bookmarking links to those sites that you feel are most useful, based on the web site criteria we have been discussing.

(2) Next use the following search terms on Google.com and investigate the sites you receive as results. Don't stop with page 1 of the results. Dig deeper:

Online Encyclopedia

Online dictionary

History resources

Science resources

Another site for Consideration: (See especially history and science headings):

EducationIndex.com

(3) Create your own Portaportal by going to www.portaportal.com and creating an account. (If you are unable to create a Portaportal account for any reason, please save your links as an organized set of desktop "bookmarks" instead.

(4) I'll check your work next time. Good luck!

Essay on Wild Places (Links)

Boston Globe Article: At Loggerheads Over Maine Woods

Forest Ecology Network: Maine Woods National Park

Evaluating Online Resources II

Evaluating Online sources: 5-Question quiz

Misleading Websites

More misleading sites.