Assigment 1: World Book

Because I teach Honors and AP English classes at the high school level, I went straight to the World Book Advanced site. I had never really considered World Book as a research site for my students, so I was amazed to discover how much World Book has to offer! First I looked at Lesson Plans and found something right away that I could use. The lesson on teaching cartoon analysis would work well with my unit on satire. The lesson comes complete with a worksheet and information on how to site this page. Another useful feature is the citation builder. I will direct my students to this handy tool next week when I assign their research paper! I think they may also find World Book's timeline useful. And the Online Reference Center is very helpful for the research my students do. I started out skeptical that I would find much use for an online encyclopedia and discovered I'm wrong!