SPELLBOUND
DOCUMENTARY
Homework
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Information to assist with the work:
- Website about spelling: http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/
- Book about the history of English spelling and why it makes it hard for kids to learn to read in English: D. McGuinness’s Why Our Children Can't Read, and What We Can Do about It (1997)
- Colorful book with a chapter on the history of English: D. Crystal’s Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
- Blank outline maps of the USA: http://www.50states.com/maps/usamap.htm
- Some basic info about regions of the US: http://library.thinkquest.org/4552/
- Distribution of ethnic groups across the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States
- Information about American history and Immigration: H. Zinn’s People’s History of the United States
- Website about the history of settlement and immigration in the USA (with translations of the article in many languages): http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2008/February/20080307112004ebyessedo0.1716272.html
- More information about spelling bees: http://www.spellingbee.com/