Friday, October 19, 2012

Book - Four American inventors


Four American Inventors (Yesterday's Classics)
 
    Do old books lose their value?  If the book is Four American inventors, one could say no.  Written in language for children, the book offers a simple biography of four of America's great inventors from the Industrial Revolution era - Edison, Fulton, Morse, and Whitney.  Making this selection even nicer is that it is available for reading online for free!  For a class of students with intermediate and higher English language proficiency, I would assign a book report for one inventor.  Students with lower English language proficiency would write a report on one chapter of an inventor.  I would probably have the class vote for one or two inventors, so that I could create some type of outline or reading guide for the text.
 
Perry, F. M. (1901). Four American inventors. Retrieved from
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