At the end of many reading selections in The Art of Critical Reading, you will find one or more suggested Internet activities. These are included in the online learning center and CD-ROM for your convenience, along with additional resources and activities.
Although we have checked each site prior to publication, websites do come and go and URL addresses change. If the specific Internet site mentioned in the activity is no longer available, then try to find a similar site.
Try using a search engine such as Google to find the original website or another website that addresses the same topic. Remember to use your critical reading skills to evaluate the quality of any websites.
Many textbooks have an Internet site. The website for Art Across Time, the textbook used in the art history class mentioned in the text (page 5), is:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072450061
Go to this website and see what additional resources are available. Are any of these resources potentially useful to you? Describe a feature that might prove useful if you were taking an art history class.
The website below gives you additional information about Marian Wright Edelman’s background:
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_marian_wright_edelman.htm.
Visit this site, and then write a short paragraph about what you find interesting about Edelman’s life.
Use a search engine to locate information about one of the following individuals mentioned in Edelman’s commencement speech: Sojourner Truth, Howard Thurman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Einstein, Rabbi Abraham Heschel.
What contributions did the individual you selected make to American society?
For information about Parkinson’s disease and the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, go to its website: http://www.michaeljfox.org
Based on what you read there, write a paragraph about what’s new in Parkinson’s research.
Two other organizations dealing with Parkinson’s are:
The Parkinson’s Disease Foundation: http://www.pdf.orgThe National Parkinson Foundation: http://www.parkinson.org
Go to the website of one of these organizations, and write a paragraph about its mission and activities.
In 1927, Time magazine, having failed to run a cover story on Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight to Paris, selected him as the first Man of the Year. The designation was deemed “neither an honor nor an award, but a recognition of influence, be it for good or for ill.” In that light, Adolf Hitler was named Man of the Year in 1938 and Ayatollah Khomeini Man of the Year in 1979. In 1982, tradition was broken when the personal computer was chosen, and in 1988 the pick was endangered Earth. Other recent selections besides Mayor Rudolph Giuliani are George Bush, Ted Turner, Bill Clinton, Pope John Paul II, and George W. Bush.
Go to the Time Magazine Person of the Year website—http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/—click on POY archive, and find a person of the year that you would like to know more about.
Print out the first page of the article and if possible a copy of the cover page of that issue of Time. Write a short paragraph describing why the person was chosen.
Visit the Norman Rockwell Museum website—http://www.nrm.org/eyeopener/—and explore the Eye Opener feature. Select an image that appeals to you, and answer the questions provided on the website.
