Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j5C4NlG03195; Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:23:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:23:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <s2ab7ed6.062@BG_NW1.bosglazier.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Carole Bos" <cbos@bosglazier.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:10926] Of Interest to ESL and AdultEd Students X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 1276 Lines: 27 "Cinderella Man," a new fact-based movie by the award-winning team of Ron Howard and Russell Crowe, represents a great learning opportunity for ESL and Adult Ed students. From Depression-era poverty to realistic boxing scenes (in the 1920s and '30s major bouts were fought outdoors), the film presents a host of interesting topics for students and teachers to discuss. To better understand the historical background and context of the movie, students can read the story behind the film, virtually "meet" the real people, and examine National Archive and Library of Congress links to primary sources about the Great Depression, at NIFL-recommended AwesomeStories.com: http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/cinderella_man/cinderella_man_ch1.htm The entire ad-free AwesomeStories web site (which includes hundreds of stories and thousands of primary-resource links) is subscription-based but is free to educators, libraries, academic institutions and ESL/Adult Ed classrooms. Teachers just have to request academic membership on the main page http://www.awesomestories.com/ and a username and password will be sent shortly thereafter. Once you log-on, you and your students can read, and explore, the story behind "Cinderella Man." Carole Bos Editor, AwesomeStories
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