Pathfinders   

 

 

A pathfinder is a collected group of online resources aimed towards saving students time as they search for valid and useful information on a specific topic.  Please click on the following links to be taken to pathfinders for some of your teachers' projects:

 

World Literature

The Crucible

House on Mango Street

Careers

Bernard Malamud's The Natural

Holocaust Pictures

Famous Speeches

Chinese Culture

Of Mice and Men

Images

                   


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Pathfinder for World Literature Project

Information on Countries

National Geographic Country Facts

Country Insights

Countries of the World

Students of the World - Country Facts

 

Literature

Google Directory of World Literature Links

Winthrop World Literature Links

Worldwide Folklore & Mythology

Wikipedia Literature by Country

Poetry Around the World

 

 

Music

Allmusic.com's World Music Page

National Geographic World Music (Search by Region)

University of Washington - Ethnomusicology* Page

MTV International

*ethnomusicology = "study of music from different ethnicities"! J

 

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Pathfinder for House On Mango Street Project

Websites for  the "Class Cultures" topic:

 

The Aztecs 

Washington State University: The Aztecs

 Washington State University: The Mayans

 Mexico History: The Spanish Conquest

 Conquistadors

 Ethnic Diversity in Mexico

 Who are the people of Mexico?

 

Websites for  the "Celebrations" topic:

CutureGrams Entry: Mexican Holidays*

 

Mexican National Holidays - Official and Religious

 

Calendar of Mexican Holidays and Fiestas


*Students will need to use a password to login to this database if using it from home.

 

 

Websites for  the "Art and Literature" topic:

 

National Museum of Mexican Art

 Frida Kahlo

 Diego Rivera

 Sandra Cisneros

 Sandra Benitez

 

 

Websites for  the "Social/Political Movements" topic:

 

The Cesar E. Chavez Foundation Homepage

 

United Farm Workers Homepage

 

The Fight in the Fields; Cesar Chavez Page by PBS

 

 

 

Websites for  the "Dual Identity" topic:

MSN Encarta: Mexican-Americans

 

Is There A Such Thing as Latino Identity?

 

           

 

Websites for  the "Immigration" topic:

Smithsonian United States-Mexico Borderlands/Frontera

 

Border Counties Coalition **

 

 

** Be sure to click on the side tab reading: "At the Cross Roads: US/Mexico Border Counties in Transition"

 

Websites for  the "Family Structure" topic:

 

CultureGrams Entry on Mexican Families*

CultureGrams Entry on Mexican Religion*

CultureGrams Entry on Mexican Economy*

CultureGrams Entry on Mexican General Attitudes*

Mexican Families With Aging Parents

 


*Students will need to use a password to login to this database if using it from home.

 

General Sites with information on Mexican and Mexican-American culture:

(These sites will often cover more than one of the topics listed above!)

Mexico - Language, Culture, Customs and Etiquette

National Geographic - Mexico

Mexican Immigration

Statistics on Mexico 

Facts About Mexico

Encyclopedia Smithsonian: U.S. Latino History and Culture 

MSN Encarta : Mexico

 

 

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Pathfinder for "The Crucible"

      

 Note: In the literary criticism essay links, scroll down to see the full text of the article!

 

Sparknotes Detailed Analysis of John Proctor

"History and Other Specters in 'The Crucible"

"Literary Context in Plays: Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'"

"Society vs. The Individual in Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'"

"William T. Liston on John Proctor's Playing"

"John Proctor's Playing in 'The Crucible'"

Bloom's Notes Summary and Analysis

Bloom's Notes Thematic and Structural Analysis

 

 

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Pathfinder for Career Research

 

U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Career Information Homepage

America's Career InfoNet Occupation Search

JobStar Guides to Specific Careers

College Board Majors & Careers

Career Overviews

 

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Pathfinder for Bernard Malamud's The Natural

 

 

Georgetown University Article

Sparknotes of The Natural

Teacher's Guide to The Natural

 

 

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Holocaust Picture Pathfinder

 

 

Holocaust Survivors: Photo Gallery

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jews in Pre-war Germany

The Holocaust Children (click on links, left side of page)

The Auschwitz Children (click on links, left side of page)

Children of the Holocaust

Museum of Tolerance: Meet Other Children

 

 

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Famous Speeches Pathfinder

 

 

American Rhetoric Speech Bank

American Rhetoric Top 100 Speeches

Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches From Around the World

The History Place: Great Speeches Collection

 

 

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Chinese Culture Pathfinder for Joy Luck Club

 

Indo-China War

 

First Indochina war

Remembering A War: The 1962 India-China Conflict

War in the Himalayas

The 1962 Sino-Indian War

MSN Encarta: Kuomintang

Infoplease: Kuomintang

Family Relationships

 

Immigrants Find Parenting in the U.S. Challenging, Confusing

The Traditional Chinese Family and Lineage

 Chinese Culture: Role of Family

Chinese Culture: Family Characteristics

Chinese Family

 

Women and Marriage

 

Women in China: Past and the Present

The Woman's Role in Chinese History and Tradition

Female and Male: Different but Equal

Chinese Marriage

Chinese Footbinding

Painful Memories for China's Footbinding Survivors

 

Chinese Immigrants/Immigration Experience

 

Immigration: The Chinese

Chinese Immigration to the United States 1876 - 1900

The History of Chinese Immigration

PBS Viewer's Guide to "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience"

Chinese Immigration to the United States

 

Chinatown Culture

 

History of San Francisco Chinatown

Brief History of San Francisco's Chinatown

The Chinese: Facts for Atlantic Papers 1874

Chinatown History

San Francisco Chinatown: Chinese in California

 

 

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Of Mice and Men Pathfinder

 

Stock Market Crash / The Great Depression

About the Great Depression

Depression in the United States: An Overview

The Great Depression

PBS Timeline: The Stock Market Crash

 

The Dust Bowl

About the Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl Timeline

Farming in the 1930's

 

 

Farm & Ranch Jobs

Farm Labor in the 1930's

An American Exodus

 

Itinerant / Migrant workers

The Migrant Experience

Picture This: The Depression Era

 

Herbert Hoover

Biography of Herbert Hoover

Hoover Museum Digital Archives

HW Wilson Biography

(Note: In HW Wilson, search "Hoover, Herbert" for results!)

 

Hoovervilles

MSN Encarta: Hoovervilles

Hoovervilles

Hoovervilles During the Great Depression

 

Discrimination

Issues of Race in the 1930's

American Women Through Time: 1930's

African American History and Women: 1930-1939

 

 

Daily Life

America in the 1930's

1930's History

American History - 1930-1939

Then and Now: Prices and Wages

City Life in the Great Depression

 

 

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Pathfinder for Image Searching

 

Altavista Exalead Images
AOLSearch Fotosearch Info
Bing Gettyimages Metacrawler
Boogami Guruji Monstercrawler
    Quintura

 

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