EDSITEment - Thinkfinity's Content Partner site for the humanities, developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities - was recently recognized by the American Library Association (ALA) as a Top 25 Site for Teaching and Learning. EDSITEment joins Thinkfinity and ReadWriteThink which received the recognition in 2009. Please join me in congratulating the entire EDSITEment team!
EDSITEment is also featured in the ALA's Programming Librarian blog. The article includes a great collection of EDSITEment's Summertime Favorites, including resources around the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. .
To honor the anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s masterpiece, EDSITEment has updated two lessons: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: Profiles in Courage and To Kill A Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Boys Trial: Profiles in Courage. We have also reviewed resources that will enhance your students’ understanding of what author Mary McDonagh Murphy, in her book, Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of 50 Years of To Kill a Mockingbird, considers “our national novel.” Banned from the shelves of certain libraries while being voted as the best novel of the twentieth century by American librarians, and often cited by readers of all ages as the book that had the most profound influence on them, Mockingbird continues to stir emotions, create controversy, and transform the lives of everyone it touches.
