Message from lculp

[Anonymous]

I've always found my ideas about Marco Polo a bit murky, I thought it had been because I didn't pay much attention in class, but perhaps it was because I never really got the facts.

When one is teaching students how to discover truth through history and literature it is important to give them opportunities to figure out how. The Marco Polo conspiracy theory would be a great way to demonstrate that just because something is written it is not an absolute truth. An expository or persuasive essay that uses the article clawson provided (thank you), the history books, and the internet would be an amazing way to engage students in the language arts standards while at the same time encouraging them to think critically about information presented to them in the form of books, speeches, advertisements or such.