Message from mferl

[Anonymous]

A good resource for language arts, history, and social science teachers is "Travels of Marco Polo," of which there are many editions. One suitable for teachers is the older one in the Everyman Library, 1911 (1936 reprint), with an introduction by John Masefield; it has many fascinating footnotes and a good index, but small print.
Your students would benefit from reading excerpts describing the many customs of different peoples in asia. Caution, not all of them are true (or suitable!) but certainly entertaining and stimulating.
In later posts, I'll describe some of Marco's more intriguing observations.

magda