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Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien
The Golden Compass Phillip Pullman

Ray Bradbury (short story)
All Summer in a Day (video)
Length: 28
Grade/Interest Level: 9 - 13+
Company: LEARNING CORP OF AMERICA/MTI
Production Year: 1982

The Giver by Lois Lowry
read by the group and discussed using Socratic Method


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The introduction to Virtual Worlds started with reading to the students passages from good stories that discribe virtual realities.  We read several chapters from several books and a Ray Bradbury short story. We also watched the video of the Bradbury short story and did a "compare and contrast". (See box)


Introduction--overview

 

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