Cross-Curricular Connections

In the story you read, Zora Neale Hurston describes her desire to explore. She wants to visit the end of the world with her friend. Click on the link below to learn about another explorer, Christopher Columbus, the man many people credit with discovering North America.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/famouspeople/standard/columbus/index.shtml#focus

Zora Neale Hurston grew up in central Florida. If she had tried to travel to the end of the world, she probably would have come to the ocean. She might have come to the Florida Keys, a strand of islands off mainland Florida. Click on the link below to learn about the Florida Keys and to listen to a radio story about one man’s trip across them.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/keys/