The Lexus and the Olive Tree (understanding globalization) By Thomas Friedman

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and author of the  current best-seller “The World is Flat”

 

Book Review Project and Test Summer Project – Read the book and set up your book review pages as follows:

1. cover (be creative…)

2. Outline simply three major themes or thesis points of this book- one paragraph each

3. Pick your favorite Chapter and give an explanation of it and why it was your favorite

4. Pretend you are a Houston Chronicle book reviewer for the Sunday ZEST magazine section. Write a one page review to people who have not read the book – do you recommend it?

5. Cut out a Wall Street Journal article that relates to this book in some way. Mount the article neatly on your back page with a paragraph connecting the article to the book.

Test is short answer – 20 of 25 are chosen+ a bonus.

Barbara Falcon  ( bfalcon@houstonisd.org )

AP Microeconomics/Macroeconomics