2. Arrange list in alphabetical order

Keep Calm and do sorting

UnSorted order

El Paso, Texas Saint Nicholas, Belgium The Lord of the Rings Newark, New Jersey XVIIme siècle .38 Special St. Louis, Missouri New York, New York 1001 Arabian Nights The 1-2-3 of Magic Albany, New York #!%&: Creating Comic Books The Hague, Netherlands $35 a Day Through Europe H20: The Beauty of Water Plzen, Czech Republic

Sorted order

#!%&: Creating Comic Books $35 a Day Through Europe 1-2-3 of Magic The 1001 Arabian Nights Albany, New York El Paso, Texas H20: The Beauty of Water The Hague, Netherlands The Lord of the Rings New York, New York Newark, New Jersey Plzen, Czech Republic Saint Nicholas, Belgium St. Louis, Missouri XVIIme siècle

Questions and answers

a.  Did you put The Hague under T or H? I put The Hague under T, firstly because it is place, and secondly  because it’s proper name is “The Hague” b. Did you put El Paso under E or P? El under E. El is still a word, so it is under E c. Which came first in your list, Newark or New York? New York comes first d.  Does St. Louis come before or after Saint Nicholas? I put ST,Lous first, because St. is the abbreviation of Saint  e. How did you handle numbers, punctuation, and special characters? Used the Ascii Table http://www.asciitable.com/ f.  Assuming the italicised terms are book titles, what might be a more useful  way to organize this list? -Put them into categories for example "cities", "Movies" & "Books". And put  them in alphabetically order    using categories g. If the cities represent places you’ve visited and the book  titles are ones - you’ve read, how could chronology be used to order  the list in a more meaningful way? Group the books with books and also places so they would still be in  alphabetical order, but in chronological order within the same category h.  Look at how some of the other students have organised this information and  comment on their blogs