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\nCurrent Events Quiz #5: January 2002\n

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\nQuiz your class with 60 true/false questions pertaining to current events. The focus is on current (2002) events occurring in the United States. Some of the questions appear superfluous and have little educational value.\n
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\nNewspapers: A Connection to Our Past\n

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\nStudents discuss current events and importance of understanding historical context for events today. They research current event and its historical context, and plan, shoot, and edit iMovie video essay using AppleWorks storyboard.\n
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\nThe Affect of Music on Visual Images\n

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\nEighth graders consider cross-curricular connections between social studies, singing, and current events. They listen to the song, \"I Can't Cry Hard Enough.\" view scenes from September 11, then create presentations using images, a...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classrooms: Wall Street Financial Meltdown\n

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\nCombine two current events (2008) in one political cartoon. This handout examines the Large Hadron Collider, a scientific invention that caused a sudden fear of black holes, and the financial meltdown on Wall Street. Background...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: What's Next in 2011?\n

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\nExamine the toolbox of political cartoons with this analysis handout, which features a cartoon utilizing satire, sarcasm, and irony as it predicts the current events of 2011. Interestingly, this will also serve to get scholars looking...\n
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\nSpeaking Out About Kosovo\n

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\nInvite your class to reflect on the responsibility of newspapers to act as vehicles for citizens to voice their opinions. Using an article to gain factual info. about gov't strategies in dealing with current events in Kosovo, students...\n
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\nCurrent Events\n

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\nHere is an ongoing activity intended to build interest in local, national, and world news. The class is divided into four groups of approximately five students each. The groups are responsible for monitoring the daily news. They compose...\n
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\nScience Current Events Lessons\n

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\nYou can use current events to increase student understanding of both science concepts and language arts skills.\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Sarcasm, Irony, and Satire\n

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\nSatire, sarcasm, or irony? Editorial cartoons have long been the tool artists use to express their opinions about politics and politicians. Kevin \"Kai\" Kallaugher's four-panel cartoon offers readers an opportunity to examine how he uses...\n
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\nThe Texas Social Studies Controversy\n

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\nExamine the Texas social studies curriculum controversy with your class. Using a current events lesson, learners read the article \"A Christian Land Governed by Christian Principles,\" respond to the discussion questions, and participate...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Higher Education Issues\n

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\nAs your college-bound scholars prepare to leave the nest, this political cartoon analysis will have them thinking about current issues facing their generation. Background information helps them access 2 political cartoons regarding...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Dogging the Dems\n

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\nPolitical cartoons add an element of fun as your scholars study current events in Washington D.C. This analysis handout uses two cartoons to bring learners into discussion about the many issues democrats have concern over as November...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Joseph Wilson Accuses the President\n

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\nGet a fun discussion going with this current events worksheet, which has scholars analyzing 2 political cartoons about an incident in 2009, when Congressman Joseph Wilson accused President Barack Obama of lying during a speech....\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Fair Elections? \n

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\nRigged elections make for both intriguing current events and hilarious political cartoons. In this analysis worksheet, pupils read background information to help them grasp a cartoon about rigged presidential elections in 2007 by Russia,...\n
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\nCartoons for the Classroom: Politics of Change\n

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\nEmpty rhetoric in Washington timelessly inspires political cartoons. Examine this concept through an analysis handout, which features a cartoon by Pat Oliphant (archived work is linked for possible extension activities). Although this...\n
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\nThe 'Question of Palestine'\n

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\nNew York Times covers hot topics and current events, now you may use those articles to help young people become more aware. Kids read an article regarding the Israeli-Palestinian agreement and the prospect of Palestine joining the UN....\n
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\nQaddafi Is Dead in Libya\n

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\nThe New York Times posted an article titled, \"Qaddafi Is Dead in Libya\" back in 2011. Your class gets a chance to read that article to better understand current events and increase their reading comprehension. After reading the article,...\n
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\nNews Quiz l May 26, 2011\n

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\nAlthough this online current events quiz is based on May of 2011, it offers a chance for scholars to sharpen their media literacy skills and is available on a daily basis on this site. There are five multiple-choice questions covering a...\n
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\nNews Quiz l Sept. 19, 2011\n

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\nEven though this online current events quiz is based on news from September 2011, it offers a chance for scholars to sharpen their media literacy skills and is available on a daily basis on this site. Scholars answer five multiple-choice...\n
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\nConflicted Feelings About Government Benefits\n

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\nGovernment spending on social programs in the US is a big topic. It is also the current event kids will read about as they delve into this issue of the New York Times. They'll read the article, then answer seven comprehension questions....\n
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\nWriting Exercises: Conflicts and Change in the Middle East, #2\n

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\nA lot has been going on in the Middle East over the past 20 years. Your class can read and then write to describe the US and Soviet involvement in the Iran-Iraq War, the impact of Islamic fundamentalism on world politics, and Egypt's...\n
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\nCurrent Events Poster\n

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\nIn this language arts worksheet, students choose a current event topic and look for newspaper and magazine articles. Kids read the articles, highlight key points and important words, take notes and write a summary. Students design a...\n
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\nPictographic Poetry of Current Events\n

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\nStudents discuss recent currents events as a class. Using one of the events, they write a poem about how they feel about the event in question. They choose specific symbols that relate to event and write a poem about it as well. They...\n
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\nCurrent Events Lesson Plan 10\n

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\nStudents take a closer look at world events. For this current events lesson, students discuss the role of the newspaper throughout history. Students also discern which sources for news are credible and look at international newspapers...\n
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