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My Guide to Current Events OrganizerMy Guide to Current Events Organizer
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Educators Publishing Service
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5th - 11th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Year
1995
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My Guide to Current Events

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Keep your youngsters abreast of current events with these activity worksheets! Or, consider what historical events throughout early American history would have looked like on a national newspaper? Your young historians will become journalists of the past with these worksheets, where they will report on a major event and design an appropriate newspaper article on that event using an included template.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

journalism, news media

Additional Tags

news report, journalism, social studies

Classroom Considerations

  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Great way to make history feel more relevant
  • Use for summarizing informational news texts or historical events, or have learners share their articles for a collaborative activity

Cons

  • Cannot download and edit document, so you may need to work with a copy machine to remove some elements (i.e. "Sample pages from My Guide to Current Events")

Common Core

WHST.6-8.2.a WHST.9-10.2.a WHST.11-12.2.a

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