Current Events

The world is an ever-changing realm of new ideas, inventions, events, or perspectives. When people care and know about the world in which they live, they are better equipped to understand and improve it. To that end, we have a current events time on most days. Each day, one student per table serves as the "host" by providing an article and facilitating the discussion.

Do current events on paper, with adult discussion for the week of October 17 to 20, 2016

Do steps 1 and 2 and 3 below, then fill out and have a discussion with a person over 18. They add their comment and signature.

Preparing for Your In Class Current Events Session:

1. In order to prepare for this, you (students) must make it a practice to browse a good news source (newspaper, magazine, news-site) routinely and find an article of interest and appropriate complexity and worthy of discussion. Although the occasional human interest story is ok, please avoid gossip, tabloid, and pop-star topics.

2. Read your article carefully, write up a summary paragraph and a discussion questions. This should be a 30 minute investment of your time and effort.

3. Then, on "your day", arrange your table into "one on an edge" formation, then introduce your topic to your group and read your summary and excerpts from the article.

4. Engage your table in a discussion about the article and facilitate that discussion in a proper and productive manner.

the form

Weeks of February 5 to 9, and February 12 to 16, 2018

General Current Events Websites

1. http://tweentribune.com/tween78

   1. http://www.newsela.com (use class code SNNKO)

2. http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/

• 1. BBC

  2. New York Times

  3. Reuters

  4. Here is an article and list about unbiased reporting

  5. Aljazeera America. http://america.aljazeera.com/

3. Cartoons in the Classroom

Science Current Events (websites):

• 1. http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/ (Science News magazine)

  2. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/interest/id/3/topic/Science_News_For_Kids ()

  3. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html (New York Times newspaper)

  4. http://www.dogonews.com/category/science (DoGo News)

  5. http://scienceworld.scholastic.com/ (Science World magazine)

Grading:

It is a 5 point assignment but kids can get 6 points.

2 points for having the article printed out (if they only have a link to it or just the text copied to a doc, they get 1 point)

2 points for having a summary that they wrote

2 points for having discussion questions written out.

Not Current Current Events (eg. searching old newspapers)

• 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9oKtErzWU (how-to video)