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Current Events Week #3

Grade Level:
7
Subject:
Current Events
Topic:
Current Events Week #3
Objective:
Students will watch a daily news program that shows news that happening around the world.
Students will be able to discuss the importance of the news.
Students will be introduced to the different types of news articles and their sources.
Students will understand the importance of a headline, the 5 W's, and why it is news.
Students will related the events occurring in these articles with where they are located.
Students will use vocabulary related to current events.
Students will hold group debates about new-related topics.
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None entered.
Materials:
channelone.com, (if that doesn't work, use http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/), Current Events Vocabulary List - (7-12), Vocabulary Card Directions, debate topic, 4 debate articels - agree strongly, agree, disagree strongly, or disagree, Current Event Article Assignment, Lap Tops

Students - Map WS (North America/US on one side, World on other.)

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