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Reading the News: Worksheet

News-related Activities: Middle and High Schools

Using News in Elementary School (Example: Iraq)

Benefits of using news in the classroom

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Israel's premier has prostrate cancer (Oct. 30, 2007)

Iran's president visits New York

Britain pulls out of Iraq

USING NEWS IN THE CLASSROOM

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www.enisen.com

BENEFITS

·        Relevance - Why is history important?

·        Interest - Connecting the past with the present.

·        Establishing good habits

·        Recognition of historical continuity

a.       Cause and effect

·        Improve language/writing skills

·        Appreciation of a global community

a.       Place of individual/neighborhood /state/nation in wider international context.

·        Sociological benefits

a.       Recognition of differences between “nurture and nature”

                                   i. How we are shaped by our environment.

b.      Appreciation of cultural differences.

·        Debate

a.       Improvement of verbal skills

b.      Develop ability to understand and appreciate varying points of view

·        Interdisciplinary connections

a.       Geography

b.      History

c.      Civics/Politics

d.      Economics

e.      Art

f.       Culture

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