Weekly News Quiz for Students
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Super Bowl LV, C.E.O Shakeups, Vaccinations
Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
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Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
Compiled by John Otis and
Does your family have pandemic rules about screen use, wearing masks or seeing friends? Do you find it hard to abide by them?
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In this lesson, students will learn about struggles that grocery workers face. Then, they will become reporters and learn about working conditions in grocery stores in their communities.
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This New York Times feature invites readers to tell love stories from their own lives in no more than 100 words. Let your students give it a try.
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Should your school year end with in-person learning that extends through the summer? Why or why not?
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Ahead of our popular annual Student Editorial Contest, we want to hear how you’ve taught — or learned — with the work of our winners.
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Join us on Feb. 11 as we walk through our Student Editorial Contest and share resources and mentor texts for teaching argumentative writing with The Times.
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Recent Student Opinion and Picture Prompts, categorized by topic, to help students discover the issues that matter to them.
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We invite students to choose an issue or question in science, technology, engineering, math or health, then write an engaging 500-word explanation. Contest Dates: Jan. 19-March 2, 2021.
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A flexible, seven-unit program based on the real-world writing found in newspapers, from editorials and reviews to personal narratives and informational essays.
We invite both STEM and humanities teachers to consider ways to inject more life into what is perhaps the least-loved genre of academic writing.
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Writing prompts, lesson plans, webinars, mentor texts and a culminating contest, all to inspire your students to tell us what matters to them.
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In this unit, students explore a kind of composing that may be new to them but which draws on skills they’ve practiced all year. The sequence culminates in a creative challenge they can do from home.
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Honoring “voice and choice” all summer long, with help from our 10-week contest and many other Times and Learning Network resources.
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In this lesson, students will use more than 200 photographs to learn about the protests that swept across the United States in late May and June.
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This companion guide invites families, students and educators to have a conversation about the goals of public education in America … and the relationship between race, social class and a quality education.
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To help teachers make the most of these films, we also provide a grab-bag of teaching ideas, related readings and student activities.
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Putting the demonstrations into a larger context, with help from The Times and other news and educational organizations.
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Did you ever feel that someone or some group on the internet was trying to persuade you to believe a certain way?
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Join us on Jan. 28 as we demonstrate how you can use The Learning Network to bring the world to your students, for free.
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In this webinar, we walk through our STEM Writing Contest and discuss ways to engage students in informational writing.
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In this webinar, NYT critics and Learning Network editors share and discuss mentor texts and strategies for teaching review writing.
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Apply now to join our second cohort of distinguished educators who teach with The Times. The deadline is Feb. 2, 2021.
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Twenty-eight middle and high school teachers from The New York Times Teaching Project tell us how they’re navigating remote instruction this fall.
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In this lesson, students will explore vaccination campaigns of the past two centuries. Then, based on their findings, they will make recommendations to President Biden on how to improve the current vaccine rollout.
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How should we honor and remember those we have lost to Covid?
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In this lesson, students will learn about how countries around the world are viewing, and dealing with, the coronavirus pandemic in the first days of 2021.
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How many workers are there in frontline and essential occupations? Who should get vaccinated first?
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