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Weekly Reading in Google Classroom

Weekly Reading

Please spend one hour per week minimum following the news.  Turn in one paragraph indicating the three most important events in the news these weeks and why you chose them as most important.

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Weekly Reading in Google Classroom

Weekly Reading

Please spend one hour per week minimum following the news.  Turn in one paragraph indicating the three most important events in the news these weeks and why you chose them as most important.

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Weekly Reading in Google Classroom

Weekly Reading

Please spend one hour per week minimum following the news.  Turn in one paragraph indicating the three most important events in the news these weeks and why you chose them as most important.

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Interesting Subjects in Google Classroom

Interesting Subjects

Please spend an hour this week surfing the news. Come to class with two additional topics each (in addition to the topics you found during class today) that you have an interest in studying this spring. That will give me some room to find interesting stuff to follow up on as we finish your SENIOR YEAR!!!!!!!!

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Devastation in Central America in Google Classroom

Devastation in Central America

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Battle at Boot Camp in Google Classroom

Battle at Boot Camp

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Limits of Student Speech in Google Classroom

Limits of Student Speech

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Fact Check Internet in Google Classroom

Fact Check Internet

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The Truth About Recycling and Digging Up a Painful Past in Google Classroom

The Truth About Recycling and Digging Up a Painful Past

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I Felt Like I was Suffocating and Should Covid Vaccines Be Mandatory? in Google Classroom

I Felt Like I was Suffocating and Should Covid Vaccines Be Mandatory?

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Is Big Tech Too Powerful? in Google Classroom

Is Big Tech Too Powerful?

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The Remarkable Journey of an Ironman in Google Classroom

The Remarkable Journey of an Ironman

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A Deadly Journey in Google Classroom

A Deadly Journey

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Supreme Court Term Limits in Google Classroom

Supreme Court Term Limits

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Old Enough to Vote in Google Classroom

Old Enough to Vote

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Junk Food Ads in Google Classroom

Junk Food Ads

Please complete this assignment on quotes and paraphrases on Do Junk Food Ads Make You Hungry?

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Biden's Choice and Pandemic Heroes in Google Classroom

Biden's Choice and Pandemic Heroes

Please complete "Digging into Data" on Pandemic Heroes and "Between the Lines" on Biden's Challenge.

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What's Our Quality of Life?/ Off to Work, Not to School in Google Classroom

What's Our Quality of Life?/ Off to Work, Not to School

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What's Our Quality of Life?/ Off to Work, Not to School in Google Classroom

What's Our Quality of Life?/ Off to Work, Not to School

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A Life Among Garbage and Cashless Businesses in Google Classroom

A Life Among Garbage and Cashless Businesses

Hey Everyone. I apologize for posting this late. I have continued to try to figure out how to manage the apparent incompatibility of the Scholastic system with Google Classroom by posting things in different formats that I thought would make it easier for you all. But, each change just seems to create new problems. I'll spend some time over break problem solving. But, for now, I'll paste a screen shot of a worksheet into a Google Doc and you can write your answers below.

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Striding Toward Freedom and Crimes Against Humanity in Google Classroom

Striding Toward Freedom and Crimes Against Humanity

Please complete the Summarizing 101 assignment on the Striding Toward Freedom article.

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Up in Flames and Should Sick Days be Required? in Google Classroom

Up in Flames and Should Sick Days be Required?

Please read the articles and complete the worksheets.

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Election in Google Classroom

Election

Please read An Election Like No Other and Could Young Voters Decide the Presidency. Then complete the following assignments.

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Immigration to the U.S. in Google Classroom

Immigration to the U.S.

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Americans with Disabilities Act in Google Classroom

Americans with Disabilities Act

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When are you Really an Adult? in Google Classroom

When are you Really an Adult?

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The Not So United Kingdom in Google Classroom

The Not So United Kingdom

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Post Office Panic and Two Americas in Google Classroom

Post Office Panic and Two Americas

Please read these two articles and complete the following work.

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6 Things to Know about the Atomic Bomb in Google Classroom

6 Things to Know about the Atomic Bomb

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The Children Left Behind in Google Classroom

The Children Left Behind

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Race for a Vaccine and Housework in Google Classroom

Race for a Vaccine and Housework

Please read The Race for a Vaccine (including the section on vaccine skeptics) starting on Page 6 and Who's Still Doing the Housework starting on Page 10 and answer the following questions in the Google Doc provided.

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Electoral College Articles in Google Classroom

Electoral College Articles

Please read A Guide to the Electoral College beginning on Page 16 and Should we replace the Electoral College starting on Page 22. Vote on whether you think it should be replaced for Upfront. Then share your thoughts about the articles with me in the attached document.

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Racism in America and Freedom in Hong Kong in Google Classroom

Racism in America and Freedom in Hong Kong

Please read the first half of the August 31st edition and reflect on your opinion of the content in the attached Google Doc.

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Election, Pandemic, Smart Phones in Google Classroom

Election, Pandemic, Smart Phones

Please write a short reflection of your thoughts after reading each article.

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Election, Pandemic, Smart Phones in Google Classroom

Election, Pandemic, Smart Phones

Please write a short reflection of your thoughts after reading each article.