News+Unit

//Post materials for use in a unit on current events, media, and news here.//

- Students watch a news broadcast in Spanish, note the topic of each segment, then capture (with simple words and phrases) key ideas about each story. They made need to watch clips several times--especially in lower levels user:chericem1

- A homework assignment designed to get students thinking about the cultural assumptions, beliefs, and values that the media they consume communicates user:chericem1

- Vocabulary quiz for vocabulary needed for reading selected portions of a newspaper user:chericem1

Newspaper of the Future Unit
[|A Blurb on Surge Protectors and An Idea for a Millenium News Activity] (Skip past the blurb on surge protectors for the lesson plan that explains the materials below) user:chericem1

- Use photos from //Time// magazine that depict events from the last 50 years as a springboard for a journal entry or discussion of the historical past and the patterns and trends that are visible in retrospect user:chericem1

- Students predict what will happen during the next decade or two based on the historical review they just completed user:chericem1

- Students form groups and based on the predictions they made in the above activity, they create a newspaper (written in the past tense) about the events they expect they might be reading about in the future user:chericem1

- A worksheet designed to help students divide up responsibilities for the above newspaper project user:chericem1

- A prompt for a journal entry based on the book //Planeta Mary// from Spain user:chericem1

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[|Some Ideas for Working with Current Events]

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