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Feb. 8, 2022, 7:37 a.m.

Feb. 8, 2022: Have your students choose from 9 stories covering different subjects

FILE PHOTO: Biden visits a class at East End Elementary School in North Plainfield, New Jersey
FILE PHOTO: A child wears a mask and waits for U.S. President Joe Biden to visit her pre-Kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
A child wears a mask and waits for U.S. President Joe Biden to visit her pre-Kindergarten class at East End Elementary School to highlight the early childhood education proposal in his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda in North Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S. October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo
Skim the segments from the previous night's show, and choose the story that works best for your class, or have you students decide! Click on the following image which will take you to the NewsHour to view the video. Then answer the questions below.

Summary

Five Facts

Discussion questions using the Journalist’s Five Ws plus an H:

  • Who are some of the individuals or groups of people mentioned in the news summary?
  • What stories are covered?
  • Where do some of the stories take place?
  • When did those stories occur?
  • Why did the event(s) take place?
  • How do you think the NewsHour’s producers decided which stories made it into the news summary?

Media literacy : Who else do you think should have been interviewed in the story you watched?

Focus Questions

See, Think, Wonder : What did you notice? What did the story make you think? What story would you want to find out more about? Where would you go to learn more?

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