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Lesson Plan April 19 2013

How do we define terrorism? - Lesson Plan
This lesson is adapted from Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy used with …
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Post April 15 2013

Gun Buyers Face Greater Scrutiny in Senate Bill
Families of the first graders killed in the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Co…
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Lesson Plan April 11 2013

Lesson plan: the Iraq War, 10 years later
OverviewMarch 20, 2013, marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, but was also the …
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Post March 21 2013

Obama Visits Israel and West Bank
Published March 21, 2013 President Barack Obama is in Israel this week, marking his first pr…
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Daily Video March 19 2013

Republican Party Rethinks GOP Brand
Teachers: this video includes a 3-minute story followed by a discussion. Four months after the …
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Post February 28 2013

Sequestration Is Happening, But Effects Are Unclear
Related Lesson Plan: What is Sequestration? The government in Washington is about to g…
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Daily Video February 19 2013

Debate Over Gun Control Continues After Newtown
After the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., Virginia Tech and Columbine, Colo., the nation questione…
Guatemalan migrant Corio, who is waiting for her court hearing for asylum seekers that returned to Mexico to await their legal proceedings under a new policy established by the U.S. government, baths her daughter at migrant shelter in Ciudad Juarez
Lesson Plan February 15 2013

A picture is worth a thousand words
Subject(s) Art/Media, Social Studies, ELA, English, Civics Estimated Time Two class …
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Post January 22 2013

Obama Sets Progressive Tone in Inaugural Speech
In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama outlined the issues he intends to tackle in…
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Post December 17 2012

President Obama Vows Action after Elementary School Shooting
President Obama addressed a congregation of citizens from Newtown, Conn. on Sunday after the shooti…
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