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Daily News Lesson June 08 2021

One elder's survival story at Indigenous residential boarding school
Learn about the painful legacy of residential schools
FILE PHOTO: A family's stimulus check from the U.S. Treasury for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) aid arrived in the mail in Milton
Daily News Lesson June 08 2021

How stimulus checks have impacted everyday Americans
Learn how Americans are spending their stimulus checks
One year anniversary of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
Daily News Lesson May 26 2021

What's changed since George Floyd's death one year ago
Discuss what has changed — and what hasn't — since George Floyd was killed one year ago
A job seeker holds a "We're Hiring" card while talking to a representative from Target at a City of Boston Neighborhood Career Fair on May Day in Boston
Daily News Lesson May 10 2021

What latest jobs report means for the economy
Understand what the latest jobs report says about recovery from the COVID pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Morning rises over the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington
Daily News Lesson May 03 2021

Student free speech makes it to the Supreme Court
Discuss whether public schools should be able to punish students for speech outside of the school
Protesters rally outside the Turkish Consulate in commemoration of the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Los Angeles
Daily News Lesson April 29 2021

Significance of Biden's recognition of the Armenian genocide
Learn about the Armenian genocide and how it affects international relationships today
FILE PHOTO: A person holds census information at an event where U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke at a Census Town Hall at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York City
Daily News Lesson April 27 2021

How the 2020 census affects balance of power in Congress
Discuss the ways the census affects political outcomes, and look into the results of the census on the official site
News conference after the verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis Minnesota
Daily News Lesson April 20 2021

George Floyd’s family vows to ‘keep fighting’ for just policing after Chauvin verdict
Watch George Floyd's family react to Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict and discuss what the verdict means for policing going forward
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Daily News Lesson April 19 2021

Brooks & Capehart on police shootings and Afghanistan
Discuss the roles of US police and the military at home and abroad.
FILE PHOTO: A police officer is seen in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington
Lesson Plan April 15 2021

Were COVID restrictions constitutional?

Research Constitutional considerations surrounding COVID and discuss the balance of private rights and public good
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