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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
This week's word in the news: BARRICADE
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Demonstrators supporting and opposing Israel over the war in Gaza clashed in a large and noisy but mostly peaceful assembly at UCLA on Sunday, shouting slogans and pulling at police barricades not far from where pro-Palestinian students have maintained a tent encampment for days.
The Los Angeles Times -- 04/29/2024
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Download a lesson based on political cartoons and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)
This week's lesson: Is our political divide really that bad?
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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
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