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L.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: Video of a current news event is presented for discussion to encourage student participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the video. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support.
04/12/2010
Scrabble purists a-n-g-r-y over new version of the classic board game
Mattel recently announced the planned release of Scrabble Trickster, a version of the classic board game with relaxed rules, much to the ire of Scrabble purists.
■Class discussion: The board game version of Scrabble may not be selling well according to this report, but young users seem to still love the game. A knock-off online version called Scrabulous quickly becoming the most popular game on Facebook when it was introduced as an application in 2007, until it was removed in 2008 for copyright infringement. Its reincarnation as Lexulous currently has 400,795 monthly active users.
Do you play Scrabble? Do any board games still interest you in an increasingly digital world? What advantages (or disadvantages) are there in playing Scrabble, chess or other traditional board games on the computer rather than on the board?
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