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New programs exclusively for e-Appeal subscribers

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Help Students Learn "All About Elections"

"All About Elections" focuses on voting, election vocabulary, political parties, the presidential candidates, campaigning, campaign issues, and leadership qualities.

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Serial story: "Ghost from the Past: The Mystery of Latham House," Tuesdays and Thursdays, Sept. 30 - Nov. 6.
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The Stock Market Game contest this year is Sept. 29 through Dec. 5. The first 425 teams get free access.
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Order ELECTRONIC EDITIONS of The Commercial Appeal for the 2008-2009 school year

What's an e-Appeal?

The Commercial Appeal has gone 100% digital edition, which we're calling e-Appeal in Education. No more papers delivered to the schools. Instead, the e-Appeal reaches students where they live - in an increasingly digital world. And best of all, thanks to the support of business sponsors and key school systems, the e-Appeal digital edition is COMPLIMENTARY to you as long as school support and sponsorship funds are available.

The e-Appeal is an EXACT REPLICA of The Commercial Appeal. Students can log onto any computer with Internet access and flip through pages and skim headlines, just as they would with the traditional newspaper.

The e-Appeal is now available in 12 languages! Just click on a story. Then go to the "translate to..." pull-down button in the upper center of the page and select a language.
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Download the Teen Appeal

Teen Appeal is a citywide high school newspaper program that introduces journalism to Memphis teens. Memphis City Schools students reporter, photograph and cartoon for the publication which has a distribution of 19,000. The program is a partnership among The Commerical Appeal, the University of Memphis, Scripps Howard Foundation and Memphis City Schools.


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"Sunday SkillPower"

"Sunday SkillPower" enhances basic reading, math and other life skills with the Sunday news. This interactive guide packs an educational punch with lots of NIE activities and national learning standards.

It features activities such as a sports page scavenger hunt, "cracking the code" of abbreviations in the classified ads, the cost of apartment renting, geography with the weather map, math with ads, reading the TV schedule for information, building skills with current events and counting coupons.

AVAILABLE ONLY WITH E-APPEAL

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Workshop NIE Style Teacher's Guide

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"Workshop NIE Style" Teacher's Guide itemizes the Tennessee state standards that correlate with the activities. Some of these standards have changed since the Tennessee Press Association created this comprehensive, 72-page guide in 2006. It contains language arts, social studies, mathematics and social studies activities at elementary, middle and secondary levels.

AVAILABLE ONLY WITH E-APPEAL

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"Civil Rights: The Dream Lives On"

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a world where all people had equal rights. Have we achieved that goal? Students are challenged to learn the history of the Civil Rights movement and to think about the future of equal rights for all.

AVAILABLE ONLY WITH E-APPEAL

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 Weekly E-Appeal features

THIS WEEK'S WORD IN THE NEWS 

METASTASIZED

RECENTLY ADDED WORDS IN THE NEWS:
Egalitarian
Volatile
Bankruptcy
Monotheistic

DEFINITION:
To be changed or transformed, especially dangerously.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
"Some experts also contend that Treasury's decision last month to not use taxpayer money to save Lehman Brothers worsened the panic that quickly metastasized into an international crisis."
New York Times, Oct. 11, 2008

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Geography
in the News

North Korea taken off U.S. terror list

Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

Archive of Geography quizzes

Lesson Plans

Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:


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This Week in History

Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events. Just click on today's date in the calendar



Wall Street roller coaster keeps U.S. on scary ride

-- Front Page Talking Points Archive

Oct. 12 - Oct. 18, 2008

Lesson Plans:

Skills Sheet:

Writing Prompt:

Ask Marilyn:

Current Events Quiz:

 


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