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Common Core State Standard
RH.CCS.7 Grades 6-12: Students are asked to locate a country or geographical area on a map, connecting information with a specific location. Then, students answer a series of quiz questions based on a current news event happening in that location. Students must combine their prior knowledge with information presented in the question to determine the correct answers.

Mass shootings kill at least 29 in Texas and Ohio -- 08/05/2019

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Q: Twenty people were killed and another 26 were wounded Saturday during a mass shooting at a Walmart in the far west Texas city of El Paso. Early Sunday morning, another nine people were killed and 27 wounded wounded by a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio. Where is Texas or Ohio?

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