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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, 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. FOR THE WEEK OF AUG. 31, 2005 Coping in the aftermath of Katrina![]() ![]() News stories report how families were forced to flee their homes with few belongings. Ask students to think about how they would help their families prepare for such an emergency. Ask them to make a list of steps they would take and list what decisions might be mistakes.
![]() After going over the newspaper coverage of the catastrophe ask students to write an essay about the one incident that most deeply affected them.
![]() Watching news reports about the catastrophe and reading news reports in the newspaper are vastly different experiences. Why? Television provides immediacy. Newspapers provide depth. Is that true? What do students remember from what they've seen in the TV coverage? What do students remember from the newspaper accounts?
As Hurricane Katrina's death toll rises, as looting runs rampant across the Gulf Coast, as flooding swallows New Orleans and gasoline prices across the nation soar, Americans once again are confronted with the overwhelming power of nature. For a nation long proud of being "can do" people, the aftermath of Katrina is indeed a humbling moment. One report suggests that the flooding and resulting sanitation catastrophe could make New Orleans a ghost town for three to six months. That means a half million to a million metro New Orleans residents are facing a life as long-term refugees. And those are the lucky ones.
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