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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 NOV. 14, 2005 President heads for China![]() ![]() Ask your students to check out clothing and electronics ads in their newspapers, then go out to the stores and make a list of all the goods they find that are marked "Made in China." What do they think about that? Goods manufactured in China keep millions of Chinese employed and benefit American shoppers because they are relatively inexpensive. Is that good for American workers? What can American do to compete?
![]() Assign them to follow news reports of the President's trip. How was he received in the various countries? What did the news stories teach them about the countries he is visiting?
![]() Ask them to write a report about what they think are the three most important achievements of the trip, and what they think are the three most interesting moments.
Thirty years ago, a young man who would become the 43rd President of the United States celebrated his 29th birthday bicycling around Beijing. It was a hoot for him. "I rode all over the place," George W. Bush told Phoenix Television of Beijing last week during an interview leading up to his visit there this week. "I can remember how odd people thought I looked," according to a White House transcript of the interview. "There wasn't much exposure to the West, and all of a sudden, an American starts riding a bike amongst them and it, frankly, surprised some people." Bush was responding to a question seeking his "deepest impressions" of China from his early visit while his father was the first chief of the U.S. Liaison Office there. Aside from the number of bicycles in Beijing, Bush also remembered "the uniformity of dress." Now Beijing is full of cars, clothing has taken on individual style. And, Bush said, "There's high-rise buildings that are magnificent." Returning to China Saturday in his third official visit, the President has many more spectacular changes to contemplate. China is turning itself into a global colossus and generally is viewed as the next country likely to achieve superpower status. How the two nations adjust to that future is critical to world peace and prosperity. "The history of the twenty-first century will largely be determined by the relationship that emerges between the world's greatest power and the world's greatest emerging power," according to Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.
The Asian journey: China is not the only country Bush will visit this week. His journey will include a Wednesday stop in Japan where he will discuss a realignment of U.S. troops on Okinawa and urge the Japanese to resume importing American beef. On Thursday he will arrive in South Korea and discuss trade and the North Korean nuclear issue. On Friday and Saturday, he will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Busan, South Korea, and discuss measures to deal with bird flu and the North Korean issue. His three-day China visit begins on Saturday. He also will find time to visit Mongolia. Front Page Talking Points is written by
Alan Stamm for NIEonline.com, Copyright 2024
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