Current events give students the opportunity to think and talk about important issues that impact us all. Students can analyze news articles to understand what’s happening in the world around them. Then, using this scaffold, they can create an annotated version of the article for their own classrooms. This year’s major issues include the escalation of the US x Venezuela military engagement, the ramifications of Jerome Powell’s pending departure as Fed chairman, and the question of whether Trump can overcome “his own repeated failures and the sclerosis of Washington elites”. And in Germany, voters will decide whether to embrace far right populism and ethnic nationalism or call for a rethink of refugee policy.
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