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6. What is your reaction to the article? Are you surprised that one ship (albeit, a very large one) could disrupt the flow of international trade? What do the events of the past week say about the interconnectedness and precariousness of our global trade system? What questions do you still have about the grounded ship…

6. What are some solutions discussed in the article to make paleontology more widely accessible? Do you have other ideas?7. What are some of the difficulties that more inclusive paleontological networks are facing in establishing and advancing their work?Going FurtherOption 1: React to the Article.Where do you stand in the debate on decolonizing paleontology? What…

Warm UpIn our “What’s Going On in This Graph?” feature, we recently asked students to make observations about “Diversity in Professional Sports.” Spend a few minutes looking closely at this graph, reproduced below — or found here in a larger size.Then ask yourself the questions we pose in this feature every week:You can share your…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How Two Lonely Generations Are Helping Each Other Heal” by Richard Schiffman“The pandemic is not just making many of us sick, it is making virtually all of us lonelier, according to a Harvard report…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Your Loved Ones, and Eerie Tom Cruise Videos, Reanimate Unease With Deepfakes” by Daniel VictorDeepfakes, videos created with the help of machine-learning techniques to look as if they were real, have been developing for…

For each of the following statements, write whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree:I feel very comfortable talking about gender identity.I can talk about gender identity using language that I know won’t offend anyone.I feel like conversations about gender often become too political.I wish I knew more about the different ways that people…

Going FurtherOption 1: Share your experiences.Choose one or more of the following writing prompts:When have you faced a difficult journey or challenge, physical or mental? Write about the experience: What made it challenging? What obstacles did you need to overcome? Did you ever feel like giving up? How did you feel afterward? Would you say…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Tasmanian Tigers Are Extinct. Why Do People Keep Seeing Them?”The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is an extinct marsupial predator that was last seen in 1923. However, in February, Neil Waters, president of the Thylacine…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him.” by John LelandAs a middle school student, Dennis Richmond Jr. was inspired by Alex Haley’s book “Roots” to learn about his own family history. In the…

6. What is your reaction to the article? How does it affect your views on Dr. Seuss and his books? Does reading the article change any of your views from the warm-up activity? How do you think we — the public, book publishers, libraries, educators — should respond to classics that are “out of step…