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Going FurtherOption 1: Learn more.After reading the featured article, reflect in your journal:What is your reaction to the protests happening in Poland? Do you feel surprised? Encouraged? Upset?Do you support the protesters? Why?Do the events in Poland remind you of anything else happening in the world today or in the past?On Wednesday, Poland’s government delayed…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Articles: The “Family, Interrupted" seriesThe coronavirus pandemic has upended the lives of many American families. “Family, Interrupted,” a new weekly series from The Times’s National desk, takes readers inside the upside-down worlds of pandemic-weary Americans…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again,” by Gia KourlasIn this lesson, you will first watch “Nobody Knows,” a short film in which Lil Buck, the “willowy dancer who spins on the…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Why Nigeria Is Now Erupting” by Rick Gladstone and Megan Specia“Tens of thousands of Nigerians have been demonstrating for weeks against a notoriously brutal and corrupt police agency, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad,” Rick Gladstone…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found” by Caitlin DickersonIn 2017, before the Trump administration’s widely publicized “zero tolerance” immigration policy went into effect, children were separated from their parents…

7. After seeing these images and reading the article, would you want to visit Blood Manor or another haunted house this fall? Why or why not? Would you enjoy being a “scare actor”?Bonus Scary Treat: If you were asked to consult on the design of a haunted house just for you, what elements, scenes, effects…

2. After you have chosen your artwork, use the same questions from the warm-up to formulate your analysis:Then dig a little deeper:What do you notice about the composition, colors, objects and people in the artwork?Why did this artwork stand out to you? What do you find interesting or moving about it?What do you think is…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until September 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Armenia and Azerbaijan: The Conflict Explained” by Andrew E. Kramer“A simmering, decades-long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh erupted in late September into the worst fighting the area had seen since…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us” by Taylor LorenzAmong Us is a multiplayer game where four to 10 players are dropped onto an alien spaceship. Each player is designated a private role…

4. How did Ms. Samudio’s class eventually test its question about fireflies aboard the rocket? What did the results show?5. How did the project undertaken by Ms. Samudio’s classes lead to Indiana getting a state insect?6. The article concludes:“Several parents told me that the simple question of asking their child what they had done in…