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Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Learn to Argue Productively” by Harry Guinness“Like most things, there’s a skill to having good arguments,” Mr. Guinness writes. “Productive disagreements aren’t all-out shouting matches with a victor and a loser; they’re deliberate attempts to…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Life on Venus? Astronomers See a Signal in Its Clouds” by Shannon Stirone, Kenneth Chang and Dennis OverbyeAstronomers on Monday reported the detection of a chemical in the acidic Venusian clouds — phosphine — which…

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until September 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “When You Love, and Loathe, Watching the N.F.L.” by Kurt StreeterThe N.F.L.’s new season began on Sept. 10. But this sports year is unlike any other. Kurt Streeter, a Sports of the Times columnist, contemplates…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement” by Jennifer SchuesslerThis past August, the United States celebrated 100 years of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which established American women’s right to vote. But we’re discovering that the traditional telling of the women’s suffrage movement…

Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Building Public Places for a Covid World” by James S. RussellHow can we reinvent the spaces in our communities to both advance wellness and knit communities together during the coronavirus pandemic? That is the question The New York Times asked several architects and other designers, inviting them to dream “outside the six-foot…

Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “High Schoolers Across the Country Are Seeking ‘Teenager Therapy’” by Taylor LorenzAs the coronavirus pandemic has upended school, summer plans and daily life for millions of teenagers, many are turning to a podcast to cope. “Teenager Therapy,” hosted by five rising seniors at Loara High School in Anaheim, Calif., has become a…

6. The article concludes:Hokusai already knew, in 1830, how quickly and thoroughly an image’s meaning can change. It’s already there in the picture of Ejiri. …Here, in a crummy little marsh under Fuji, Hokusai gave us a vision of culture in constant motion.Because art’s meaning lies not only in what it looks like, but in…

Every school day we choose an important or interesting Times article to feature in our Lesson of the Day and pair it with a warm-up, critical-thinking questions and a going-further activity. The activities and questions are intended to help students understand the article, contextualize it within current and historical world events, and connect the content…

CNVS 02_NYT Final Script_150429 Transcript Start time: 00:00:00 Rakesh: Racism means basically like... Miles: A large, a large part of uh...a race feels that they’re superior to another race and so and so not only do they believe that but they act on it. Malik: Examples would be in class sometimes I’d be the only…

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