Summer

Welcome to Week Three of our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest.This contest is open to students 11-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit a response by 9 a.m. Eastern on July 1 that answers the questions “What got your attention in The New York Times this week? Why?”If you are 13 or older…

Welcome to Week Two of our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest.This contest is open to students 11-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit a response by 9 a.m. Eastern on June 24 that answers the questions “What got your attention in The New York Times this week? Why?”If you are 13 or older…

Update, June 17: Week 2 has now started.Our 13th Annual Summer Reading Contest begins!This contest is open to students 11-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit a response by 9 a.m. Eastern on June 17 that answers the questions “What got your attention in The New York Times this week? Why?”If you are…

June 13, 2022 It is time to get the Summer bucket list ready so you can make the most of Summertime! You can still use our green version from last year (Perfect Free Summer Bucket List Printable), but I thought I’d put together one more color version for you. With this brightly colored, rainbow summer…

Note: This is our last Student Opinion question for the 2021-22 school year.Do you have plans for this summer? Vacations? Summer camps? Hanging out with friends? Starting new projects? Does this summer mark any big transitions for you, such as moving up to high school or college or starting a summer job?In “Summer in the…

This announcement is available as a one-page PDF to hang on your class bulletin board.Every year since 2010, The Learning Network has invited teenagers around the world to add The New York Times to their summer reading lists. So far, more than 80,000 have done so.If you are looking for ways to offer students more…

Welcome to our first edition of Accessible Activities, a new feature to support teachers for the 2021-22 school year.Each Wednesday we’ll round up five student activities that draw on highly visual and more accessible reporting across Times sections and that offer additional scaffolding that invites learners of all kinds to grapple with what might be…

We received 1,074 entries from students from around the world for the ninth week of our 10-week Summer Reading Contest. Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our winner, Bloomy, as well as the runners-up and honorable mentions we recognize below.Scroll down to take a look at the variety of topics — from…

WinnerFrancisco Kim Choi, 17, chose a guest essay from the Opinion section headlined “If You Paid Your Debt to Society, You Should Be Allowed to Work” and wrote:Every extended family has a black sheep and mine is no different. In my case, that would be my favorite aunt. Maybe my partiality is materialistic, but she…

WinnerPeri Ferguson, 16, from King School in Stamford, Conn., chose a guest essay from the Opinion section headlined “Black Valedictorians and the Toxic Trope of Black Exceptionalism” and wrote:My grandmother was a Black valedictorian. She couldn’t afford to go to college. Her family members were poor farmers, descendants of poor sharecroppers, descendants of slaves.My father…