sst7-CurrentEvents

Current Events

 * Current Issues**
 * U.S. Edition: [|CNN] | [|Fox News] | [|NY Times] | [|USA Today] | [|Yahoo! News]
 * World Edition: [|CNN] | [|Fox News] | [|NY Times] | [|USA Today] | [|Yahoo! News]
 * Personalized news: [|Google News] | [|msnbc.com] | [|My Yahoo]
 * [|CNN Student News] | [|StudentNewsDaily] | [|Voice of America] | [|Good News Gazette]
 * [|Stossel in the Classroom] - discussion starters, video clips, etc.


 * MLK Day** (January) - We, the people of the United States of America set aside the third Monday of January to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The holiday was first observed in 1986. In 1994, Congress designated this Federal Holiday as a Day of Service. This holiday (now called the [|Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service]) is celebrated as a "day on, not a day off." It is a day of action with an emphasis on working together to provide solution to the most pressing problems facing our nation.


 * A Poetry Perspective
 * Poetry intro from textbook: pages 616-619, 622.
 * [|I Hear America Singing] by Walt Whitman from the mid-1800s (text p. 671) | [|Click for Poemflow] | [|Click for Wordle]
 * [|I, Too, Sing America] (1925) by Langston Hughes (text p. 672) | [|Click for Wordle]
 * [|Mother to Son] by Langston Hughes | [|Click for Wordle]
 * Dr. King's //I Have a Dream//Speech (August 28, 1963) delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
 * Text: [|I Have a Dream] by Martin Luther King (text p. 483) | [|Click for Wordle]
 * Video: [|I Have a Dream] (17 minutes) | Newsreel about [|The 1963 March on Washington] (6 minutes)
 * An excerpt of the "I Have a Dream" speech appears on pages **482-486**. Dr. King's speech is compared with Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
 * Timelines
 * [|Black History Milestones] from History.com
 * MLK Memorial - [|Life and Legacy Timeline] from AP.com
 * Videos
 * YouTube: [|Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. playlist] of news, speeches and music videos
 * Other sites and tools
 * Mrs. Kemp's [|People Must Work Together] resources - helpful for developing and writing the essay
 * [|Quotes by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] from BrainyQuote
 * [|Dr. Martin Luther King Resources] from Thinkfinity
 * [|A comprehensive website about Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement] at the Seattle Times
 * [|The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial] in Washington DC
 * [|Poemflow]
 * [|Wordle]


 * Patriot Day** (September 11) is designated in memory of those who perished in the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC, and Flight 93 near Shanksville PA.


 * YouTube: [|911 Anniversary-Peace on Earth] (September 11, 2011)
 * [|CNN's homepage on September 11, 2001]
 * The Library of Congress: [|September 11, 2001 Documentary Project]
 * [|911day.org]
 * JSOnline: [|Remembering 911]
 * 9-11 | **A Wisconsin Family's Story**...
 * [|Andrea Haberman had a fiancé, a job, and a business trip on September 11]
 * [|A normal phone conversation, then suddenly silence]
 * [|Family watches disaster unfold]
 * [|A stranger reaches out to Andrea's family]
 * [|A healing memorial service helps the wait]
 * [|Rusty steel, strangers' gestures soften Haberman's grief]
 * [|Grieving parents' restaurant becomes another casualty of September 11]
 * [|Life goes on, but forever changed]
 * Mike Nichols at the 2011 Anniversary Ceremonies in New York
 * NBC New York: [|9/11 Anniversary]
 * [|National September 11 Memorial & Museum]
 * [|The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial]
 * [|Flight 93 National Memorial]
 * [|The 9/11 Interactive Timeline]
 * [|The 9/11 rescue dogs: Portraits of the last surviving animals who scoured Ground Zero]
 * [|WTC Tribute Songs]: This site contains songs that are mixed with audio from 911.