Current Events 2

Modern World History - Fall 2008

Mr. Ames

As we embark on our last round of current events, the format will be changing slightly. You will still present a summary of the article as you’ve been doing, and you will still need to look in the foreign press. For more, read the directions below.

Directions: In the days prior to your assigned “current event” presentation, you will need to find an article in a current (no older than five days) newspaper, news-magazine, or Internet news source that interests you and you feel is important. The article must be from a foreign paper – the list is reproduced below – and must take place in a foreign country. You will need to prepare your presentation in the proper format prior to the beginning of class. Presentations will be made at the beginning of each class.

Your presentation will include the following: 1) What the article is about - a brief summary - and why it is important to the country in question; 2) A list of three things that you learned about the country where the event took place; 3) Two specific facts that you learned; and 4) one question that the article raised for you.

Order of presentations: The presentation order will follow the class list, beginning with ????.