Remnants

To my great pleasure I am teaching an elective class at the middle school level this fall. The class is called “Current Events and the Media” and is a new elective. Though it is very fun to create a new class, it is also very challenging since no resources exist at the school for building the curriculum specific to this class. Several of the teachers and staff members have been very helpful with suggestions and advise since current event topics are included at each grade level within the middle school. My goal is to create a consistent AND flexible guide for teaching about current events. As the teacher I will provide the structure for learning as my students and the world provide the content. 

To begin the class I have asked these questions: what is a current event; what makes any current event news worthy; where do we get our news about current events; and will any of the current events of today make it into the history’s of tomorrow? We shall see where they led us this semester.