1. Current Events Nancy Benfer and Abby Hecht

2. Warm Up Warm Up What news papers do you read ? What News programs do you watch? What events do you follow? What memories do you have from your school years when you discussed current events? Today, we will have a Current events Hunt! Are you ready?

3. Activity Directions Here are the steps to your current event hunt Step 1: Look for your newspaper section and page number, using the Table of Contents Step 2: Record your designated quote Step 3: Find the article in your section that includes your quote, record it on your worksheet Step 4: Complete the worksheet on the 5 W’s of the quote and how it is related to the article

4. Section Quotes The New York Times “A Charge to Delay payments is redirected to chip off some student debt.” Business Day “ A team that fights past adversity, as it did four years ago.” Weekend Arts (Movies and Performances) “Celebrating the life of a real character, onstage and off.” Weekend Arts (Fine Arts and Leisure) “An artist reflects the rough world of his own experience.” You Will Have 5 minutes to complete this task

5. Tell Us What You Found! New York Times Group Business Day Group Movies and Performances Group Arts and Leisure Group Who What When Where Why

6. What did We learn? Tell us what you learned about your current Events articles.