Want Current Events in Your Classroom? Check this out.

My sponsor teacher uses this for his Grade 10's for every month.

What in the World? / Le Monde en Marche (Level 2) is a photocopiable current events resource, published in English and French, for Canadian students in grades 8 through 10. Designed to enhance students' understanding of and interest in current Canadian and international events and issues, this publication addresses numerous curriculum outcomes while saving teachers time.

Published nine times a year from September to June (except January), each issue focuses on the previous month's top news stories and includes:

• Four news articles, written at a level students can understand;
• Relevant background information to enhance understanding of each event or issue;
• A content-area vocabulary assignment;
• On-the-line, between-the-line, and beyond-the-line questions;
• Analyzing a political cartoon assignment;
• Examining a news photo assignment;
• Crossword and wordsearch;
• Community Connections article and assignment;
• Quizzes;
• Map assignment;
• Answer key.

Subscribers receive one copy of each issue which they may photocopy for use by all teachers and students within one school. Subscriptions are delivered by first class mail, or via Internet download. Electronic subscribers receive a password each month enabling them to access the publication on our website as soon as it has been posted.

Cost - $126 for the year.