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Writing about Current Events

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  1. Welcome!

    My Learning Spaces (free sample lesson)
  2. Course Introduction (free sample lesson)
    1 Quiz
  3. Module 1: Media Literacy
    Mediums and Contexts (free sample lesson)
    1 Quiz
  4. Your Media of Choice (free sample lesson)
    1 Quiz
  5. Managing Media
    1 Quiz
  6. Top Stories
    1 Quiz
  7. Module 2: Professional Opinions
    Interview with Lieutenant General John Pickler
    5 Quizzes
  8. Interview with American Politician Clark Boyd
    5 Quizzes
  9. Interview with Career Journalist Amelia Hipps
    6 Quizzes
  10. Module 3: Current Events
    Background Knowledge
  11. Social Media
  12. Productive Note-Taking
    2 Topics
  13. Analyzing a News Story
    1 Quiz
  14. Module 4: Editorials
    The Ant and the Grasshopper
    1 Quiz
  15. A Retelling of the Ant and the Grasshopper
    1 Quiz
  16. Grasshopper and Ant
    1 Quiz
  17. Final Essay
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Course Introduction (free sample lesson)

Click the Idea Exchange button to engage with your classmates about your personal habits and experiences with the news.

The Idea Exchange is a private social group and discussion forum available only to enrollees of this course. The group opens in a new tab, so you can toggle back and forth between this page and the group if you wish.

After posting your message there, return to this page to take the Introductory Lesson Quiz. Then mark this lesson complete and move on to the next one.