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Writing about Current Events

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  1. Welcome!

    Course Description
  2. Course Introduction (free)
    1 Quiz
  3. Module 1: Media Literacy
    Mediums and Contexts (free)
    1 Quiz
  4. Your Media of Choice (free)
    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
Quiz 23 of 25

Take a Quiz: The Ant and Grasshopper Original Version

This brief story teaches a general life lesson, which is written at the end of the narrative: “There’s a time for work and a time for play.” Rather than pronounce this truism in a dogmatic way, parents may choose to introduce their children to these two interesting personalities, the ant and the grasshopper, to teach the lesson in a more entertaining way. The story is not complicated and neither is the moral. The story is to be taken at face value. Spending too much time analyzing the story would weaken its impact. The point is to teach a simple, straightforward lesson that most people would agree is a good rule to live by. 

Click below to start the quiz. Write several sentences for each answer.