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New York Times: The Americas

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times covers the top stories emerging out of South and Central America.
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New York Times: Asia Pacific

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times provides extensive news coverage of Asia and the Pacific Islands.
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New York Times: International

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The New York Times is an internationally recognized daily newspaper published in New York City, New York. Content of the international section includes top news and issues from around the world, special...
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New York Times: Economics News

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Economics News about Economics, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times
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New York Times: Questions: Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] What is alarming to experts about the science and the politics surrounding Earth's rapidly warming temperatures? Small groups will have conversations about global warming with the prompts provided.
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New York Times: Evaluating Sources in a 'Post Truth' World: Fake News

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Need help determining fake news from real news? This seems to be a problem today. Find practical activities and questions to help navigate a media landscape in which it is increasingly difficult to tell...
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New York Times: 2009: The Year in Pictures

For Students 9th - 10th
New York Times photographers brilliantly captured and compiled over 80 pictures which illustrate many worldwide events throughout 2009.
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New York Times: Ohio Teenagers Guilty in Rape That Social Media Brought to Light

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Two teenage boys in Steuebenville, Ohio, were convicted of raping their classmate. Learn how their exploitation of the victim via social media ultimately became evidence against them in the case.
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New York Times: Un Inspectors Can Return Unconditionally, Iraq Says

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article deals specifically with Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri al-Hadithi's decision to let US officials into the country to investigate Iraq's Weapons Program. (September 16, 2002)
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New York Times: Huge Suicide Blast Demolishes u.n. Headquarters in Baghdad

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Journalists Dexter Filkins and Richard A. Oppel Jr. describe the August 19, 2003 bombing of UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. (August 20, 2003) [2 pages]
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New York Times: 650 Prompts for Narrative and Personal Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A wonderful collection of 650 writing prompts organized into categories and issues, e.g., role models, family, memories, race, gender, sexuality, social media, etc. Each prompt is linked to an article on that topic. W.9-10.10 Write...
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New York Times: The Learning Network: Picture Prompts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An excellent resource for ideas for regular writing. Provides a rich bank of picture prompts with new ones added daily or every few days. Each picture links to a short passage with a writing suggestion....
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New York Times: The Learning Network: Student Opinion Prompts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A collection of articles, regularly updated, on topics in the media. Each article presents an issue and asks students to describe their reaction to it and what their own opinion of the issue is....
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New York Times: Insurance Policies on Slaves: New York Life's Complicated Past

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article describes the controversial history of New York Life Insurance. In 1846 the company began selling insurance policies to slave owners in the South that guaranteed compensation if a slave...
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New York Times: Nixon's Vietnam Treachery

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This article describes how Richard Nixon jeopardized Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam peace initiative in 1968 in order to win the presidential election that year. This information is based on documents...
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New York Times: Learning Network: 401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a list of 401 writing prompts for argumentative writing including topics about social media and cellphones, technology in the schools, gender issues, sports, TV, movies, video games, and much more. W.9-10.10 Write Routinely....
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New York Times: Scribd: Living Things Cause Changes on Earth Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This detailed lesson plan will have the students researching why and how animals make changes to the Earth. Students will discover that animals make changes on Earth for various reasons such as shelter, protection from predators, and...
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New York Times: Growing Pessimism on Human Rights Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In a 1988 article, New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinze discussed the human rights issues of Guatemala, focusing on the inefficient steps taken by the Guatemalan government to alleviate tensions...
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New York Times: The Bitter Legacy of Yalta

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] New York Times correspondent Jason DeParle reflects on the controversial legacy of the Yalta Conference. (November 26, 1989)
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New York Times: Books: Criticism and the Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Read Brooke Allen who, on the New York Times on the Web, reviews a book on Randall Jarrell and a book of essays by Randall Jarrell. Read some Jarrell quotes.
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New York Times: Steven Strogatz on the Elements of Math Series the New York Times

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] On this site, Cornell University mathematics professor, Steven Strogatz, shares his 15-part series of columns on the elements of math. He investigates topics ranging from negative numbers to subtraction...
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New York Times: The Roanoke Island Colony: Lost, and Found?

For Students 4th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] The mystery of what happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke has gripped imaginations for centuries. Now archaeology may be able to provide answers before long. This article describes the history of the...
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New York Times: Harriet Tubman's Path to Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site tells the story of Harriet Tubman's life and the development of the Underground Railroad. The author takes us on a journey to sites along the Underground Railroad, beginning at the farm where...
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New York Times: While England Sinks: Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drabble does not come out well in this "New York Times" review. The critic's comments on Drabble's characters and discussion of the influence of Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens provide insight into...