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November 2, 2008 - November 8, 2008 Archives

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Tuesday is Veterans Day

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Download a free teacher guide for Veterans Day from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. The guide -- veterans day.pdf -- includes a history of the holiday, ideas on observing it in your classroom, games and a coloring book.......

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The "First Dog"

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

In his acceptance speech, president-elect Barack Obama addressed one line to his daughters -- Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10. "I love you both more than you can imagine," he said. "You've earned the new puppy that is coming with us......

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Dear children, you CAN grow up to be president

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Tuesday, Cranston's Jefferson family echoed the words of African-American families throughout the nation as they took their young children with them to the polls to experience history in the making. "So many of......

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 Tags  black history   Constitution   suffrage   vote  

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Tomorrow's history books; today's front pages

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By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

In the corner of my basement is a cardboard box labeled "memories." It holds a pressed flower from my first bouquet, tassels from high-school graduation, my college sorority pledge paddle, assorted photographs and matchbooks from places I've been and......

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 Tags  election   front page   Newseum   newspapers   Obama   president  

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Electoral College 101

9:53 AM Tue, Nov 04, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

Over appetizers at the RIGEA Fall Geography Dinner last night, a middle-school teacher described how she was still going through "post traumatic stress" from the 2000 presidential election when she "went to bed thinking Al Gore was the next president......

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 Tags  Bush   election   electoral college   Gore   president  

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Free election lesson-planning resources

12:18 PM Mon, Nov 03, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Avis Gunther-Rosenberg    Email

The folks at Hot Topics/Hot Serials are offering two weeks of free access to interactive lessons about the election: Teachers and students can visit the interactive wikispace as election news unfolds. You'll need a user name and password to gain......

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