NewsCurrents Extra
Week of April 14, 2008
Here is this week's issue of NewsCurrents Extra! -- providing you with exciting new content each week to help your students become informed and involved newspaper readers.

CONTENTS

  Can your students guess the newsmaker?
The "Who am I?" section features a different news person each week.
  Change in Zimbabwe?
Several days after the presidential election in Zimbabwe, its people still didn't know the results of the vote, and the country braced for a possible outbreak of violence as longtime president Robert Mugabe refused to step down.
Student Activities Encourage your students to use the newspaper.
Fun and challenging activities for you to use with your students -- written on three different grade levels.
  Go in-depth
Use these links to learn more about the stories in this week's NewsCurrents Extra!
Test your students' news knowledge
We ask 10 multiple-choice questions about stories that are in the newspaper this week.

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