Current Events

Tomorrow is Monday, and you know what that means. After the Current Events quiz and discussion, we will talk about "Dear America: Letters Home to Vietnam". By Tuesday, I hope to have the rest of your Cold War Unit exams graded; they will be done by Wednesday at the latest. It's taking a lot of time this weekend to grade those essays-- but most of you have done a very nice job, and it's evident that there was a lot of studying going on!

After we go over the unit test scores, we will kick off our unit on the Modern Middle East.

So, on with the current events...

• On Sunday morning, two car bombings killed at least 135 and wounded at least 520 civilians.

• In China, three coal miners were rescued after having been trapped for eight days. Why do you think the number of mining accidents is so high in China?

• President Obama has declared the H1N1 virus situation a national emergency.

• The three last questions on tomorrow's quiz will actually come from this article about tourism in Berlin, Germany. This article is a very timely one for us to read considering we are just wrapping up our unit on the Berlin Wall. Be sure to read the whole article, and try to view the Photo Gallery (though it wasn't working for me on this Sunday morning, so we'll see...)
  
  Either way, the article is available for you to read, so why don't you take care of that right now and get it out of the way?