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How Much Do You Know About Seychelles?

What Do You Eat for Dinner on a Typical Weeknight?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee’

Word + Quiz: bunkum

What’s Going On in This Picture? | Sept. 30, 2019

Lesson of the Day: ‘Nancy Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry of Trump’

Do You Believe Aliens Exist?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Young People Are Going to Save Us All From Office Life’

Word + Quiz: reveille

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Oct. 2, 2019

What Students Are Saying About: The Bystander Effect, Fraying Friendships, and Endless Wars

Film Club: ‘Dancing in the Air With 9-Foot Stilts’

Lesson of the Day: ‘What Is the United Nations? Its History, Its Goals and Its Relevance’

How Do You Practice Self-Care?

‘They’

Favorite Season

Word + Quiz: svelte

Have You Ever Read a Book You Weren’t Supposed to Read?

Travel

Word + Quiz: churl

Weekly News Quiz For Students: Climate Protests, Whistle-Blower, Emmy Awards

How Similar Are Your Political Views to Those of Your Parents?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Birds Are Vanishing From North America’

Notes of Lavender

Word + Quiz: sororal

Why Do Bystanders Sometimes Fail to Help When They See Someone in Danger?

How Much Do You Know About Argentina?

What Responsibility Do Bystanders Have to Help When They See Someone in Danger?

Lesson of the Day: ‘Protesting Climate Change, Young People Take to Streets in a Global Strike’

Word + Quiz: crevasse

What’s Going On in This Picture? | Sept. 23, 2019

Should College Be Free?

Tipping

Lesson of the Day: ‘The Creepy Anglerfish Comes to Light. (Just Don’t Get Too Close.)’

Word + Quiz: rejoinder

What Students Are Saying About: Mental Health Days, Self-Doubt and Their Fashion Idols

Film Club: ‘If You Didn’t ‘Sharent,’ Did You Even Parent?’

What’s Going On in This Graph? | Sept. 25, 2019

How Well Do Your Parents Deal With Sibling Conflicts?

Lesson of the Day: ‘The Secret History of “Easter Eggs”’

In the Hallway

Word + Quiz: querulous

Studying the Teen Experience With Texts That Are ‘Windows and Mirrors’

Weekly News Quiz For Students: Felicity Huffman, Purdue Pharma, Justice Kavanaugh

Are You Going to a Youth Climate Strike?

Word + Quiz: palliative

Lesson of the Day: ‘For G.M. Workers, U.A.W. Strike Is Chance for Overdue Reward’

Missiles, Hummers and Tanks

Neighborhood Celebrations

Have You Ever Had a Significant Friendship End?