Current Events 9A You will be completing a current events assignment 3-5 times a quarter in this course.

AP WORLD HISTORY – ‘SPICE’ THEMES

1. Development and transformation of social 3. Interaction between humans and the structures environment • Gender roles and relations • Demography and disease • Family and kinship • Migration • Racial and ethnic constructions • Patterns of settlement • Social and economic classes • Technology

2. State-building, expansion, and conflict 4. Development and interaction of cultures • Political structures and forms of governance • Religions • Empires • Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies • Nations and nationalism • Science and technology • Revolts and revolutions • The arts and architecture • Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations 5. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems • Agricultural and pastoral production • Trade and commerce • Labor systems • Industrialization • Capitalism and socialism

Procedure:  Either you will find an article or I will assign one to you. (Your selection of articles must be global in scope and use a variety of sources from different regions of the world - see internet sources on back of this sheet.)  Read the article carefully and follow the format for the write-up listed below.

Write-up: Summary: Write a thorough and accurate summary of the major points of your article. Relation to Theme: How does this article relate to one of the course themes? Share: What are your own reactions or insight of the article?

This will be graded and combined will count as one test grade each quarter! Below is the rubric.

Current Events Rubric

25 points each 20 points each 15 points each 10 or Below points each Attached copy of article Is missing copy of article Is missing copy of article and chose article from OR did not choose article AND did not choose ------assigned region/article. from assigned article from assigned region/article region/article Thoroughly and Accurately summarizes The article is briefly Article summary is accurately summarizes the article summarized incomplete. the article Thoroughly connected Needs more detail on Article somewhat relates Does not relate to theme article to one of the how article connects to a to a chosen theme course themes (SPICE) theme Reaction is thoughtful Reaction is thoughtful Some thought or insight Little thought or insight and insightful and insightful, but not in reaction included in entry fully developed Internet Sources in English

South and Central Asia East Asia The Indian Express, Bombay, India China People's Daily, China http://www.indianexpress.com/ http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ Kashmir Observer, Kashmir, India Japan Times, Japan http://www.kashmirobserver.com/ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/ The People's Review, Katmandu, Nepal Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam http://www.yomari.com/p-review/ http://www.vnagency.com/vn/ Himal Mag, Katmandu, Nepal http://www.himalmag.com/ Afghan Daily, Afghanistan http://www.afghandaily.com/ The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/ West Asia/Middle East Egypt Today, Egypt Africa http://egypttoday.com/ The East African, Nairobi, Kenya Jerusalem Post, Israel http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/ http://www.jpost.com/ current/ The Palestine Chronicle, Palestine Daily Nation http://www.palestinechronicle.com/ http://www.nationaudio.com/dailynation/today Independent Online News, Capetown, South Africa http://www.to/co.za Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/ All Africa.com http://allafrica.com/

Latin America and Caribbean Europe and Russia Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina International Herald Tribune, Paris, France http://www.buenosairesherald.com/ http://www.iht.com/frontpage.htm Jamaica Observer, New York, NY Irish Independent, Ireland http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/ http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/ Granma Internacional, Cuba Daily Telegraph, UK http://www.granma.cu/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ The News Mexico, Mexico Prague Post, Prague, Czech Republic http://www.thenewsmexico.com/ http://www.praguepost.com/ The Muslim News, UK http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/ The Jewish Chronicle, UK http://www.thejc.com/

German Times, Germany http://www.germantimes.com/ The Moscow Times, Moscow, Russia http://www.moscowtimes.ru/indexes/01.html

United States New York Times Australia and New Zealand http://www.nytimes.com/ The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia Washington Post http://www.smh.com/au/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/ New Zealand Herald Christian Science Monitor http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ http://www.csmonitor.com/ USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/