News App Artifact

Here is an email set to go to my colleague who teaches health.  It is about the Flint water crisis. She also teaches social studies. This could be a good starting point for a discussion about politics and real people.

I have my English students find news articles and write about them.  It seems fewer and fewer high school students read the newspaper (even online), let alone watch news on television. They just are not informed.  The common core state standards for English point to students reading more non-fiction. News apps are a way to get them doing that.