Prentice Hall World History textbook Here’s the link to the website for your new World History textbook. This website contains chapter overviews, web activities, self-check quizzes, and more. Use the web codes provided in your textbook’s pages to access additional online interactive websites with audioclips, animations, photos, maps and timelines.
The World Factbook Need current information on a particular nation? The World Factbook, which is published by the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies. It is updated every two weeks.
Factcheck.org This website’s goal? Their claim is it’s to hold politicians accountable. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, this group monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
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The New York Times The New York Times is one of the world’s most widely read newspapers. On occasion, we will be reading op-eds and articles from this paper. Try taking its weekly interactive quiz on current events. See how much you know about this week’s news. It’s not an easy quiz, but you’ll get your score right away. (And you can take the quiz as many times as you’d like and improve your score each time!)
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