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Rhetoric with rhetorical devices and rhetorical modes influences our reactions and actions. Language — adding new words, changing meanings and demoting others to footnotes. The way we express ourselves with words, communicates our culture and reflects our character.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/482">American Women's Suffrage at 100 Years</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>From Abigail Adams to Febb Burn women asked men to remember the ladies in their legislative endeavors. Along the difficult journey to their enfranchisement, women took their pursuit into their own hands — they organized, petitioned and protested in front of the White House; they marched, they sang, and were arrested. They voted and ran for office. We focus on the 19th Amendment, women in the Supreme Court and a 2020 Election Toolkit.</p> <p> </p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/481">2020 — A Year of Change</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>There is always change, but 2020 was a year of extraordinary changes — global deaths due to a pandemic, marches for racial equality and justice, name changes of schools and teams, a woman of Indian and Jamaican heritage on the Democratic ticket, NASA’s return to space shuttles — and mundane curtailments that influenced culture. Students read, discuss and debate, and write about these changes and those who made a difference.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/480">KidsPost at 20 Years — and You</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>Students and teachers join in celebrating 20 years of KidsPost. They are encouraged to write profiles, news stories and comic strips; create Gyotaku prints; meet young activists; and publish a newspaper. Students also observe Bethany Beach fireflies and learn the physics of roller coasters, Ferris wheels and observation wheels. </p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/479">In the Time of Novel Coronavirus</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Pandemics have spread across the globe before, but like the novel coronavirus they always bring new challenges. The personal impact as well as the tests to businesses, the medical community and local, state and federal governments are included in readings and activities.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/477">Animals at Risk</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>Animals who have adapted or face survival in fires. Animals in zoos and animal farms. Animals used for research and abandoned. Animals who are hunted, legally and illegally. In one way or another humans impact and respond to animals at risk.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/475">Cover All Sports — With Thought</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>Winning or losing season, varsity or JV, mens or womens, all sports teams should be covered by the school media. The Washington Post provides models for writers, editors and photographers and the Society of Professional Journalists guides with a code of ethics.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/474">To Impeach Or Not To Impeach</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>The initiation of impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump requires understanding the U.S. Constitution (Articles I and II) and the history of impeachment, the Whistleblower Protection Act, Ukraine and its new president — and many points of view. </p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/473">Three Months, 18 Years — Post Resources for You</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>Brain damage, a new competitive sport, advocacy advertisements, elder boom and young worker shortage, current global and national issues, our relationship with works and kids and an appreciation of Toni Morrison are covered in this month’s guide with suggested activities for using the Post reprints.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/471">Got Those Varsity Blues</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>After the FBI announced charges against 50 people in a college admissions scam, we take a closer look at college admissions (legacy, development, regular applicants), admissions essays (approaches to writing with authentic voices) and the effect of wealth on society and on determined parents (bribes, payments, sabotage), their children and other college applicants. </p></div> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="element-invisible">Pages</h2><div class="item-list"><ul class="pager"><li class="pager-current first">1</li> <li class="pager-item"><a title="Go to page 2" href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/taxonomy/term/79?page=1">2</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a title="Go to page 3" href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/taxonomy/term/79?page=2">3</a></li> <li class="pager-item"><a title="Go to page 4" href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/taxonomy/term/79?page=3">4</a></li> <li class="pager-next"><a title="Go to next page" href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/taxonomy/term/79?page=1">next ›</a></li> <li class="pager-last last"><a title="Go to last page" href="/web/20201205114107/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/taxonomy/term/79?page=3">last »</a></li> </ul></div> </div> </div> </div>  </div>  <div class="wp-column six end"> <div id="right-rail" class="module right-rail background" style="min-height:500px;"> <div class="padding-bottom padding-left"> <div id="sidebar-left" class="column"> <div class="region region-sidebar-first"> <div id="block-block-2" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <div class="padding-right padding-bottom padding-left">  <div id="slug_flex_ss_bb_hp" style="display:none;"> <div id="wpni_adi_flex_ss_bb_hp" class="ads slug flex_ss_bb_hp rr"> <script type="text/javascript"> placeAd2(commercialNode+'','flex_ss_bb_hp',false,''); 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