Andrew Pass's Blog – February 2009 Archive (2)

I've just posted a new set of discussion starters about President Obama's trip to Indiana yesterday. Here it is:



The Washington Post is running an article entitled, “Obama Returns to

Campaign Tactics to Push Stimulus Bill.” The article begins,

“President Obama took his campaign for a massive new economic

stimulus package to this hard-hit corner of Indiana Monday and urged

Congress to pass a bill ‘immediately’ to avoid the prospect of a

‘deepening disaster.’”… Continue

I woke up in the middle of the night last night thinking about my Living-Textbook. This is a website that contains hundreds (maybe dozens maybe thousands, I'm not sure) of questions that I developed related to newspaper articles. I haven't been keeping this up to date, but all of the sudden I thought of a really interesting quote that I just put up on the living textbook: "Yesterday's Current Events Questions are Today's Critical Thinking Questions. Great Essay Prompts!! Wonderful ways to… Continue