Roman Coliseum (from the History Channel)
--This video gives a brief overview of the Coliseum.  The main purpose of the video seems to be to connect the Coliseum with modern day stadium.  This would be a good way to show Roman influence today.

Ancient Egypt Videos

Tombs of Ancient Egypt:



Sights to see in Egypt (Modern and Ancient)





5 Things we Learned from the Convention

Party Convention: Ann Romney

Here is a video clip that shows excerpts from Ann Romney's address at the GOP Party Convention.

 

Good questions to ask for current event:

Does a presidential candidate's wife matter?

Ann Romney is considered Mitt Romney's "secret weapon."  What do you think that is?

Should we only look at a candidate's political career or should we evaluate a candidate's family life as well?

Inferences Activity

A great activity to get students and able to make inferences is the "Ordeal by Cheque activity."  Students have to look at a series of checks and determine the story behind the checks.

Here are the checks:
http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/research/eslclassroom/ch2/ordealcheques.pdf

And here is a woman's interpretation of the checks.
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57818

The students could analyze the checks and write a story in a paragraph about what they think is going on in the checks.  Then they can read others interpretations in the classroom and then read one of the one I've found online.

365 Thought Provoking Questions

Use this website to get students thinking!  Good for Journal Articles.

http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/03/14/365-thought-provoking-questions-to-ask-yourself-this-year/

Olympics: Cameroon's Missing Athletes

This CNN article discusses how many Cameroon athletes are defecting during the London 2012 Olympic games.

The article states that Cameroon is one of the poorest countries and that athletes are defecting because they want to have better training facilities/coaches/ etc (and thus a better environment altogether) than they experience back at home.

The article is good to show:

Movement between countries
Poor conditions in Africa
Still effects of colonialism
Etc. etc.