Glencoe Social Studies FALL 2004
Current Events Update
Glencoe Partners With TIME!

To the Teacher:

In an ongoing effort to keep you and your students up to date on the complex and far-reaching events that are unfolding around the globe, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill provides this current events update twice a year.

Produced through a co-publishing relationship between Glencoe/McGraw-Hill and TIME Learning Ventures, the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update FALL 2004 brings the latest information about important happenings, issues, and trends to your students in the vivid and compelling style for which TIME is renowned. On the following pages, you'll find news reports, feature stories, chronologies, maps, graphs, charts and poll data taken exclusively from recent issues of TIME. Accompanying these articles are questions and worksheets to help students analyze and investigate the topics about which they have been reading. We hope the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update FALL 2004 will lead your students to a deeper understanding of the latest developments in the United States and abroad.

Best wishes,

Sue Martin
Editorial Director, Social Studies
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Bennett Singer
Executive Editor
TIME Classroom

Browse the TIME/Glencoe Current Events Update FALL 2004 using the links below, or click here to download the files in PDF format.

SPECIAL REPORT: CAMPAIGN 2004
Collateral Damage
The Gleam Team
The War of the Flip Flops
Is Your Job Going Abroad?
WORKSHEET:
The Big Issues: A Summary
NATION
OBITUARY How Reagan's Legacy Lives On
SOCIETY Stem-Cell Rebels
BUSINESS Make Vrooom for the Hybrids
WORKSHEET:
Interpreting Polls, Maps and Charts
CIVIL RIGHTS Revisiting a Martyrdom
WORLD
IRAQ Taking Back the Streets
Heeding the Call of the Cleric
The Scandal's Growing Stain
WORKSHEET:
The Handover of Power in Iraq
AFGHANISTAN One for the Team
WAR ON TERROR Who's the Enemy Now?
EUROPE Where's the Old Magic?
MIDDLE EAST Prepare To Evacuate
WORKSHEET:
Current Events in Review
Answers
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Current Events Fall 2000 | Current Events Spring 2000
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