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IN THE NEWS: Pp. 2-5 n Match each person or phrase in the left column with the correct description in the right column. ______ 1. John F. Kennedy A. started the Peace Corps ______ 2. Hosni Mubarak B. modern Pharaoh ______ 3. Barack Obama C. led the Peace Corps ______ 4. Aaron Rodgers D. Super Bowl MVP ______ 5. Sargent Shriver E. U.S. President
JS SPOTLIGHT: GROWING UP DIGITAL, pp. 6-8 n Decide whether each sentence is true, false, or an opinion. Write your answer on the blank line provided. ___________________ 6. Kids today are bored. ____________________ 7. Scientists say that kids should spend as much time as possible online. ___________________ 8. Educators increasingly discourage the use of modern technology. ___________________ 9. Developing brains can get too used to constantly switching tasks. _____________________ 10. Computers can help many kids learn.
COVER STORY: Marriage—or else, pp. 10-15 n Use a word from the list below to correctly complete each sentence. become suicide bombers, bride-price, constitution, 8, 18, family tax, 43, guarantee their education, government, literate, married, religions, settle debts, single, 16, 13, tribal customs, tribute
11. The __________________________________________________ of Afghanistan allow girls to be forced into early marriages.
12. Afghan girls marry as young as age ____________________ . 13. Afghan husbands often pay a _______________________________ to the families of their wives. 14. Like Sakhina, some Afghan daughters are given away by their families to ______________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ . 15. Only about 13 percent of Afghan females are ________________________________________________________________________________ .
AMERICAN HISTORY PLAY: THURGOOD MARSHALL, pp. 16-19 n Write the letter of the best answer on the line before each question. ______ 16. Thurgood Marshall won case after case against which of the following? A. the 14th Amendment C. Jim Crow practices B. Howard University D. slavery ______ 17. Which Supreme Court ruling established the principle of “separate but equal”? A. Brown v. Board C. Miranda v. of Education Arizona B. Dred Scott D. Plessy v. Ferguson ______ 18. Which ruling did Marshall use, early in his career, to argue for a black student’s right to an “equal education”? A. Brown v. Board C. Miranda v. of Education Arizona B. Dred Scott D. Plessy v. Ferguson ______ 19. Who appointed Marshall to the Supreme Court? A. Hugo Black C. John F. Kennedy B. Lyndon B. Johnson D. Earl Warren ______ 20. Which of the following was the U.S. Supreme Court’s first Jewish Justice? A. Louis D. Brandeis C. Antonin Scalia B. S andra Day D. Roger Brooke O’Connor Taney
JUNIOR SCHOLASTIC • Teacher’s Edition • February 28, 2011 T-5
