Stop the Clock!

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

In this lesson featuring modified content from The Washington Post, students read about an initiative by a Maryland politician to make daylight saving time permanent. This lesson includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, a photo, a video, and a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

discombobulated
pending
unlikely bedfellows
uptick
miscarriage
circadian clock
dominoes
reinstate
autonomy
dictate
cumulative
decoupling
A spinning paper plane