Tina Turner: Simply the Best

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

In this digital-only lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read about the life and death of American rock icon Tina Turner. This lesson features warm-up photos, vocabulary practice, comprehension questions, and discussion questions.

Focus

topic-based
4-skills
obituary
Tina Turner
singer
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

segregated
palette
backstory
voracious
provoked
bicentennial
resilience
assertive
apartheid
raspy
intermission
leniency
A spinning paper plane