Mother & Son Reunited after Counterfeit Adoption

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read a full-length article about a man who was reunited with his birth mother 42 years after a counterfeit adoption. This lesson includes a video, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary, and a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
adoption
crime
Chile
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

suffocate
dispose of
counterfeit
coincide
dam
bookend
inventory
unwitting
extortion
compromise
recognition
pervasiveness
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