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Reporter Held Hostage in Lebanon for Seven Years Dies

That's News to Me

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Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read an article about an AP reporter named Terry Anderson. Anderson was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1985 by the militant group Hezbollah and held hostage for seven years. This lesson includes photos, comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary, and a speaking task.

Focus

topic-based
current events
war
journalism
hostage

Vocabulary

globe-trotting
bucket list
peripatetic
blues
bankruptcy
chuckle
brutality
solitary confinement
PTSD
decompression
reconcile
humanitarian
A spinning paper plane