Trump Deploys Troops to LA Immigration Protests

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 6–12

In this lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read about President Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over immigration raids. This lesson includes photos, a vocabulary review, comprehension questions, and a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
immigration
Los Angeles

Vocabulary

authorization
sovereignty
logistical
mobilize
obliterate
deployment
restraining order
escalate
blatant
pawn
thoroughfare
munitions
A spinning paper plane