Candy Airdrop

That's News to Me

Adv
Teens & Adults
Grades 9–12

In this lesson featuring content from The Associated Press, students read about the death of the "Candy Bomber," an American pilot who distributed candy to the children of West Berlin after World War II. This lesson includes vocabulary, comprehension questions, a photo, a video, and a speaking task.

Focus

current events
authentic materials
reading
interpretive
productive

Vocabulary

aviation
venerated
blockade
pearly gates
wrapper
handkerchiefs
ambitious
enclave
futile
precaution
heirloom
ambivalence
A spinning paper plane