Current Events Week 18 Assignment

Dear 801 and 802,

Below is the link to the WEEK 18 Current Events form. This form is due no later than 8am on Monday, January 13.

• Go to your NewsEla binder and choose from any article assigned on Monday, January 6. The articles are also linked to below.

• If you are attempting to score a "4" or would simply like to read and respond to more than one article, find another article from ANYWHERE ON NEWSELA and submit another version of the Week 18 Survey.

WEEK 18 CURRENT EVENTS FORM

Mr. Locker

Children's brains can be stunted by harsh parenting, researchers say

By Philadelphia Inquirer, adapted by Newsela staff

Dec. 19, 2013  midnight

A child gets a spanking in Germany, 1935. Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild/Wikimedia Commons

For young women, gender gap narrows for wages, report says

By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff

Dec. 20, 2013  midnight

Sheryl Sandberg (center), author of "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead," leads a group on women in the workplace and how they are looked at by male co-workers, such as being called "too aggressive," in Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 2, 2013. Photo: Jeff Wheeler/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT

No marijuana on our lands, the Yakama vow

By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff

Jan. 3, 2014  midnight

Yakama tribal member Katrina Walsey visits the grave of her sister-in-law Virgilena Jeri Walsey, who lost control of her car on a night of drinking. The 26-year-old mother of two died instantly. Photo:Alan Berner, Seattle Times

In some schools, homework doesn't make the grade anymore

By St. Louis Post-Dispatch, adapted by Newsela staff

Jan. 6, 2014  midnight

Sixth-grader Kyle Stilwell, 12, (second from left) and his sisters, (from left) fifth-grader Danika, 11, and fourth-grader Natalie, 9, do their homework in Fenton, Mo. Their mom, Niki Stilwell, (left) works from home. Photo: Stephanie S. Cordle/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/MCT