Current Events
You will be completing a current events assignment every week in this course. This purpose of the
assignment is to follow a theme in world history for a full school year and be able to analyze the changes
and continuities of that theme.
Assignment:
Chose one of the themes of the AP World History course listed below:
1. Interaction between humans and the environment
• Demography and disease
• Migration
• Patterns of settlement
• Technology
2. Development and interaction of cultures
• Religions
• Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
• Science and technology
• The arts and architecture
3. State-building, expansion, and conflict
• Political structures and forms of governance
• Empires
• Nations and nationalism
• Revolts and revolutions
• Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
• Agricultural and pastoral production
• Trade and commerce
• Labor systems
• Industrialization
• Capitalism and socialism
5. Development and transformation of social structures
• Gender roles and relations
• Family and kinship
• Racial and ethnic constructions
• Social and economic classes
Procedure:
 Find one article per week that relates to your theme.
(Your selection of articles must in global in scope and use a variety of sources from different
regions of the world - see internet sources below.)
 Read the article carefully.
 Record the proper citation for the source of your article.
 Staple a printout of the article into your journal.
Write-up:
Summary: Write a thorough and accurate summary of the major points of your article.
Relation to Theme: How does this article relate to your theme?
Share: your own reactions or insight of the article.
This will be graded each week and will count as a test grade!
Internet Sources in English
South and Central Asia
The Indian Express, Bombay, India
http://www.indianexpress.com/
Kashmir Observer, Kashmir, India
http://www.kashmirobserver.com/
The People's Review, Katmandu, Nepal
http://www.yomari.com/p-review/
Himal Mag, Katmandu, Nepal
http://www.himalmag.com/
Afghan Daily, Afghanistan
http://www.afghandaily.com/
The Frontier Post, Peshawar, Pakistan
http://www.frontierpost.com.pk/
East Asia
China People's Daily, China
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
Japan Times, Japan
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam
http://www.vnagency.com/vn/
West Asia/Middle East
Egypt Today, Egypt
http://egypttoday.com/
Jerusalem Post, Israel
http://www.jpost.com/
The Palestine Chronicle, Palestine
http://www.palestinechronicle.com/
Latin America and Caribbean
Buenos Aires Herald, Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/
Jamaica Observer, New York, NY
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/
Granma Internacional, Cuba
http://www.granma.cu/
The News Mexico, Mexico
http://www.thenewsmexico.com/
Africa
The East African, Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.nationaudio.com/News/EastAfrican/
current/
Daily Nation
http://www.nationaudio.com/dailynation/today
Independent Online News, Capetown, South Africa
http://www.to/co.za
Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/
All Africa.com
http://allafrica.com/
Europe and Russia
International Herald Tribune, Paris, France
http://www.iht.com/frontpage.htm
Irish Independent, Ireland
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/
Daily Telegraph, UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Prague Post, Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.praguepost.com/
The Muslim News, UK
http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/
The Jewish Chronicle, UK
http://www.thejc.com/
German Times, Germany
http://www.germantimes.com/
The Moscow Times, Moscow, Russia
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/indexes/01.html
United States
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
Australia and New Zealand
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia
http://www.smh.com/au/
New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Current Events Rubric
100-90
89-80
Has completed all
required entries,
May be missing one of
including citation and the required entries,
copy of article.
including citation and
copy of article.
Thoroughly and
accurately
Accurately
summarizes the
summarizes the
article.
article.
All articles relate to
the chosen theme.
Most articles relate to
the chosen theme.
79-70
69-or below
May be missing two of
the required entries,
including citation and
copy of article.
Is missing three or
more entries, including
citation or copy of
article.
Most articles are briefly Article summaries are
summarized.
incomplete.
Some articles relate to
the chosen theme.
Few articles relate to
the chosen theme.
Approach to global view Approach to global
Strong approach to
Adequate approach to of theme is not
view of theme is not
global view of theme. global view of theme. consistent.
evident.
Some reactions are
thoughtful and
insightful, some
inconsistency in effort.
Few or no reactions are
thoughtful and
insightful or reactions
not included in entry.
Articles reflect a
Articles reflect a
consistent effort
Articles reflect an
consistent effort
throughout the quarter. uneven effort
throughout the quarter
throughout the quarter.
(one entry per week)
Articles reflect no
consistent effort
throughout the quarter.
All reactions are
thoughtful and
insightful.
Most reactions are
thoughtful and
insightful.