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May 2018

Your guide to the people, places and events to explore this month.

What's trending?

#EPA. #BorderWall. #MarkZuckerberg. Everyone seems to be talking about Scott Pruitt, the pros and cons of building a massive border wall, and Facebook's failure to protect the privacy of its users these days. Explore the three FreedomFlix units below to build background knowledge and give context to the environmental protection debate, the United States and Mexico's relationship, and the impact of the internet era.

Environmental Protection

Key People:

John Muir
Al Gore
Rachel Carson

Project Idea:

Backyard Environmental Investigation

Primary Sources:

Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act
My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir

The United States and Mexico

Key People:

Benito Juárez
Jose Orozco

Places and Events:

Mexico and the United States
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Primary Sources:

Rand Paul, Speech to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
President George W. Bush, Speech on Immigration

Project Idea:

Country Profile: Mexico

News Article:

The Immigration Debate

Internet Inventors

Key People:

Mark Zuckerberg
Steve Case

Related Information:

Internet
Social Media
ARPANET

Primary Sources:

Internet Inventors Win 2013 Prize in Engineering

Project Idea:

The Internet: Naughty or Nice?

Turn to page 37 of the Internet Inventors eBook to see a firsthand look of World Wide Web creator, Tim Berners-Lee's first public web page .

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