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With the current situation in Ukraine intensifying, it's important for students to understand what's going on in the former Soviet republic. Scholastic GO! helps you give students a historical context for this delicate power struggle with entries on:
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The articles we've shared with you this month are chock-full of great domain-specific vocabulary students can decipher using context clues. Here are just two examples:
"[UKRAINE] is well endowed in natural resources and was long known as Europe's, and for a time as the USSR's, breadbasket."
– From "Ukraine"
"Putin announced plans to have the previously elected regional governors appointed by the Kremlin...Critics, however, cited this as continuing proof of the president's growing authoritarianism."
– From "Vladimir Putin" |
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The Cold War
Examine an important chapter in US-Russia relations with this lesson plan on the origins, history, and impact of the Cold War.
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