Historical News

Find, read, and write reports on FIVE current events news stories dealing with historical happenings for whatever chapter or unit you need to improve.

For instance, find an article in the news about Zheng He that deals with some new discovery or hypothesis. Write a report about it to gain extra credit for Unit 2.

Alternatively, you can find current news stories and write about how the current situation was created by events of the past. Write a summary of all the events that led up to the news story, with appropriate dates. This is a causation and change and continuity activity.