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January 2009
An Inauguration, Legacies & Solutions
Welcome to the new issue of ProQuest Teachable Moments. This month, you'll find school-ready lessons focusing on
President Obama's Inauguration, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Civil Rights, Pakistan, Big Government, Camelot, conservatives vs. liberals, earthquakes,
and more. (Lesson archives.)
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eLibrary
Equality: Emancipation to Civil Rights to POTUS
As millions around the world watch his inauguration this month, President Obama has already begun to initiate some of the reforms that he promised in his campaign.
To help your students get up to speed with one, ProQuest has created a new BookCart learning activity, "Universal Health Care Reform."
SIRS Discoverer
Democrats vs. Republicans: Solutions
The challenges facing President Obama are more formidable and unlike those of many other Presidents of the 20th century except, perhaps, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
How does President Obama and progressive strategies differ from conservative strategies in addressing our current economic problems?
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eLibrary Science
The San Andreas Fault & Earthquakes
The year 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. The quake killed 57 people but caused nearly $10 billion in damages. When will the next big quake hit California?
SIRS Decades
Another Camelot?
In 1960, John F. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic elected to be President, breaking the religion barrier. The election of President Obama marks a first for American Presidents.
How do the challenges and vision of Kennedy and Obama, both Democrats, compare? We've provided several SIRS Decades resources to get you started.
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SIRS Researcher
President Obama and MLK's Legacy
History will be made when Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the U.S. and the first one of African American heritage. On January 19, one day earlier, the nation will celebrate the annual birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King.
SIRS Leading Issues provides the content and unique five-step research process for students to learn more about the most important issues facing President Obama in the next few years: outsourcing, unemployment, alternative energy, economic policy, immigration, and taxation.
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ProQuest Platinum
Holocaust Remembrance Day & Neo-Nazis
The United Nations General Assembly has designated January 27 as an annual international day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era—Holocaust Remembrance Day. Activities on this day are designed to help people remember the destructive power of prejudice and hate toward any ethnic group, if left unchecked, can lead to genocide.
What are some of the basic beliefs of neo-Nazi groups? What are some major types of hate activities they sponsor? Why do Jews continue to be a major target of the neo-Nazis? What do you think motivates the formation of neo-Nazi groups?
Let ProQuest Platinum help students answer these important questions.
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eLibrary Elementary
Conservative vs. Liberal Solutions
During the Presidential campaign, President Obama presented his solutions to the problems of our country and the world through the perspective of a liberal (also known as progressive), which is generally associated with the Democratic Party. John McCain presented his solutions from the viewpoint of a conservative, which is generally associated with the Republican Party.
What's the difference between these viewpoints on addressing social and economic problems of the U.S. and world?
eLibrary Curriculum Edition
Government—The Problem or the Answer?
President Obama's policies contrast sharply with the policies of President Bush on outsourcing of government, tax cuts for the rich, and deregulation of the financial markets.
We've created hundreds of BookCarts that librarians and teachers can copy and adapt for immediate use by students. One of these BookCarts, "Financing Government--Taxes and Budgets" is especially appropriate as 2009 gets underway.
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SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
President-elect Barack Obama will be inaugurated as the nation's 44th president on January 20, an occasion steeped in over two centuries of American history and tradition.
Our SIRS Spotlight of the Month commemorates more than two centuries of presidential inaugurations.
Did you know that nine U.S. presidents were quietly inaugurated following the death of their predecessors?
Learn more with this month's SIRS Challenge Quests.
CultureGrams
President of a New Country
January 20th will mark the historic inauguration of the first African American president of the United States. Barack Obama will become the 44th president along with Joe Biden as vice president, and the ceremony will be watched by more than a billion people around the world.
For a twist on Inauguration Day, when the new U.S. president and vice president are sworn in, have students become the "president" of a new, fictional country.
World Conflicts Today
To Bomb or Not To Bomb
This summer, the normally cautious Barack Obama said that if the United States had "actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets" hiding out on the Pakistani side of the Afghan-Pakistani border and the Pakistani government refused to "act," then the United States would.
Do you think he was right? Examine all the issues in this World Conflicts Today activity.
Explore additional history-related themes inside Retroview and History Happenings, our hands-on social studies newsletters.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Holocaust Remembered
Annual remembrance of the Holocaust is important if students are to understand the prejudice that resulted in the Holocaust and other genocides across the world. Even today, we see the formation of neo-Nazi groups in the U.S. and in other countries who adopt the same beliefs and practices that resulted in the Holocaust.
Students should create a report of at least 150 words, or a presentation of at least two minutes and seven slides, that cites at least three resources and address the following essential questions for critical thinking around this theme.
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