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SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 29, 2007 Super Bowl entertains, sells and fills screens this week
 Super Bowl articles can be read without picking up or clicking onto the sports section. Invite class members to find at least one game-related report in the main news section or in the lifestyle, entertainment or business pages.
 Readers have many opportunities to interact with the newspaper and each other, and the Super Bowl is an ideal chance to share expertise, opinions, predictions and other comments. Send students on a mission to join the buzz at an online forum, to submit an editorial page letter, to e-mail an article to a friend or to message the writer of a piece they like -- or dislike.
 Not everyone "gets" football or appreciates Super Bowl hoopla. Start a discussion of whether the local paper's coverage seems excessive, about right or not heavy enough. Can students find any articles about people who won't watch or feel the game too much attention?
It’s nearly time for the only pro sports championship with the word “super” in its name, a fitting superlative for the NFL’s oversize season finale. Next Sunday’s Chicago Bears-Indianapolis Colts game is at Dolphin Stadium in Miami, though the playing field seems to cover the country. Newspaper coverage spills beyond sports pages; virtually every TV channel has game-related reports this week; supermarkets feature Super Bowl party snacks; non-fans will tune in to see memorably clever commercials and Prince at halftime. The live TV broadcast of the Super Bowl still is the year’s most-viewed media event, even in this era of cable, the Internet other competition for traditional TV networks. More than 90 million viewers tuned in last year. Advertisers are paying up to $2.6 million – yes, more than two million bucks – for a half-minute spot during the CBS telecast. Super Bowl XLI has the added element of a racial landmark –- the first NFL championship game in 41 years with two African American head coaches -- Tony Dungy of the Colts and Lovie Smith of the Bears. "I know a lot of great coaches who came before me that didn't get this opportunity," Smith says. Dungy recalls that there were no African American head coaches in the NFL when he joined the league in 1981 as an assistant with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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