Description
Are you looking for some fresh and modern high school reading comprehension passages and questions for your students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade? These passages are about current events and economic issues that will affect your students now and in the future. They could be used in ELA, SS, Economics, or Family and Consumer Sciences classes.
What You Get:
Each reading comprehension passage is two pages long.
After, there are a variety of worksheets to go along with each passage:
- vocabulary words
- reading comprehension questions
- written reflection
- math integration (for Computer Algorithms & Social Security lessons)
- Venn diagram (for CPP vs Social Security passage)
All of the reading comprehension passages are written at a high school reading level by a Certified Teacher (no AI is used) and they do not require your students to have any previous experience with the topic.
Topics Included:
- Computer Algorithms (8-Page PDF): Teach your students about how their everyday lives can be influenced by the computer algorithms they come into contact with on search engines, social media, and even driving apps.
- Universal Basic Income (7-Page PDF): As income inequality continues to rise in countries like Canada and the United States, some people are suggesting Universal Basic Income as a social program that could help make society more fair. What is it? How would it work?
- Trickle Down Economics (7-Page PDF): Speaking again of rising income inequality; how did we get to this point? Learn about economic changes in the 1980s that were supposed to help all citizens, but ended up making the rich more wealthy.
- Labor Unions (7-Page PDF): Teach your students a brief history of labor unions. Then learn about current issues and the decline of these bargaining groups for workers in the 21st century.
- Canada Pension Plan vs. Social Security (5-Page PDF): One day your students will retire. Teach them about the government retirement programs in Canada and the United States as they complete a Venn Diagram to compare the two programs.
Complete ANSWER KEYS are included with each lesson to make marking a breeze.
Grades to Use With:
These reading comprehension passages and worksheets are designed for students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade in high school classes including:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Introduction to Economics
- Family and Consumer Sciences
High School Reading Comprehension Passages & Questions Current Events ELA SS
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Description
Are you looking for some fresh and modern high school reading comprehension passages and questions for your students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade? These passages are about current events and economic issues that will affect your students now and in the future. They could be used in ELA, SS, Economics, or Family and Consumer Sciences classes.
What You Get:
Each reading comprehension passage is two pages long.
After, there are a variety of worksheets to go along with each passage:
- vocabulary words
- reading comprehension questions
- written reflection
- math integration (for Computer Algorithms & Social Security lessons)
- Venn diagram (for CPP vs Social Security passage)
All of the reading comprehension passages are written at a high school reading level by a Certified Teacher (no AI is used) and they do not require your students to have any previous experience with the topic.
Topics Included:
- Computer Algorithms (8-Page PDF): Teach your students about how their everyday lives can be influenced by the computer algorithms they come into contact with on search engines, social media, and even driving apps.
- Universal Basic Income (7-Page PDF): As income inequality continues to rise in countries like Canada and the United States, some people are suggesting Universal Basic Income as a social program that could help make society more fair. What is it? How would it work?
- Trickle Down Economics (7-Page PDF): Speaking again of rising income inequality; how did we get to this point? Learn about economic changes in the 1980s that were supposed to help all citizens, but ended up making the rich more wealthy.
- Labor Unions (7-Page PDF): Teach your students a brief history of labor unions. Then learn about current issues and the decline of these bargaining groups for workers in the 21st century.
- Canada Pension Plan vs. Social Security (5-Page PDF): One day your students will retire. Teach them about the government retirement programs in Canada and the United States as they complete a Venn Diagram to compare the two programs.
Complete ANSWER KEYS are included with each lesson to make marking a breeze.
Grades to Use With:
These reading comprehension passages and worksheets are designed for students in 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade in high school classes including:
- English Language Arts
- Social Studies
- Introduction to Economics
- Family and Consumer Sciences
