About 5,000 sculptured and illuminated pumpkins dotted the grounds of the Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times
This week, in anticipation of Halloween, we’re running spooky editions of Test Yourself.
Below are seven paragraphs of the 2012 article “With Displays, Pumpkins Get Their 15 Minutes.”
Can you choose the best word for each blank?
When you’re finished, you’ll find a link to the full article.
Some people would risk anything, even their lives, to speak up for endangered children. Earlier this month, two of them — 17-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi, 60, from India — were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for doing just that.
In this lesson, we explore the issue of children’s rights around the world. Teachers can begin with an overview that introduces Ms. Yousafzai and Mr. Satyarthi and their work. Then, students can do further research into global education, child labor, modern-day slavery and related topics.
Renée Zellweger, left, in “Case 39,” which was shot in 2009. Last week, Ms. Zellweger revealed a new look, right, at Elle magazine’s annual Women in Hollywood celebration. Related ArticleCredit Mario Anzuoni/Reuters (right)
Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older.
Last week, after a “radically different looking” Renée Zellweger attended an awards ceremony, many speculated that she had had plastic surgery, though Ms. Zellweger denied it.
What are your thoughts about cosmetic surgery in general and about the flood of news stories and reactions to Ms. Zellweger? Why do you think people seemed to care so much about how her face looks?
To scare its Halloween Horror Nights visitors moving on foot, Universal Orlando uses lighting, fog machines, video projections and actors popping up in the rooms of haunted houses.Credit Sheri Lowen/Universal Orlando Resort
This week, in anticipation of Halloween, we’re running spooky editions of Test Yourself.
Below are the first eight paragraphs of the 2011 article “The Real Scare Is Not Being Scary.”
Can you choose the best word for each blank?
When you’re finished, you’ll find a link to the full article.
1. a hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay 2. a portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it 3. board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used 4. the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art 5. a mattress filled with straw or a pad made of quilts; used as a bed
Above is a photograph related to one of the news stories we followed the past week. Do you know what it shows? Go to the end of this quiz to find out.Credit J. Martin Harris Photography/Paragon Space Development Corporation
Have you been following the news?
Take our quiz to see what you know and to learn more, and look for a new edition each week on Tuesday morning.
Previous generations tended to get their news from network news anchors or the hometown newspaper. Then came cable and the Internet, and the news business still continues to evolve. More and more consumers — especially young people — are now getting their news from Facebook and other social media sites.
Many of the people who read this article will do so because Greg Marra, 26, a Facebook engineer, calculated that it was the kind of thing they might enjoy.
Mr. Marra’s team designs the code that drives Facebook’s News Feed — the stream of updates, photographs, videos and stories that users see. He is also fast becoming one of the most influential people in the news business.