Upfront quiz show.

Use with articles throughout the issue. Divide the class into 2-4 teams. Read the statements below, which are answers to questions. In this game, modeled after the TV show Jeopardy!, students must give their answers in the form of questions. After reading each statement, the teacher recognizes the first team to raise a hand. A correct answer is worth 10 points. For an incorrect answer, deduct 10 points and allow the other team (or if there are several teams, the team with the first hand raised) to respond. That team will then get 10 points for a correct answer or suffer a 10-point penalty for an incorrect one.

Statements to Read                                   Correct Responses

1. Vice President under George                      Who was John Adams?
Washington who called the vice
presidency "the most insignificant
office."

2. The principal duty of the Vice              What is the U.S. Senate?
President is to preside over this
government body.

3. This 150-year-old brand of                           What is Levi's?
American jeans is now produced
in other countries.

4. Etch A Sketch, the popular drawing                What is Hong Kong?
toy, used to be made in Ohio. Now
it's manufactured in Shenzhen near
this major Chinese city.

5. All major league baseballs are                   What is Costa Rica?
handmade in this Central American
country.

6. The capital of Haiti.                        What is Port-au-Prince?

7. Haiti's principal, environmental.          What is deforestation (or
problem.                                    the cutting down of trees]?

8. In 1961, this President proposed            Who was John F. Kennedy?
that the U.S. send a man to the
moon by the end of the decade.

9. This first American to orbit the                  Who is John Glenn?
Earth was tater elected a
Democratic Senator from Ohio.

10. Attorney General John Ashcroft             What is the Patriot Act?
staunchly defends the need for
this antiterrorism law.

The skills exercises on pages 4, 5, and
6 of this teaching guide are for you to
photocopy and hand out in class.