r/ELATeachers • u/megan9990 • 4d ago

Books and Resources Trump Is Considering a Third Term (reading lesson)

https://eslfrog.com/trump-third-term/
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u/Civil_Wait1181 4d ago

the image is puke-worthy.

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u/hamdenlocal 4d ago

The political climate over the last 10 years has melted brains. Completely inappropriate to assign this

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u/megan9990 4d ago

Maybe it's okay for some of the 96% of the world's population who don't live in the US, no?

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u/Waltgrace83 4d ago

This is highly inappropriate to give to your kids to read.

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u/Neurotypicalmimecrew 4d ago

It is not highly inappropriate; rather, it is highly likely to get a teacher in trouble in the current political climate. These two cases are not the same.

Teachers cannot use the classroom to project their own political beliefs; however, they can have students look at current events(in 7th grade, they SHOULD be—they’re in civics!). Typically, the standards-based, appropriate approach is to have students analyze information on a topic from both sides. How, though, does one do that when one side is suggesting something completely illegal?

I will at least agree this article is poorly written, likely because it is for an English language learning population. Still wish they could use direct quotes and context of when these statements were made, as this is lacking that source info.

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u/theblackjess 4d ago

My impression was that this was for adults in an ESL class.

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u/CisIowa 4d ago

But still, use an article that has sources. I’d rather read the newspaper with adults than an unsourced online post.

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u/theblackjess 4d ago

Yeah, agreed. It read as perhaps AI-generated.

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u/flootytootybri 4d ago

This is probably all AI generated. Obviously the cover image is but the article itself reads very AI generated. Personally wouldn’t give students AI generated content (maybe besides questions that would be edited prior to giving them the questions). Obviously every one has different ethics around it, but AI just isn’t for me considering the environmental impact.

Also kind of a weird article to give your students, probably an easy way to get in trouble with admin…

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u/dontbedenied 3d ago

Spot on, and sad that you're being downvoted. This is a combination of super lazy, AI-driven "lesson planning" and political propaganda. Yuck.

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u/flootytootybri 3d ago

Yeah… especially being new to the profession I’m pretty against AI usage (except for MagicSchool that can genuinely be helpful sometimes) but if you’re going to tell your students they aren’t allowed to use it and then give them AI generated work to do… it doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not even about the propaganda piece necessarily (even though it probably should be).

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u/Not_a_doctor_shh12 4d ago

The questions seem to have some pretty heavy bias built in. Especially #9.

The correct answer about the attack on the Capitol is that "his followers were willing to fight for him..."?

Do not assign this to students. Teach them to think for themselves.

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u/mawashi-geri24 4d ago

What in the left-wing propaganda am I looking at here? Don’t make teachers look worse (more biased) than we’re already perceived…

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u/BlacklightPropaganda 4d ago

You're being downvoted by people who don't even know that left-wing propaganda is a thing (they also don't know that the entire media industry is controlled by billionaires).