Tackling the Issues: Critical Reading and Thinking About Crucial Social Issues

by Wyman E. Fischer, Donald L. Barnes

In this activity text, 20 short and balanced articles are followed by multipage exercises designed to help students analyze the issue, formulate an opinion, and defend their position. Organized under broad categories, each article presents the pros and cons of issues like cheating in school, legalized gambling, censorship of TV violence, affirmative action, term limits for politicians, women in combat, the morality of right-to-die laws, and more. A key supplies answers for objective questions and sample responses for opinion items. Grades 7 and up. Answer keys. Appendix. Illustrated. JWW211.

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First published January 1, 1996