What's New on Newsela (October 2023)

Here are our favorite staff picks from the past month. Take a deep dive into some of the most prolific authors on your syllabus, bring primary sources to life through classroom activities, and spark some debate about the faces of AI with these latest resources.

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This month’s picks examine literary and geological giants from all angles. Explore all the articles and poetry we have to offer and have students build their essay writing skills with an interactive video.

• “Overrun with rats”: Charles Dickens Museum illuminates author’s factory stint

• How to write an essay: The complete step by step guide for beginners

• The dangers of hiking Mount Everest

• “Introduction to Poetry”: A poem by Billy Collins

• This scholar is pulling back the curtain on race in Shakespeare

  

Explore history and society this month with articles about past and present trailblazers, primary sources, and explainer videos. You can even sprinkle a little parmesan–I mean fun– throughout your regular programming with a geography lesson on pizza.

• How Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery

• Pizza in America, by region and style

• “It's like a diary”: Crimean Tatar singer gives voice to her homeland with new album

• Primary Sources: Miranda v. Arizona, majority opinion, excerpt

• What is Yom Kippur?

  

The David Beckham documentary might be stealing your attention this month, but you can keep your students’ attention by bringing some sports action into the lab. Read about the science behind soccer, or the mysteries of the sea, and more!

• Soccer players react in milliseconds in penalty kicks. How do they do that?

• What is the relationship between kinetic energy, mass, and speed?

• How deep is the ocean floor?

• Science in the News: Ancient Whale Tips the Scales

• Should robots have faces?