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No time to scour the headlines or watch the news? No problem! We’ve rounded up the top words heard, read, debated, and discussed this week. The various events of this week are a study in the contrast of fast and slow. The lives of eight people were taken in an instant in a heinous terrorist attack in New York City. After several slow months of investigation and rumor, the first indictments were handed down surrounding Russian interference in the presidential election. Faster than you can say “Twitter," the president was asserting in robust language that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia to rig the election. Recovery from catastrophes like the recent hurricanes is usually incremental, but apparently with enough solar panels, an electrical grid can be restored rather quickly. Deciding on the exact nature of the exemptions allowed in the new tax plan is going to take Congress a very long time, but a Mississippi school board rapidly reversed its decision to ban To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a look back at the week that was, vocabulary style.

As you read Philippe Cousteau's "Why Exploring the Ocean is Mankind's Next Giant Leap," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 4: Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center, Mankind's Next Giant Leap, Living in the Dark, Your World

At the dedication of the John Brown Memorial Park in Kansas, former president Theodore Roosevelt attacked the administration of his successor, President William H. Taft, and started a campaign for a third term. Here are some words from the August 31, 1910 speech that introduced the philosophy of the Progressive Party.