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CNN Presents Classroom Edition - Educator Guide
Eighty Days that Changed the World
May 9, 2003
Web posted at: 1:21 AM EDT (0521 GMT)
Set your VCR to record CNN Presents Classroom Edition - Eighty Days that Changed the World, a CNN/Time Special Report, when it airs commercial-free on Monday, September 1, from 4:00am - 5:00am ET, following People in the News on CNN.
Program Overview
In partnership with Time Magazine, now celebrating its 80th anniversary, CNN presents a unique documentary special looking at some of the most memorable and world-changing events of the last eight decades. In this illuminating hour, CNN Presents explores the impact of the Hays office, which brought censorship to the movies. It looks at the founding of the State of Israel and the arrival of the birth control pill to the world's mass market. It gets inside Watergate, which remade the American presidency, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, which reordered the world. In this landmark CNN/Time special, CNN Presents Classroom Edition looks at 80 Days that Changed the World.
Grade Level: 10-12
Note to Teachers: This CNN Presents Classroom Edition addresses contemporary issues having to do with sexual content in the media and birth control. We advise you to preview this program before showing it to your students.
Subject Areas: U.S. History, World History, Current Events, Government, Political Science, and Civics
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