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Current Events Discussion Guide Generator

Paste an article, pull out vocabulary and a summary starter, pick discussion questions, print a guide — add a second article on the same event to compare bias and framing.

Saved guides

Each guide saves separately, so a semester of article guides stays retrievable instead of each new article overwriting the last.

Article

Class level

This changes the printed sheet, not what you see here. Academic adds sentence starters, plain-language word glosses, and longer prompts broken into steps. Honors GT opens the prompts up, leaves less pre-structured space, and adds a synthesis question at the end. Honors is the baseline.

“Print all three levels” runs all three class sets in one go, each page tagged with its level so you can sort the piles after they come off the printer.

Summary

Starts with the first couple of sentences of the article — edit into a real summary, or clear it and write your own.

Vocabulary

Click a suggested word to add it to the list below.

Guiding questions

Media literacy kit

Optional pages that turn this guide into a media literacy lesson. Tick what you want and it prints with the guide. These sheets scaffold the thinking — students do the evaluating, not the tool.