Here is a quick excerpt on Panama and the negotiation of NAFTA, paired with four questions. Pupils must read the short text and respond to questions right on the page. The questions are straightforward and ask learners to find facts in the passage.

Concepts

dictators, dictatorships, the bush administration, george w. bush, nafta

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Additional Tags

nafta, general manuel antonio noriega, war on drugs, dictator, bush administration, social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• The text is short, but includes a few vocabulary words; have pupils look up two to three unfamiliar words before responding to the included questions
• While simple, the resource would work well as a homework assignment or a very quick assessment