Prediction: As part of larger NPR series "Trumps First 100 Days", I'm predicting that this article may take a more critical stance on Trump's attitude towards his daily briefings. Also, this picture is a key feature in this headline because it's been part of a firestorm of Trump memes of late that have definitely taken a negative tone.

Prediction: As part of larger NPR series "Trumps First 100 Days", I'm predicting that this article may take a more critical stance on Trump's attitude towards his daily briefings. Also, this picture is a key feature in this headline because it's been part of a firestorm of Trump memes of late that have definitely taken a negative tone.

This YouTube video titled "What is a Meme" is another resourceful alternative text for students and teachers alike to examine. The authors give a three minute history of memes and provide insight into how some of the most popular ones have gained that status. Before students create their own memes they must understand what an actual meme is and how they can relate to popular culture topics. No matter what the interest level of a student in this project, this YouTube video will engage them because it's short, witty, and the hosts are actually depicting meme characters that most students have seen over time (that they reference).

This Digital History page about Political Cartoons is a great starting point for students of various comprehension and familiarity levels with the sub-topic within social studies / the study of popular culture of political cartoons. Each link takes students to simple definitions of "how to do history through political cartoons", "inquiry questions" and the "background of political cartoons" so students can familiarize themselves with them. At the end, students can link to some of the most popular ones throughout history, mostly created by Harpers Bizzare. Creating an assignment in which students analyze and create political cartoons from the past then political memes from the present would be an exciting way to show the ways in which politics have been examined through popular culture overtime.

For the last several years, teachinghistory.org has been one of my favorite sources for finding "all things social studies and teaching". It's an easily accessible website that can serve students and teachers. Here is a lesson on 20th century labor about The Short-Handed Hoe which provides a sort of alternative history to the traditional narrative of this tool. After participating in this lesson, students of multiple knowledge levels will learn more about the labor and civil rights movement so it's a great opportunity for perhaps minority and other students to learn a less traditional type of history of equal importance to overall content comprehension.

The Digital History video about the Industrial Workers of the World is a great alternative text for students wanting to access more knowledge about workers rights, minority rights, and subjects relating to women's equality in the United States. It's a perfect source for social studies students- non ELL and ELL students alike. This video provides some useful images for students to imagine the actual material while delivering a slow audio explanation of this subject.

"Crash Course" is one of my favorite YouTube channels that I am subscribed to. It's a great source for both students and teachers to easily access course content for social studies along with a lot of other content areas! It's also a great source for those students who may be in the ELL category and are struggling with either content-specific vocabulary or just regular language comprehension. The animations, length of the videos, and the synopsis the narrators provide all serve as useful alternative texts for social studies students of multiple levels.

The author draws a lot on dat, population trend data, surveys and other academic sources. Not as much real life experience in the classrooms with students.

The author clearly has a background in demography at a higher level like a doctorate or masters. At the end of the article, it clearly states that he is a demographer and sociologist and professor at Villanova University.

I really appreciate the author's way of spelling this out for educators because I definitely see population studies/ demography as an interdisciplinary study but have lacked the words for how to communicate it to students in a lesson plan.

The intended audience here are teachers/educators. It's structured in a really "user-friendly" manner with short paragraphs & bullet points that make it an easy how-to format for educators to follow.

I believe this to be true and a complicated part of the "downside" with online dating. If women are so popular on online dating platforms, does it make it harder for them to find love since there are seemingly so many choices out there? This is where the immediate face-to-face connection factor comes into play...