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United Nations Millennium Development Goals

Hi Team,

For today, I would like you to research the UN Millennium Development goals. These goals are designed to help the poorest of countries develop the social and economic structures to provide for a sustainable and healthy future. These goals have been agreed upon by 192 countries, and their aim is complete them by 2015.

For today, please answer these questions in a word document and print them out when you're done.

Comprehension Questions:
1) What is the UN? What is their purpose and goal?
2) What is the G20? Explain why these countries are important in fight to end poverty.
3) What are the eight UN Millennium Development Goals?
4) Please provide a brief history of how the UN is doing in completing these goals? If you were their teacher, what grade would you give them? Why?
5) Which of these goals seems to be the most important to you? Which to you is the one that needs the greatest focus? Why?
6) Recently, the UN held a summit to review these goals - what was the result of this meeting?

Research Links:
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/unintro/unintro.asp
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/11/korea.ban.ki.moon/
http://www.g20.org/about_what_is_g20.aspx

Invention of the Year

Each year, Time magazine creates a list of the top inventions in various categories. The article is filled with with some amazing ideas and gadgets that have (and will) change how we live our daily lives. I'd like you to spend today reading about the inventions (if you have headphones you can also listen to the video clip) and answer the blog questions below. If you finish early, please explore the Time website.

Video:
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,672224345001_2030874,00.html

Article:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2029497,00.html

Questions:
1) Which invention was the coolest and why?
2) Which invention do you think will have the greatest impact on the human race? Why?
3) Which invention was the most shocking? Why?
4) Where do think technology will be in five or ten years...? What invention will be next?

Veterans Day and Newspaper

Today's Blog has two parts.

1) Please write a reaction to the assembly and your thoughts about Veterans Day. If you would like to write this section in the form of a Thank You to our Veterans that is fine.

2) Please summarize the article that you think was the most important from the newspaper last week. In your summary, please include the who, what, where, when, and why of the article. Also, you need to find at least one outstide link that relates to your paper and explain what else you learned about the topic from the NYT. Explain why this topic is important to you and for our country.

Due: Next Friday

Week - A Wave in the House

We've had a wave of Republians win seats in the House, and they will take control of the House of Representatives in January when the next Congress begins - led by Reppresenative John Boehner of Ohio. (The Democrats had control for the previous two years). For today's blog, I would like you to explore a website, www.realclearpolitics.com and read about what we can expect out of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives for the upcoming term.

Today's Blog:

1) Write a 250 word response explaining what the goals of the Republicans will be in the House - explain how they differ from what the Democrats have focused on. Be specific and clear in your explanation.

2) Do you believe this it the right direction? What do you agree or disagree with? Are there other goals that you think should be focused on?

Due: Next Friday

The American Dream

Today, I’d like you to read the following article:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2026776,00.html

Please answer the following questions in paragraph format. Each answer needs to have at least 4 complete sentences for full credit.

1) What is the American Dream?
2) Is your idea of the American Dream different from other generations?
3) Do you think the American Dream is still alive today?
4) What do you believe we need to do to fix the American Dream?

NYT - Blog Post

Hi all,

For today, I would like you take the Article you chose from yesterday's NYT's article and answer the following questions:

1) Please explain the who, what, where, when, why of this article. For the why, please explain why the action or subject is doing something in the article - this may be applied differently depending on your article.

2) Why did you choose this article? What value does it have to you? What value would it provide to our class?

3) In reading your article, please list ALL words you did not know and define them (google has an online dictionary, or there are plenty of others online.

4) Do you have an opinion or reaction to the article that you read? How would you frame a discussion on this article to the class? What debatable issues or questions could we tie to this article? Please provide at least three questions, and how you would respond to them.

5) Was there any noticable bias to your article? If yes, do you think this bias is ok, or are they missing a key part of the story? If no, do you think there is ever a situation when a journalist can be bias?

6) Please find two other news articles describing the purpose of your article from other news sources. Please explain how the coverage of these articles was different to the NYT. For this, I am asking you to essentially look at the same story, just covered by a different news outlet, and then compare the differences. In the end, which source do you think did the best job, why?

(Make sure to provide the links - use google or google news to help located, also you can check CNN, FoxNews, BBC, Chicago Tribune)