Class Notes from Sept 10, lecture 4
Part II - Group analysis about articles
- What is the article about and why did we choose it
The article is about a new way of
transporting drugs and we chose it because it is an important and a global
issue today and it affects a lot of people around the world.
- What kind of news is the article
This article is in the section breaking
news/world news from The New York Times
Summary:
The article is about a new way of transporting drugs. According to the article
the drugs came from South America to the coast of U.S. It was supposed to
travel from Ecuador to Los Angeles but it got caught before it reached the
American coast.
- Gather three words
Word
1: Sophisticated – Adjective – High degree of complexity
“American authority has
discover three new and sophisticated drug traffic submarines”
Word
2: Emphasized – verb – understate the importance, underline
“..though they
emphasize that no use of submersibles by militant has been detected”
Word 3: Envy – noun – feeling
resentful, longing after something that’s not yours and that you want
“...submarines that would be
the envy of but a few nations”
- Other group's articles
Health article about children that are
bullying other children, that have autism, in school
What can the society or the schools do to prevent this from happening?
What can the parents do to prevent their children from bullying other kids?
Local news about an economic company
that moved their company to a different place and the people working there couldn’t
(understandably) move along so they lost their jobs.
How will this affect these people and the society around them?
What will happen to the company/the workers?
Traffickers and the way the use to
smuggle the drugs – look above for more information
Health article about parents who want
their under aged children to be able drinking in their presence.
Why should they be allowed to drink in their parents present if they are not allowed to drink under the law?
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