Transportation
Think of two different types of transportation, such as a scooter and in-line skates, a sled and skis, a canoe and a sailboat, a subway and a bus, or a train and and airplane. Compare and contrast the two. Consider issues such as speed, comfort, enjoyment, and expense.
Journaling
Cut and paste examples from your other journal entries showing unique or distinctive aspects of your writing style, and then comment on them, making specific reference to details.
Advice to the Fifth Grade Students
This year, you have learned what it takes to be a sixth grade student, what your teachers expect out of you, and how to succeed as a student. Write a letter that gives fifth grade students specific advice on what they really need to know before they enter sixth grade in the fall.
What's the law on downloading music?
In preparation for a lively discussion on plagiarism and copyright laws, direct students to research and take notes on the current issue of downloading music. The following links provide a starting point:
Music Biz Academy (laws and regulations)
NPR: Digital Culture (case study)
What’s the Download (explains the issue)
Encourage students to find other web sites with information regarding this issue. Preface the assignment with a discussion of legitimate vs. illegitimate web resources. During the discussion following the research, reinforce the principles of reliable sources.
Explain Yourself! - Math Integration Idea
You have been given a problem to solve. In addition to working out the correct answer, write a complete description of how you went about solving the problem. How did you decide what approach to take or formula(s) to use? Describe not only how you solved the problem but how you checked your work and your level of confidence that you were able to solve it correctly.
Restate, Request, Review - Science Integration Idea
Encourage students to keep a notebook for this purpose.
After teaching a new concept, ask students to summarize what they just learned in their own words in their notebooks including any questions they may have or clarifications they may need. Ask them to title and date each entry.
As a looping activity, at the beginning of the next class, ask students to share what they had written, and offer answers and clarifications for them to add to their notes.
Students can also exchange notebooks with one another in order to validate their summaries and notes.
Advise students to use the summaries and notes to review for tests.
Three Social Studies/History Integration Ideas
GEOGRAPHY
Challenge your students to identify a foreign country they would like to visit. Ask them to describe the country and write a rationale for their choice.
ECONOMICS
As a journal entry, prompt students to write about how an economic principle affects their every day life.
CURRENT EVENTS
Propose this fictional opportunity to your students: Choose one political person who is nationally known and with whom you could meet for one hour.
All essay are worth 60 points extra credit. Please check spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage, clarity, essays should be about 3 pages in length handwritten.
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Mrs. lawson! its me Hellen, I know I went crazy on Friday about that one white girl I found something that might make her look more stupid than I alreay had [MWAHAHA]
I found this on wikipedia.com under myspace history.
*Child safety*
The minimum age to register an account on MySpace is 14.[38] Profiles with ages set to 14 or 15 years are automatically private. Users whose ages are set at 16 or over have the option to restrict their profiles and the option of allowing certain personal data to be restricted to people other than those on their friends list. Accessing the full profile of, or messaging someone when their account is set to "private" (or if under sixteen) is restricted to a MySpace user's direct friends.
MySpace will delete these profiles if the victim verifies their identity and points out the profile via e-mail.[39]
Recently, MySpace has been the focus of a number of news reports stating that teenagers have found ways around the restrictions set by MySpace, and have been the target of online predators.[40] In response, MySpace has given assurances to parents that the website is safe for people of all ages. Beginning in late June 2006, MySpace users whose ages are set over 18 could no longer be able to add users whose ages are set from 14 to 15 years as friends unless they already know the user's full name or email address.[41] Some third party Internet safety companies like Social Shield[42] have launched online communities for parents concerned about their child's safety on MySpace.
In June 2006, 16-year-old American Katherine Lester flew to the Middle East, to Tel Aviv, Israel, after having tricked her parents into getting her a passport in order to be with a 20-year-old man she met through MySpace.[43] U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded the teen to turn around and go home.
Though MySpace has established rules on child safety, they were not enforced until January 17, 2007.[citation needed]
In December 2006, MySpace announced new measures to protect children from known sex offenders. Although precise details were not given they said that "tools" would be implemented to prevent known sex offenders from the USA creating a MySpace profile.[44]
In February 2007, a U.S. District Judge in Texas dismissed a case when a family sued MySpace for negligence, fraud and misrepresentation; a girl in the family had been sexually assaulted by a man she met through MySpace, after she had misrepresented her age as 18 when she was 13. Regarding his dismissal of the case, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks wrote: "If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace."[45]
In July 2007, the company found and deleted 29000 profiles belonging to registered sex offenders.[46] Hardline anti-pedophile organization Perverted Justice has praised Myspace for its efforts to combat pedophiles using their service.[47]
In October 2007, a study published in the Journal of Adolescence conducted by Sameer Hinduja (Florida Atlantic University) and Justin W. Patchin (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) concluded that most adolescents use MySpace responsibly: "When considered in its proper context, these results indicate that the problem of personal information disclosure on MySpace may not be as widespread as many assume, and that the overwhelming majority of adolescents are responsibly using the website," they say.[48]
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