Current Events Week 1 Local

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/523900.html?nav=742





How does this make you feel about the community? Do you feel safe? Do you think that you will get looked at differently now in the community because the two suspects are your age?

Current Events Week 1 Goverment/Politics

http://video.on.nytimes.com/




Go to this website and click on Campaign Styles, and watch the video about the NYC mayoral race. What are the differences in campaign styles? Who do you think will win the election? What are the better of the two styles, which one would you choose and why?

Current Events Week 1 American News

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/health/28flu.html?_r=1&ref=us

This article is about the swine flu, and the large amounts of people that are lining up for the swine flu vaccine. People are being turned because they are trying to save the vaccine for children, but now people are lying in order to get vaccinated. Is there a right or wrong way to distribute the vaccine? What would you do if you were faced with the decision of choosing who gets the flu vaccination.

Current Events Week 1 World News

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/world/asia/29pstan.html?_r=1&hp







What bombing took place? Is this a random event or has there been an increase in these terrorist attacks in the past weeks? What do you think the correct response should be? Should American government step in and help or should we let their government take care of the terrorist problems themselves

Current Events Week 1 Hot Topics

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Y/z/2/cable-news-carried-away.jpg




Go to this website, and look at the political cartoon. What is the catroon about? Is there a certain event the cartoonist is reffering to? What is he implying about the cable news media? Do you agree or disagree

Current Events Week 1 Technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/books/01book.html?scp=1&sq=october%201,%202009&st=cse





This article is about new technology that mixes videos and books, called vooks. What exactly are vooks? Do a lot of authors like the new format? Do you think these new vooks will eventually take the place of real books? Why or why not?

Current Events Week 1 Movies

Go to http://movies.nytimes.com/pages/movies/index.html and pick one movie review written on this site. Summarize the review and then briefly give your opinion on the review. Would you go see this movie? Why or why not?

Current Events Week 1 Sports

The first game of the World Series will be played Wednesday, between the Yankees and the Phillies. Who d o you think the winner will be? Back up your opinion with statistical data from these three sites.




http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/notebook?page=bbtn




http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=291028110






http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=bryant_howard&id=4595580