Homework for Tuesday, November 13

How much is that college major worth?  A lot if you study petroleum engineering
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2015129870_collegemajors24.html

Read the article and:

·         Write a one paragraph summary of the information.

·         Write a one paragraph response.  The response should include your opinion and a reference to the information learned in American Ways, Chapter 9.

·         Choose two sentences to paraphrase.   Write the original sentence and your paraphrase. 

Article for Homweork, October 29

This article is from April, 2011, BUT it is relevant to our chapter and things like this happen today.
http://seattletimes.com/html/microsoft/2014841923_microsoft22.html

Homework for a TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

Read and summarize both articles (1 paragraph each).  Choose 1 sentence to paraphrase from either article.  Write a response to ONE of the articles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/sunday-review/candidates-and-the-truth-about-america.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0    * You may only read the NY Times for free four times per month, so you should print this article if you want to read it several times. 

http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2019484467_danny21.html

Obama's Closing Statement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxKv3eNEMVw

What do the following mean?

• free enterprise
• reward risk takers
• have a fair shot
• do their fair share

Seattle Times Article for Monday, October 22

Write two paragraphs about the following editorial.

1. Summarize the writer's opinion.  Include at least two major supporting arguments for her point of view.
2. Paraphrase one sentence.  Write the original sentence using " ".  Write the paraphrase beneath it.
3. Repond with YOUR opinion.  Include at least two major supporting arguments AND refer to the article when writing about your opinion. 

http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2019441161_daniellecampoamoropedxml.html

US Political Parties

DUE TUESDAY, October 15:  Read the following articles and write TWO one paragraph summaries.  Use your own words and write in complete sentences.
Paragraph 1:  Summarize the meaning of red states and blue states.
Paragraph 2:  Summarize the similarities and (mainly) differences between the Democrats and Republicans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states 

http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican 

Articles for Monday, October 8

Read the following articles in the Seattle Times from Wednesday, October 3. 

• Write a one paragraph SUMMARY  for each story.
• Write two discussion questions for each story.   

1.  King County sheriff makes case for pot

http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2019324549_danny03.html 

 2.  Border Patrol agent gunned down

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019324881_borderpatrol03.html    

 3.  Baby bust continues: U.S. births down for 4th year

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019323920_births03.html

Vocabulary Websites

We will work a lot on building your academic vocabulary.  The AWL (Academic Word List) website below has the complete list in addition to numerous helpful vocabulary exercises for you to work on. 

http://www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/


The thesaurus website below will be very helpful in paraphrasing, something we will be working on all quarter.

http://thesaurus.com/Roget-Alpha-Index.html         

1st Newspaper Article

Welcome to CB6!  Fall 2012 should be an exciting time to be learning more about American culture.  Because of the presidential election, there is a lot of discussion about who we Americans are as a country and what is important to us.  Our class will read newspaper and magazine articles to find out more about all of this.  The link to the first article is below.  I will also give you a hard copy this time, in addition to a homework handout, due Monday, October 1.  

I hope you all had a great summer and read a little English if you went back home! 
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2018993917_cvnnation26.html