Monday, June 25, 2012

6/25/2012 Econ and Gov assignments

6/25/2012

Econ - Finish budgets

Extra Credit assignment (5 points)

Read article and pick 7 of the blog questions to answer and post on your blog.

 http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-14/opinion/mccartney.head.start_1_early-childhood-education-poor-children-single-best-investment?_s=PM:OPINION

Gov -

Greek government questions with article
1. Did the Greeks only have democracy as a government structure? If not, what were the other governments? 
2. Who were not allowed to participate in the democracies in ancient Greece? Is that fair, why or why not?
3. What was ancient Greek democracies like? how were they different than the U.S. democracy?
4.  Were the kings/tyrants always bad? what would you have been like if you were king?
5.What was Sparta's government like? Give some details.
6. Why was Macedonia different? What type of government did they have?
7. Accroding to Aristotle what was the best type of government? In your opinion, what is the best type of government and why?
8. Pick 8 vocabalary words and define them.
9. Post answers with questions on blog
Extra Credit (5 points)
Read article and pick 7 of the blog questions to answer and post on your blog
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-27/news/mn-17698_1_drug-test

1. Discuss the who, what, where, when, and why of the article




2. The major theme or main point this article is getting across to you is….



3. Do you agree or disagree and why.



4. Can you find a counter-argument/another argument to this article? After you read it, which one supports your beliefs more?



5. What did you learn about reading and discussing this article?



6. When you leave this classroom, in three sentences what will you take with you from this article?



7. Make sure to double check all your responses in your blog for punctuation errors (spelling, commas, periods, run-on sentences…)



8. Go to Mr.Belzberg’s blog and send him an email upon completion of blog post.



9. Read two-four other blogs from your class.



10. Comment on at least two blogs. Let them know if agree or disagree, but be respectful, you will be graded on your comments as well as your own blog posts.



11. Find 10 keywords and define them in the article you read about.



12. Write 3 questions you have after reading.

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