Thanks for a great issue of the newspaper – tell the kids they did a great job. It really is getting better with each issue. Thanks for your hard work.
Carolyn
On another note, here is your blog assignment today:
1) Go to http://happynews.com/news/10262009/knowledge-power-ehowcom.htm
2) Watch the video about "e-how"
3) Go to http://www.ehow.com/
4) Find 10 WACKY/ODD "how to" topics on this site.
5) Post them to your blog.
Happy Thursday,
Ms. M
Hey NP Students,
Here is your next blog assignment, due by the end of this week:
Find a copy of the Declaration of Independence online. Read it and answer the following questions.
Declaration of Independence Questions:
1. Take out a copy of the Declaration of Independence and review the document for its main ideas. How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?
2. Throughout these core values, the relationship between citizen and government is described. What responsibilities does the government have to honoring these core values? What responsibilities do individual citizens have to preserve these core values?
3. How might some or all of these core values be important to the preservation of a free and independent press?
4. Identify the core values of American constitutional democracy that allow private citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions.
5. What responsibilities do producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information?
