Tuesday, April 1, 2008

APRIL 1st HOMEWORK

Homework:
SPELLING: write 6 words 3 Xs and each one in a sentence
MATH: pages 69+70
GOVT: finish a first draft of your persuasive piece.
Four paragraphs. Here is an outline to help you organize:
1.Introduction: What is the idea and why in a few strong sentences.
2.Why we need to do this? Arguments "for" the idea; using some facts about paper and global warming from the Mueller Study. Also include 2 Arguments "against" and rebut them.
3.Show how to do this? Show how to change the margins AND how changing the margins can save trees, clean air, reduce waste etc.
4. A strong ending that repeats the main idea in a new way.
Look at http://www.changethemargins.com/

We are looking for community newspapers in:
Weston, Boston = (JP West Roxbury), Newton, Everret, Watertown, Waltham, Carlisle, Brookline, Arlington as a place to publish our finished work.
READING: 30 minutes of independent reading.

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