Current Event!!!!!!

1.  It could have either been a farm accident or somebody not following the burn ban. At 10:30 a.m. officials let people in burn ban areas return home. The fire burned 34,000 acres and damaged 1,600 homes. The cost estamate of the damges is hundreds of millions of dollars!! Thats a lot of money!

2. Central Texas has stopped using paper textbooks and is now using online textbooks. Online textbooks are cheaper and prepare students for their future. The program isn't that user-friendly and it is hard for people if they need help, like the Robertsons. Melissa likes the online textbooks because there are videos, she can upload content and its more interactive.  leander doesn't have the money to fix their wifi therefore it would cost them even more money to make their wifi faster. I personally don't see a difference in the shift because it is all the same material just in a different format.

3. Traudeau legalized marijuana, dropped the US bombing campaign against and that changed the economy. They aren't going to bomb Islam. This will also change the fact that there will weed everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Alan Guckian is a semi-finalist for the 2016 Music educator Award. There are 25 semifinalists and he is one of the 4,500 who were originally in it. He has a pretty good chance of winning. He will through his students a pizza party if he wins.

 5. Shaka Smart wants the players to be smart and athletic. He is making new rules and ways to make the players have drive to be smart by only allowing intellectual players to have playing time.

current event quiz

 1. The city council can get free Austin City Limits passes but many members are declining them. They are giving them out because in the article it says "“City, through its Parks and Recreation Department, Police, Fire, Safety, other designated representatives, shall have the right at any time to enter any portion of the Property for any purpose.” so the council members can attend. Rick and Don thought that there was a rule saying that council members can't accept gifts. Romero confirmed that members can accept the tickets. Kitchen used the passes and Houston gave them to 311 operators. I don't think that there is any problem with this perk because the workers deserve it.

2. Oklahoma  has to change what they use for the death penalty because the drug is illegal. All of the states that use these injection have to find another way to kill their people. Midazolam is a "short acting sedative" is apparently unreliable.

3. The prime Minister of Israel barred his ministers from visiting and Old City holy site. He also ordered the police to stop letting people from the parliament go there. He didn't want to "alter the status quo". The parliament didn't care and they went anyway. Muhanad was an extremist and murdered two othadox men and was later shot dead. He was part of the riots.

4. Svetlana Alexievich, a belarussian writer who studies russian world war two and the chernobyl nuclear accident. Her work is manly non-fiction, which shows some rarity from other female writers that have won. She blends literature and journalism. She says that she is proud of herself and will proceed to write in the future and still has new writing ahead of her.

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Observation Practice

I sat outside with Claire at a picnic table. The weather was very nice, it was a clear day. We watched the english class through the window and there were a few other people outside. I saw people waving to me and then I realized that it was my boyfriend and my friends Mamie and Isabella. Then I realized that their was a substitute and he was shooting me a death glare so I ran away.

Observation

I went to the small gym to observe the senior pictures. There were two places for the students to take their pictures. The students were in lines that were more like clumps. The casual clothes on but the boys wore fake suits and the girls wore fake dresses which were just pieces of cloth. The students didn’t seem to happy but they didn’t seem to be pissed of either. They just looked kind of bored. They were all talking to each other. There were also students by the wall during what seemed to be English homework. I saw a few people that I knew. There seemed to be at least sixty or seventy senior students and teacher in there. Their backpacks were way smaller than freshman backpacks. The students doing the English work looked super bored. The photographers looked really bored. People were walking in and out and changing their shirts. Some of the seniors had sashes on their suits. The room smelled like feet and old wood. I could hear the small little bits of chatter from where I was standing but nothing clearly. Sometimes I could hear people laugh. I could focus on a certain people sometimes and watch their body and facial expressions. Nobody in the room looked mad. Anna, the girl next to me started talking to who I assumed was an English teacher because he was grading an essay. They started talking about college. She told him that location was a big part of what she was looking for. They talked about Portland and the west coast. The seniors were still taking pictures. I noticed a girl with Adidas leggings talking to another senior with a sweatshirt on. They weren’t waiting in line. A boy with shorts and a black shirt and slides came in and started talking to Anna. She told me that his name was Victor. I asked him if he knew my sister and then he told this story about how my sister was in a play with him and he said that she was bossy. I then noticed that victor had an iPhone case that had unicorns on it and it said “hater gunna hate”. Then Victor and Anna started talking Adidas slides. Then we left the big gym and walked back to the classroom.

current event quiz 3

1. The pope wanted to "break out of its cycle of polarization and paralysis and use its power to heal the “open wounds” of a planet torn by hatred, greed, poverty and pollution". He wanted the governments decisions to be for the people good and not just diced based on money.He was directing the speech at congress. This was historic because this was the first time His speech defended freedom of religion.  John Boehner invited him.

2. There is a debate on whether a football official said racist remarks or not to provoke a player to punch him. The two players can return on the 15th but Breed will not be returning. The chairman, Mike Motheral said that he was frustrated when Moreno, Rojas, Watts and Breed didn't show up for the committee.

3. The parents of Maplewood students were frustrated because one of the sixth grade teachers got switched to Blackshear Elementary. AISD wanted teachers to only have 30 students per class. This causes the advanced students and students who aren't as advanced so the students will either be behind or not learning enough. The same thing happened at Bryker Woods except they allowed the teacher to stay.

4. Whitmire asked for the attorney general's opinion on whether the state's new open carry law will allow people to allow firearms on school properties. This law will take effect on January 1. Whitmire said that the position will not withstand a legal challenge. Paxton's office has 180 days to issue the nonbinding legal opinion.

5. Rashad Owens, charged with killing four people and injuring over 20 people at South by Southwest. He was incarcerated with bail of  $5.5 million.

EXTENDED REPONSE:

 An obituary is basically talking about how a persons life was before they die. It talks about how good they were of a person and who will miss them.  They don't really talk about how the person died.

I think having that as an assignment would actually be very interesting to see what people would write about. Also you would learn how people want their life to be.

Franny interviews Franny

One time I was attacked by my friends dog. I was walking her dog and she went inside and left me alone with the dog and it attacked me. It jumped on top of me and ripped my clothes and bit my ear. My clothes got ripped and I got bit on my arms and legs. That was the first time I ever kicked an animal.

Current Event Quiz 2

1. The long shot candidates were before the main candidates debate. The helped them because their ideas were heard first. The gave them a little bit better chance of winning. Donald Trump was on center stage because some of the candidates didn't qualify.

2. The CIA came to look at documents and to speak at Bass Lecture Hall. The release of the documents would show that the government isn't just keeping secrets but they are trying to not harm national security. The public can visit their website to see the documents.  A PDB is the President's Daily Briefs. During the 1960s these were important because they gave crucial imformation.

3. Hungarian security unleashed water cannons and tear gas on asylum seeker who tried to get through a fence. Migrants tried to find other routes from Serbia to Croatia and this would bve dangerous.

4. A student at McCarthur High School got detained for bringing a clock to school and a teacher said he looked suspicious. He wanted to show his engineering teacher his project until he got suspended for three days!! Half a million people tweeted supported him and Obama said it was cool.

I first learned about this story during this quiz, because one of the questions was about it. I think that social media would be very biased but it would still be informative and would show what happened and who supported him. I think that the story should have been more near the front because the fact that there is still racism, let alone racism of a 14 year old boy, is absolutely crazy.  I would have put the story near the front because it is an important story.