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SPELLING BEES AND MARCH MADNESS-In honor of this week's regional spelling bees, we take this moment to remind you “get”that spelling matters. In fact, spelling errors drive critical readers/writers crazy. Take a look at this cartoon? With only 2 words, the editorial cartoonist John Deering has captured onebunch of public displays of bad spelling, with some other errors thrown in: http://www.urlesque.com/2010/02/10/misspelled-political-signs/In honor of this week's regional spelling bees, we take this moment to remind you that spelling matters. In fact, spelling errors drive critical readers/writers crazy. Take a look at this bunch of public displays of bad spelling, with some other errors thrown in: http://www.urlesque.com/2010/02/10/misspelled-political-signs/
SPELLING BEES AND MARCH MADNESS-Good spellers do more than just memorize the many American moods concerningwords. They analyze their components. Check out the health care debate.
To be fair,this official study site for the images ofScripps National Spelling Bee. Note how the strumming fingerswords are organized by language of origin//. It's not just how to spell a word that matters: spelling champions also care about etymology, syllables, and word meanings.Good spellers do more than just memorize the boiling-over pots tellwords. They analyze their components. Check out the main story. Butthis official study site for succinctness, no one beats the cartoonist. In very few words, he/she must conveyScripps National Spelling Bee. Note how the main idea.
Using fewer words are organized by language of origin. It's not just how to relayspell a message is today’s lesson. Takeword that matters: spelling champions also care about etymology, syllables, and word meanings.
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SPELLING BEES AND MARCH MADNESS-Pick one list and choose a look at this Funky Winkerbean cartoon.
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The artist conveyspartner. Choose 10 of the ironic message--in 21 words--
thatwords you think are the teacher is repeating a word, which means “repeating”---hardest (maybe the ones you’d miss) and that his students don’t get it.
How canexchange spelling tests. How did you beboth do? Remember that concise? First, note how adjectives are eliminated. Second, fragments are OK here. The only full sentencethis spelling contest is infor primarily 8th grade students. Feel humble yet?Pick one list and choose a partner. Choose 10 of the second frame. Third,words you think are the imperative (“let me say”…) withhardest (maybe the understood “you”, saved a word.
Forones you’d miss) and exchange spelling tests. How did you both do? Remember that this spelling contest is for primarily 8th grade students. Feel humble yet?
Write the News: Results of your own writing succinctness,local/regional spelling bees should appear in this week’s newspaper. Look for the first technique iswords that both tripped up the most powerful,finalists and sealed the fate for classroom writing, practical. We don't think your teacher is too fondthe winner. How many of these words could you have spelled? Used in a sentence?Write the News: Results of fragments.
Now it’s your turn. Choose 3 comicslocal/regional spelling bees should appear in today’sthis week’s newspaper. Analyze howLook for the cartoonist limits his words. Does he/she use any ofwords that both tripped up the techniques above? Any other ones? Share your findings with classmates.
Writefinalists and sealed the News: Take a subject you’re interestedfate for the winner. How many of these words could you have spelled? Used in from today’s paper and write a responsesentence?
Write the News: Results of no more than 100 words. Watch outyour local/regional spelling bees should appear in this week’s newspaper. Look for too many adjectives and adverbs, which can weakenthe words that both concisenesstripped up the finalists and effectiveness. As a critical writer,sealed the fate for the winner. How many of these words could you know how important that is.
x-Ashave spelled? Used in a critical reader/writer,sentence?-Now write 2-3 paragraphs about how you appreciate words fromlearned to spell and what your spelling strengths and weaknesses are. We bet that one of the inside out, backwardweaknesses is the unaccented schwa. That gets us all.Now write 2-3 paragraphs about how you learned to spell and forward.what your spelling strengths and weaknesses are. We bet that one of the weaknesses is the unaccented schwa. That gets us all.
Jill Scott-Conklin, writer of this feature, has taught English and French, headed the Newspaper in Education Department at The Denver Post, and worked as editor in both the publishing business and as a freelancer. She and her husband live in Denver and Penobscot, Maine.
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The first page of a newspaper is “prime” real estate. It’s where the most important stories are often found. That’s why it’s helpful to understand what’s behind those stories – because they matter.
Here’s some background on a “prime” story this week.
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YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?YOU EAT THAT? DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-Remember when Mom used to admonish you when, as a StoryA Whaletot, you used to come in the house with a mouthful of clay or mud? That’s health food compared to some of the stuff you eat now--if you eat processed food. And who doesn’t? Millions of Americans pick up Fritos to snack on instead of a Story
Last weekcarrot.Remember when Mom used to admonish you when, as a whale in SeaWorld attacked and killed trainer Dawn Brancheau. The story was sad and controversial. Some animal rights activists believe that animals who should livetot, you used to come in the wild cannot be blamed for behaving likehouse with a mouthful of clay or mud? That’s health food compared to some of the animals they are. Other people believestuff you eat now--if you eat processed food. And who doesn’t? Millions of Americans pick up Fritos to snack on instead of a carrot.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-Those processed foods can pack a whollop of trouble. One ingredient is a major news item this week: hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP. The Federal Drug Administration has announced recall of about 10,000 products containing HVP after the animal should be shot so that it won't kill again. In fact, that same killer whale -- Tilikum--food additive made by Best Food Flavors, Inc. of Las Vegas, was linkedfound to 2 deaths before this one. But, officials at SeaWorld say Tilikumcontain traces of salmonella.Those processed foods can pack a whollop of trouble. One ingredient is a wonderful animal who will remain inmajor news item this week: hydrolyzed vegetable protein, or HVP. The Federal Drug Administration has announced recall of about 10,000 products containing HVP after the park.
Tilikum is an especially large whale at 12,000 pounds, comparedfood additive made by Best Food Flavors, Inc. of Las Vegas, was found to the average sizecontain traces of 6,000-9,000 pounds. Forsalmonella.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-The salmonella bacteria probably won’t kill you--- but it makes you sick enough that reason, special precautions are usually taken by people working with Tilikum. Some trainers who have studied the story sayFDA has stepped in to recall foods containing HVP. The salmonella bacteria probably won’t kill you--- but it makes you sick enough that the error may have been Brancheau's. She was lying on a platform very closeFDA has stepped in to the whale, enabling the animalrecall foods containing HVP.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-The list of recalled foods is too long to pull her in. Investigators are not saying that Tilikum intended to kill Brancheau.show here, but you can check it at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/. The whale may have been "playing" with her.
Investigators are looking into the story carefully. The Labor Department will determine whether any workplace safety standards were violated. The Agriculture Department will looklist of recalled foods is too long to show here, but you can check it at http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/HVPCP/.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-In the incident fromshort run, you can pay attention to what’s in the hot dogs, gravies, snack foods, dips, and dressings that you eat. Watch out also for MSG, an animal rights perspectiveingredient that can cause a variety of illnesses. In the short run, you can pay attention to see ifwhat’s in the animal was handled properly. They lookhot dogs, gravies, snack foods, dips, and dressings that you eat. Watch out also for violationsMSG, an ingredient that can cause a variety of illnesses.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-In the Animal Welfare Act. Our laws protect peoplelong run, you may want to pay attention to the other end of the food spectrum: the locavore movement, a nationwide network of folks who try and animals.
A Whaleeat foods only locally grown foods. In the long run, you may want to pay attention to the other end of the food spectrum: the locavore movement, a Story-Whatnationwide network of folks who try and eat foods only locally grown foods.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-Either way, so many stories in the news ask us to pay attention to what we eat.Either way, so many stories in the news ask us to pay attention to what we eat.
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-What to watch watch for:
A Whale of a Story-· Any statement
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-salmonella incidents related to HVP recallsalmonella incidents related to HVP recall
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-other foods recalled lately by SeaWorld about changes in their policies· Any statementthe FDAother foods recalled lately by SeaWorld about changesthe FDA
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-food safety issues in their policies
A Whale of a Story-· Statements by animal rights activists about animalsFirst Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to stamp out childhood obesityfood safety issues in captivity· Statements by animal rights activists about animalsFirst Lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to stamp out childhood obesity
YOU EAT THAT?** ** DO YOU KNOW WHERE’S IT’S BEEN?-news of community organizations sprouting up in captivity
A Whalethe locavore movementnews of a Story-· Statements by the investigating bodies with conclusions about the event· Statements by the investigating bodies with conclusions aboutcommunity organizations sprouting up in the eventlocavore movement
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On Sunday, they gave out the Olympics and saw some awesome athletes. This video shows a snowboarder who did a really scary trick.Oscars for good movies. Watch this video that was made before the video.awards. Then, look in your newspaper to see which movies won prizes. Then, look in the movie listings to pick the movie you most want to see.
After you BIG: question: What makes an athlete want to do such extreme sports? Find an athlete you admire in today's newsWhat's your favorite movie and write about why do you look up to him or her.love it?

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It’s Newspaper in Education Week!
For more than 20 years, newspapers have been partnering with local schools each year in March to celebrate the use of newspapers in the classroom. Sometimes referred to as “the living textbook,” newspapers continue to be useful for teaching many content areas across multiple grade levels. So, when you use the newspaper this week, know that you are part of a long tradition of creative teaching! Please tell us how you use the newspaper. Click the discussion tab above and share with others your best newspaper lesson.
Language Arts
On March 3, 1931, the United States adopted “The Star Spangled Banner” as the national anthem. Ask yourMarch 12 is poet and novelist Jack Kerouac’s birthday. Challenge students to review the lyrics and extract the themeswrite a poem using words they find in the song. Then have them skim today’s news to extract themes that might be woven into an anthem written today.
In honorheadlines. They can read some of NIE Week, invite your studentsKerouac's work here If they'd like to choose a storywrite acrostic poems using the words they would use iffind, they were teaching someonecan click here to read usinguse an online tool that will walk them through the newspaper.
Share with students the storysteps of writing acrostic poems.
On March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt talked to the Canadian women's hockey team celebrating their Olympic victory by skating ontonation for the ice, drinking alcohol,first time on the radio. He spoke about the banking crisis and smoking cigars. These actions caused an uproar for a number of reasons includingexplained the fact that one ofissues and the players was underrecovery plan. He urged listeners to have faith in the legal drinking age. Invite studentsbanks and to usesupport his plans. Americans found the archive tool of the E-editiontalk uplifting and comforting. Words can heal or hurt and in that case, they helped to heal. Have students find storiesexamples of words that are healing in today’s news. It may also be interesting to have students keep an eye on what President Obama says about the team's celebrationbanks and its repercussions. Your studentsthe economy today and to compare that to what FDR said. Students can write essays reactingread about and listen to FDR's address here.
The Barbie doll was introduced on March 9, 1959. She’s now 51 years old! Barbie was the events.first adult-looking mass-produced doll in America. And, in her 51 years, she has not been without controversy. Some thought the doll looked too adult and she has been criticized for having a body that is unrealistic. Some thought that girls would develop poor body images from having a doll that was so far from reality. Can your students find some positive female role models in today’s newspaper?
Math
World Math Day is March 3. It is a day when students from aroundPeople use technology to make their lives easier but it’s also costly. However, the world competeprices on some electronic items have actually come down in an online environment in live games of mental arithmetic. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students can play as many as 500 games, earning points for every correct answer. The students who answer the most questions show up in the Hall of Fame. This is an absolutely free event to take part in. Invite yourlast few years. Have students find five electronics items advertised and then go online to find mention throughout the newsprice of a similar item three years ago.
Have students look through the ways in which math is relevant to real life. Then show them this rapdisplay ads for new cars for sale and challenge them to write a math rap based oncompute the information they foundpercent that end in 9 and the news.
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On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain became the only NBA basketball player to score a hundred pointspercent that end in 5 or 0. Allow time for a game. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors. In that game, they were playing the New York Knicksdiscussion about why so many prices end in Hershey, PA. In honor of Wilt, have your students review the basketball statistics in today’s news. Have them compare the number of points scored by individual players to Wilt’s record. similar numbers.
Science
March is Expanding Girls’ HorizonsOn March 10, 1876, the telephone was invented. Have students look through the comic strips and assess the ways people communicate, based on what they see there. They can write an essay about how people communicate, based on their assessment.
On that same day, March 10, but in Sciencethe year 1933, an earthquake hit Long Beach, California killing 113 people and Engineering Month. This international effort encourages girls to explore careerscausing more than $40 million in damage. Earthquakes have made lots of news lately, with catastrophic events in scienceHaiti and technology. Havethen in Chile. Ask students checkto look in the Help Wanted adsnews to find jobs in those areas that might inspire girlsa story about a weather event and boys to study science.
Introduce your students to …Frances Gabe hated housework. She calledsummarize it a “nerve twangling bore.” She had to do something, so, in 1984, she inventedand tell why it’s newsworthy. Students can interact with an animated lesson about earthquakes here. Or, they can visit the self-cleaning house. Each roomUS Department of Gabe’s house has a 10-inch square “Cleaning/ Drying/Heating/Cooling” apparatus in the middleInterior site to learn about earthquakes.
President Obama’s doctor told him he needed to lower his level of bad cholesterol. When he walked back to the ceiling. At the touch ofWhite House after a button, it sprays a powerful blastmeeting, he said he was walking to “walk off some of soapy water overthat cholesterol.” Can your students find examples in the room, then rinses and blow-dries the entire area. The rooms’ floors are sloped slightly so the extra water runs off. The breakable stuff is protected under glass. The dishes are cleaned, dried and keptnews of ways in a cabinet, which is also a dishwasher; clothes are cleaned, driedpeople could be more active and stored while hanging in a closet, which is also a combination washer-dryer. The sinks, tubs and toilets are self-cleaning and the bookshelves dust themselves. Gabe continued to perfect and live in her house for many years. Is there a chore you don’t like? Can you find a creative way to solve that problem?
Housedevelop more healthy habits?
Social Studies
Students can go to this site and type in their birth year to see what happened that year. Here’s a great activity to use with this site. Have students imagine that they are working for the company that manages this site. Their assignment is to use the information in the newspaper to write a chapter about what is happening now. If 20 years from now, someone were to go on this site and type in 2010, what would they see, based on today’s news? What’s big in politics, in movies and entertainment, in sports and in business?
March 13th is Women’s History Month. Begin by introducing the work of the people at the first convention for women’s rights, heldGood Samaritan Day. Invite your students to find one in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848. At that meeting the “Declarationnews and to write that person a letter of Sentiments”thanks.
For Women’s History Month, this week have students consider Sojourner Truth. Born into slavery in New York (her name was draftedthen Isabella Baumfree), she ran away and signed by 68 women and 32 men. Modeled on the Declaration of Independence, the document demandedlater became a staunch advocate for equal rights for all races and for women. Ask studentsDuring the Civil War she worked with the abolitionist movement and became a popular speaker. She was the first African America woman to thinkbe associated with the women’s suffrage movement. Arrange a Think-Pair-Share where students talk about the audience for whom it was written. How do they think men offreedoms that time would react? What about women? After reading it, have students write twowe have. They can use the newspaper editorials responding to the argumenthelp remind them of our freedoms. What would they miss the Seneca Falls "Declaration of Sentiments," one rejecting it andmost if their freedom was taken away? As a class, list the other agreeing with it. Beforeideas they complete that assignment,developed, and have them readvote on the editorialsfive most precious freedoms.
Last week, a student in your newspaper to see howJeffersonville, Indiana was suspended for touching a pill, as part of the district's zero tolerance policy for drugs. The student was offered an Adderall, a drug used for treating ADHD and she had it in her hand but then gave it back. The school administration said that since she had it in her hand, she was guilty of violating their drug policy. Her parents say they are written.
A catastrophic earthquake happened in Chile on Saturday. Have students check the newsproud of their daughter's decision to seesay "no" to taking the latest update on the event and its aftermath.drug. This is an interesting story for your students to discuss. Have them compareuse the disaster therearchive tool of your e-edition to see if the disasterstory ran in Haiti. How areyour newspaper. If not, they alike? How arecan go online to read the story. Then, they different? Students can usedebate the E-edition archive tool to find stories on both events.action taken by the school.
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Lessons written by Deborah Drezon Carroll. Carroll taught for ten years in Philadelphia, PA and is the author of two parenting books and is currently working on a new one. (Check out her blog at http://raisingamazingdaughters.wordpress.com.) She also coordinated the Newspaper in Education department of the Philadelphia Inquirer for 16 years.

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Women in History
Elizabeth Blackwell
Hospitals wouldn’t let Elizabeth Blackwell treat their patients. Her fellow doctors often ignored her. Anonymous letter-writers harassed her. That’s what it was like for America’s first woman doctorJeannette Rankin, First Woman in the 1800s. The leading American medical schools turned down Blackwell in 1844. Women weren’t supposed to study medicine, most people believed.
But Blackwell didn’t give up. She studied privately with doctorsCongress (1880 - 1973)
Jeannette Rankin earned a spot in the South andhistory books in Philadelphia. In 1847, she finally was admitted1916 when Montana voters elected her to the Geneva Medical SchoolU.S. House of Western New York. Even before her arrival,Representatives. She was the students were ridiculing her—the school administration thought her applicationfirst woman elected to Congress. And she was elected at a prank and lettime when all American women did not yet have the student body voteright to vote.
Perhaps it was no surprise that Rankin was a trailblazer. The oldest of seven children, Rankin grew up on it.
Blackwell graduated ata Montana ranch where the headpioneer spirit was part of everyday life. Women were expected to be strong and courageous. Young Jeannette’s father encouraged her class in 1849, butindependence, taking her troubles weren’t over. When she traveled to Parisalong with him from day to continue advanced studies,day as he inspected the French doctors would not allowranch and his sawmills.
Like many women of her time, she wanted to study asbe a doctor. While working in a maternity hospital there as a student midwife,social worker. But when she contracted an infection that left her blind in one eye.
Blackwellwent to New York for training, she discovered the women’s suffrage movement for voting rights. She was borninspired to become involved in England, but camepolitics. She hoped that once women got the vote, government would do more to help the United States with her family in 1832. Her father, a liberal thinker who opposed slaverypoor and believedthe needy.
When Rankin ran for Congress, women in Montana and several other states had already won the right to vote from their state lawmakers. Rankin campaigned across her state on foot, by train, and by horse and buggy. She promised that she would work for national women’s rights, wassuffrage, for an important influence on hereight-hour workday for women, and for improved health care for women and children.
Just days after she took her sister Emily, who also becameseat in Congress in 1917, Rankin was put to a doctor.
After her Paris studies, Blackwell returnedtest. A lifelong worker for peace— a pacifist— she was asked to the United Statesvote on a war resolution against Germany. World War I was raging in Europe. President Woodrow Wilson and foundedmost Americans felt America should help in the New York Infirmaryfight against Germany. Rankin was one of 50 members of Congress who voted against the war, but she was singled out for Women & Children withmost of the helpcriticism. The New York Times said she “had justified distrust of her sisterjudgment and other supporters. The Blackwell sisters later opened a medical collegeof her opinions.”
Rankin lost her bid for women in the hospital.
During the Civil War,re-election two years later. But she did not leave politics. She spent the next 20 years working for social reform and her sister helped selectpeace in Washington. Rankin was re-elected to Congress in 1940. Her anti-war views were popular again because another war was raging in Europe and train nursesmany Americans were opposed to take care of wounded Union soldiers. Afterward, Blackwell settledU.S. involvement. People changed their minds when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in England, where her work pavedDecember 1941. This time, Jeannette Rankin was the way for English womenonly member of Congress to become doctors. Blackwell believed in preventive medicine and better hygiene,vote against the declaration of war. She was hissed and spoke out often on those issues.
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Rankin retired from politics when her term ended. But that didn’t mean she gave up her pacifist views. When she was 87 years old, Rankin led the 5,000-member “Jeannette Rankin Peace Brigade” in a Vietnam peace march in Washington.
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The first page of a newspaper is “prime” real estate. It’s where the most important stories are often found. That’s why it’s helpful to understand what’s behind those stories – because they matter.
Here’s some background on a “prime” story this week.
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WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-Let’s say you’re
A Whale of a student inStoryA Whale of a suburban Philadelphia high school and you’re at home viewing your laptop screen. There’sStory
Last week a piece of candy near the computerwhale in SeaWorld attacked and later,killed trainer Dawn Brancheau. The story was sad and controversial. Some animal rights activists believe that animals who should live in the piece of candy has turned into a pill andwild cannot be blamed for behaving like the school administration suspectsanimals they are. Other people believe the animal should be shot so that you’re selling drugs.Let’sit won't kill again. In fact, that same killer whale -- Tilikum-- was linked to 2 deaths before this one. But, officials at SeaWorld say you’reTilikum is a studentwonderful animal who will remain in a suburban Philadelphia high school and you’rethe park.
Tilikum is an especially large whale at home viewing your laptop screen. There’s a piece12,000 pounds, compared to the average size of candy near6,000-9,000 pounds. For that reason, special precautions are usually taken by people working with Tilikum. Some trainers who have studied the computer and later,story say that the piece of candy has turned intoerror may have been Brancheau's. She was lying on a pill andplatform very close to the school administration suspectswhale, enabling the animal to pull her in. Investigators are not saying that you’re selling drugs.
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-First, how did they see you in your own home? The district activated remote webcams-- 42 times--Tilikum intended to try to find missing, lost or stolen computers.First, how did they see you in your own home?kill Brancheau. The district activated remote webcams-- 42 times-- to try to find missing, lost or stolen computers.
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-The parents of the student in questionwhale may have sued, andbeen "playing" with her.
Investigators are looking into the FBIstory carefully. The Labor Department will exploredetermine whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws.The parents of the student in question have sued, and the FBIworkplace safety standards were violated. The Agriculture Department will explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws.
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-Inlook at the meantime, officials say the system has now been "completely disabled."In the meantime, officials say the system has now been "completely disabled."
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-And the district has posted a responseincident from an animal rights perspective to allegations of spying:Andsee if the district has posted a response to allegationsanimal was handled properly. They look for violations of spying:
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-What do you think of all this? Does the district's response satisfy your concerns?What do you thinkAnimal Welfare Act. Our laws protect people and animals.
A Whale of all this? Does the district's response satisfy your concerns?
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-Whata Story-What to watch watch for:
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-·
A Whale of a Story-· Any statement by your schoolSeaWorld about privacy policies and remote webcams·changes in their policies· Any statement by your schoolSeaWorld about privacy policies and remote webcams
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-· What the FBI concludeschanges in their investigations· What the FBI concludespolicies
A Whale of a Story-· Statements by animal rights activists about animals in their investigations
WHO IS SPYING ON YOU?-· The fatecaptivity· Statements by animal rights activists about animals in captivity
A Whale of a Story-· Statements by the family’s lawsuit· The fate ofinvestigating bodies with conclusions about the event· Statements by the investigating bodies with conclusions about the family’s lawsuitevent
Here are today's "prime" news stories. Are any of these mentioned in your news today?

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Black History Month is almost over. I enjoyed learning about it. Here's a
I watched the Olympics and saw some awesome athletes. This video aboutshows a group of brave childrensnowboarder who wanted to go to a better school. In 1957, not that many black children and white children went to school together. There was a small group of black students in Arkansas who wanted to go todid a high school wherereally scary trick. Watch the students were all white because it was a better school. Look at this video. In it, one of the students, now a grownup, talks about what she remembers.
After you BIG: question: Are there peopleWhat makes an athlete want to do such extreme sports? Find an athlete you admire in today's news who are brave? Pick one and write three sentences about the personwhy you chose.look up to him or her.

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It’s Newspaper in Education Week!
For more than 20 years, newspapers have been partnering with local schools each year in March to celebrate the use of newspapers in the classroom. Sometimes referred to as “the living textbook,” newspapers continue to be useful for teaching many content areas across multiple grade levels. So, when you use the newspaper this week, know that you are part of a long tradition of creative teaching! Please tell us how you use the newspaper. Click the discussion tab above and share with others your best newspaper lesson.
Language Arts
1.On March 3, 1931, the United States adopted “The Star Spangled Banner” as the national anthem. Ask your students to brainstorm things that they think are worth preserving. They could be landmarks or institutionsreview the lyrics and extract the themes in your community or even personal items. Havethe song. Then have them locate five items in theskim today’s news to extract themes that they believe are worthwhile for preservation. They should writemight be woven into an essay about the things they chose along with justification for each.
2. At a meetinganthem written today.
In honor of the National Automobile Dealers Association, the group announced that 2010 will beNIE Week, invite your students to choose a better sales year than 2009, which wasstory they would use if they were teaching someone to read using the worst in about 30 years. Havenewspaper.
Share with students look carefully at the ads for cars and determine what dealers are doing to give buyers incentive to buy cars now. They should analyzestory of the dealsCanadian women's hockey team celebrating their Olympic victory by skating onto the ice, drinking alcohol, and react in writing telling whether they think it's a good time to buy a car. As a fun follow-up activity, have students click here to visitsmoking cigars. These actions caused an uproar for a sitenumber of vintage newspaper ads. They should click on "Cars" and compare car ads from previous years toreasons including the car ads they see infact that one of the newspaper today. Here's a very old ad for "the most beautiful car inplayers was under the world."legal drinking age. Invite students to compare it to an ad in today's newspaper.
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3. Here is a great lesson to build vocabulary. Invite students to skimuse the news and to list words that summarize current events. Then, send them online to create a word cloud that summarizesarchive tool of the news. Click hereE-edition to usefind stories about the online word cloud tool. What's great about that site is that theyteam's celebration and its repercussions. Your students can usewrite essays reacting to the tool without creating an account or signing in.events.
Math
1. The first telephone book was publishedWorld Math Day is March 3. It is a day when students from around the world compete in New Haven, Connecticut on February 21, 1878. In honoran online environment in live games of the occasion, directmental arithmetic. Each game lasts for 60 seconds and students to look throughcan play as many as 500 games, earning points for every correct answer. The students who answer the advertisements for five phone numbers that have different area codes. (No 800 numbers please.) They should make a listmost questions show up in the Hall of the numbers from lessFame. This is an absolutely free event to more. Then they can research onlinetake part in. Invite your students to find mention throughout the locationsnews of each area code.
2. The students can use the Classified adsways in which math is relevant to furnish a new apartment with pre-owned items. That’s great for the environmentreal life. Then show them this rap and affordable, too. First, havechallenge them estimate the amount they’ll need to spend and then have them “go shopping”write a math rap based on the information they found in the ads. They should findnews.
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On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain became the best deal on home furnishings and appliances and total the amount they’d needonly NBA basketball player to spend onscore a one-bedroom apartment. Was their total more or less thanhundred points in a game. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors. In that game, they estimated? Whowere playing the New York Knicks in Hershey, PA. In honor of Wilt, have your class got the most bang for the buck?
3. Invite students to usereview the basketball statistics fromin today’s news. Have them compare the Olympic sports reporting to write three word problems for a partnernumber of points scored by individual players to solve.Wilt’s record.
Science
Do your students think it’s importantMarch is Expanding Girls’ Horizons in Science and Engineering Month. This international effort encourages girls to be scientifically literate? Ask them to workexplore careers in groups, with each group using a different section ofscience and technology. Have students check the newspaper,Help Wanted ads to find any articlejobs in those areas that relatesmight inspire girls and boys to science in some way. Ask each groupstudy science.
Introduce your students to summarize each story they find and to present their findings…Frances Gabe hated housework. She called it a “nerve twangling bore.” She had to do something, so, in 1984, she invented the class. This lesson will show studentsself-cleaning house. Each room of Gabe’s house has a 10-inch square “Cleaning/ Drying/Heating/Cooling” apparatus in the wide applicationmiddle of science and howthe ceiling. At the touch of a button, it is relevant to their everyday lives.
Some experts say that insprays a powerful blast of soapy water over the future people will be able to eatroom, then rinses and take vitamins and supplements thatblow-dries the entire area. The rooms’ floors are exactly matched tosloped slightly so the needs of their individual systems. Scientistsextra water runs off. The breakable stuff is protected under glass. The dishes are studying the way metabolism workscleaned, dried and kept in order to better understand how food affects the body. Once the understandinga cabinet, which is clearer, they will be able to advice people how to eat based onalso a personal profile. Share this information with studentsdishwasher; clothes are cleaned, dried and stored while hanging in a closet, which is also a combination washer-dryer. The sinks, tubs and toilets are self-cleaning and then ask them to skim the newspaperbookshelves dust themselves. Gabe continued to find other aspects of health that they would like to see scientists learn more about. They should write essays about their hopesperfect and live in her house for the future of science in their lives.
Ifmany years. Is there a chore you want studentsdon’t like? Can you find a creative way to learn more about the science behind the Olympics, they can see videos of the science behind the games created by NBC.solve that problem?
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Social Studies
1. NASCAR season runs from February – November. ExplainStudents can go to students that although the drivers garner the most attention, NASCAR is, at heart, a team sport. After all, it’s not just about a carthis site and a driver. No driver could succeed without the people who work on the car and keep ittype in tiptop shape. Whentheir birth year to see what happened that year. Here’s a driver comes in for a pit stop, the crew members who jump ingreat activity to helpuse with this site. Have students imagine that they are just as important as the driver when it comes to getting to Victory Lane. The crew must work perfectly together to get the car back on the track as quickly as possible. Tenths of a second can mean the difference between a win and a loss. If ever your students could see the importance of teamwork and working together cooperatively,for the pit crew will show that. Ask studentscompany that manages this site. Their assignment is to talk about some ofuse the attributes needed by members ofinformation in the pit crew. Then have them read the Help Wanted adsnewspaper to find other jobs that require similar attributes. Aswrite a follow-up activity, ask themchapter about what is happening now. If 20 years from now, someone were to think about which of their friends they would wantgo on their crew if they were forming a racing team? Andthis site and type in 2010, what would they want themselvessee, based on the team?
2. A fascinating story madetoday’s news? What’s big news this week. A school in Lower Merion, PA,politics, in movies and entertainment, in sports and in business?
March is being suedWomen’s History Month. Begin by students and parentsintroducing the work of the people at the first convention for allegedly spying on studentswomen’s rights, held in their homes via the webcamSeneca Falls, NY in 1848. At that meeting the laptop computer that“Declaration of Sentiments” was supplieddrafted and signed by 68 women and 32 men. Modeled on the school. Have students use the E-edition archive tool to find any articles that appeared in your newspaper about this event. They can search "Lower Merion" to find any stories. If this hasn't been covered in your local newspaper, click here for CNN coverageDeclaration of Independence, the event. This story is a good one to usedocument demanded equal rights for a class debate. Do yourwomen. Ask students to think about the school, if this story is accurate, violated students' rights? Didaudience for whom it was written. How do they violate the Constitutional right to privacy?think men of that time would react? What other stories in your local news address Constitutional issues? Have students skim the news to find any other stories about how the Constitution is still relevant today.
Here is a detailed video about the case, with an interview with the student behind the lawsuit.
3. To wrap up Black History Month, introducewomen? After reading it, have students write two newspaper editorials responding to writer Al Young. Born in 1939, Young grew up in the rural South and later in urban Detroit. He attended Universityargument of Michigan and then U.C. Berkeley. He has written novels, essays, memoirs and poems. In 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed him Poet Laureatethe Seneca Falls "Declaration of California. He occasionally writes about current events. Here isSentiments," one of his poems:
NOTES ON THE FUTURE OF LOVE
Friday, January 4th, 2008
Meanwhile over in yet another time zone,
somewhere between Iraqrejecting it and another place
hard hit, the most toxic of gumbos thickens.
Toother agreeing with it. Before they complete that assignment, have them read the poisoned Kool-Aid taste of homemade sin,
answers-in-progress stack but don’t add up.
With every putrid breath you take, hope dissolves
into streaming re-runs of hell and high water.
In Chinese,editorials in Czech,your newspaper to see how they are written.
A catastrophic earthquake happened in Arabic or Albanian,
in Japanese or German, does the SermonChile on Saturday. Have students check the Mount
still count? And does it say still: Thou shall not kill?
In your cozy time zone, sandwiched now somehow
between Iraq and another place hard hit,
where do you come downnews to see the latest update on the future of love?
Al Young
Copyright © 2006
(from Coastal Nightsevent and Inland Afternoons: Poems 2001-2006)
Readits aftermath. Have them compare the poemdisaster there to students and ask them to assess Young's opinion of war. Canthe disaster in Haiti. How are they find a news story that relatesalike? How are they different? Students can use the E-edition archive tool to this poem?find stories on both events.
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Lessons written by Deborah Drezon Carroll. Carroll taught for ten years in Philadelphia, PA and is the author of two parenting books and is currently working on a new one. (Check out her blog at http://raisingamazingdaughters.wordpress.com.) She also coordinated the Newspaper in Education department of the Philadelphia Inquirer for 16 years.

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FEBRUARY 22MARCH 1 - 26,5, 2010
Bobsledding
Maybe youʼve had a chance to ride a sled. You climb on a piece of wood or plastic, place yourself on a snow-covered hill, and
Women in History
Elizabeth Blackwell
Hospitals wouldn’t let gravity do the rest. Not too much sporty about that, right? The only exercise you get is the arm flailing you do after you jump the little ramp you didnʼt see at the bottom of the hill.
Some people take sledding very seriously. They guide expensive sleds make of fiberglass down ice-filled chutes at speeds of 80 or 90 miles an hour! These athletes are called bobsledders;Elizabeth Blackwell treat their sleds are called bobsleds. Meanwhile, other athletes ride open, one person sleds. When these athletes ride feet-first, lying on their backs, the sport is called luge. If they ride face-first, lying on their stomachs aspatients. Her fellow doctors often ignored her. Anonymous letter-writers harassed her. That’s what it was like for America’s first woman doctor in the picture below, the sport is called the skeleton — perhaps because thatʼs all that will be left if they hit the wall!
An1800s. The leading American Sport
Bobsledding got its startmedical schools turned down Blackwell in Albany, New York, when1844. Women weren’t supposed to study medicine, most people started racing sleds made of woodbelieved.
But Blackwell didn’t give up. She studied privately with doctors in the 1880s. The goal was speedSouth and the rides were dangerous. Riders steered these sleds with ropes tiedin Philadelphia. In 1847, she finally was admitted to the front runners; they stopped them by dragging garden rakes behind them.
Today, the sport is far more sophisticated. Teams often build their own sleds, and they can cost as much as $35,000. A single setGeneva Medical School of runners —Western New York. Even before her arrival, the metal rails along the bottom of the sled — can cost $5,000. The sports is still dangerous as a luger from the country of Georgiastudents were ridiculing her—the school administration thought her application was fatally injured during a practice run in atprank and let the Vancouver competition.
Sleds are designed to be as aerodynamic as possible. This means the sleds are shaped to push through the air easily so that wind resistancestudent body vote on it.
Blackwell graduated at high speeds won't slow them down. The rails must be thin and smooth, so the sled won't slow down due to friction with the ice.
The goalhead of a bobsled team isher class in 1849, but her troubles weren’t over. When she traveled to make itParis to continue advanced studies, the bottom of a specially constructed ice chute as quickly as possible. Bobsled teams can have two or four members. There are two positions for bobsledders:
• Drivers steer the sled as it travels down the chute. They must react quicklyFrench doctors would not allow her to changing conditions and choose the course that picks up the most speed.
• Pushers start the sled down the chute by pushing it as fast as they can over the ice and then jumping in. To prevent slipping, they wear special shoes with 500 tiny spikes at the bottom.
A fast start is essential. A time difference of as littlestudy as a tenth ofdoctor. While working in a second frequently determinesmaternity hospital there as a victory. A difference of a tenth of a second atstudent midwife, she contracted an infection that left her blind in one eye.
Blackwell was born in England, but came to the start of a run can resultUnited States with her family in 1832. Her father, a three-tenths of a second difference at the bottom. Note: If you want to see a fun movie about bobsledding, check out "Cool Runnings."
Biathlon
Biathlon is a unique competition, combining two very different sports — cross-country skiingliberal thinker who opposed slavery and target shooting —believed in women’s rights, was an important influence on her and her sister Emily, who also became a single event. In fact,doctor.
After her Paris studies, Blackwell returned to the very name "biathlon" comes from the Greek words "bi," meaning two,United States and "athlon," meaning competition.
Survival Sport
The origin of biathlon can be traced back three centuries to Scandinavian countries, where people in northern climates neededfounded the two disciplinesNew York Infirmary for survival. They traveled by skis intoWomen & Children with the wilderness where they hunted gamehelp of her sister and other supporters. The Blackwell sisters later opened a medical college for food.
The first known biathlon competition took placewomen in Norway in 1767, and the sport has grown in popularity ever since. The interesting thing about biathlon ishospital.
During the great difference between its two parts. Cross-country skiing requires fast-paced, difficult work. A cross-country skier's pulse may jump to 180 beats a minute, causing nerves to twitchCivil War, she and her sister helped select and musclestrain nurses to tremble. Skiers push through the snow using the edgetake care of their skis — a motion similar to that of ice skaters. Competitors atwounded Union soldiers. Afterward, Blackwell settled in England, where her work paved the sport's highest level may travel 20 kilometers (12 miles) by ski.
The Challenge
In the middle of their ski run, competitors must stop, calm themselves, and carefully aim a rifle at targets 50 meters away — about 160 feet. They shoot from two positions — prone and standing. Hitting a target at such a great distance is difficultway for a calm, rested shooter. Imagine what it must be likeEnglish women to aim a rifle with trembling handsbecome doctors. Blackwell believed in preventive medicine and heavy breathing after a long ski run. But then, the Norwegian hunter trying to feed his family 300 years ago wouldn't have had much time to rest, either.
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