1) Announcements
a) The new schedule as of Oct. 2nd will be from 8.00 to 12.30.
b) Cans Campaign. During the months of September and October, collect all the cans you can and bring them to participate in the sculpture competition!!! We'll continue to celebrate our 10th anniversary in CIDEB Extension. Competition Day: Staurday October 23rd, 2010.
c) For the absent-minded students who are still missing Oral Presentations: learn to read, listen, and follow instructions! Should I put it on bold or CAPITAL LETTERS?
This will be your last chance and I mean it!!!!
2) Homework
1. To make a 1 1/2 page essay about any of the following topics:
a) If you could set the ethics and standards for a "fair journalism", what would you consider to regulate the media?
b) If you were a war journalist and had to make a choice between reporting a story or lending "a helping hand", what would you decide? What's ethically what you're supposed to do? Should journalists be involved in events or refuse to help because it's not their job?
c) Suppose you were a reporter in Haiti and you decide to "cross the line" involving in the story to help the injured and sick. In your report, you'll be certainly including the fact that you're trying to help to treat a patient in your story. But people will argue that you're exploiting the sick and injured. Are these crtics well-founded or they ignore the common sense of kindness? What's fair and what's not? Explain your reasoning.
2. Quiz #5. Please study the vocabulary from Today's News.
4) Additional references
Auxiliary Verbs. From English to Spanish: Learning the Difference between a full and auxiliary verb according to its tense.
The Butterfly Circus p. 2
