This week, you are beginning your non-fiction adventures. This is the last piece of writing we will do for the year!!
The Task: Research a person or organisation that is working to deal with an issue or problem in their community. Present your findings as a research essay. You will work on this research essay in class and at home over the next few weeks, and submit the final copy to me in the English exam during exam week. (As soon as I know the date, I will tell you!) I will post an example of a research essay for you to look at when you begin the writing process.
Guidelines:
- You must post to this blog at least once a week. Each week, there will be a question to answer, or a task to complete. Your answer must be submitted as an online comment.
- Your comments must include links to any websites you have used for research.
- Week One (week beginning 11th May)
- Week Two (week beginning 18th May)
- Week Three (week beginning 25th May)
- Week Four (week beginning 1st June)
- Week Five (week beginning 8th June)
like can we do a research about lösev??
ReplyDeleteyou can post about whoever you want - as long as you can give plenty of information about the issue and how it was solved..
ReplyDeleteMs.Kemp,can we search about a disease?
ReplyDeleteYes, Ekin, that would be a good issue.
ReplyDeleteare we allowed to post more than one article a week
ReplyDeleteSwine flu is a really big issue in Mexico and countries that are near Mexico. Many people are dieing because of the disease. scientist have tried to create a medicine by examining a child who had overcame this disease.
ReplyDelete-Ceylin
Ceylin - Could you please post this again under 'First Task', and include a link to the website, or details about where you got this information from?
ReplyDeleteTswaragano - Sure. Good work!
ReplyDeleteMiss Kemp cab I change my topic ?
ReplyDeleteIt is so hard .
ı coudn 't found anything
Yes, Elif, of course you can change your topic if you need to. No problem!!
ReplyDeleteANIMAL SMUGGLING
ReplyDeleteAnimal smuggling is when people trade and sell live animals and/or animal parts. Animals smuggled can be rare animal like a white tiger or common caviar. Many types of people and even some zoos’ will sell animals to the black market for profit. Smuggling is all over the world.
Animal smuggling happens in many different ways. Some of the different ways are by in the mail, over the internet, by planes, by hiding them in cars or semis’.
Animal smuggling, especially exotic animal parts, are worth a lot of money. All the parts taken from a killed tiger are worth up to 25,000 USD! People even try to smuggle rare bird eggs through airports by making a necklace out of the bird eggs!
Countries are trying to stop animal smuggling in different ways. Some of the ways are having agents go undercover to catch smugglers. They have border guards and airport guards, but they do not have enough undercover agents or guards.
I would try to solve Animal smuggling by hiring more agents and guards to try to stop animal smuggling. More agents would be able to work undercover so they could try to catch more smugglers. More guards would be able to check more bags, cars and trucks at country borders. I would give the smugglers a longer jail sentence and a high fine. The jail term could be 10 years and the fine could be 300 thousand USD. If any buyers of smuggled animal parts or live animals would be fined or arrested but not as high or long as the smugglers sentence.
Swine Flu Outbreak
ReplyDeleteIn April 2009, scientists found a virus which is called the swine flu in the media. The source of the outbreak in humans is still unknown. It was first started in USA, but then the virus went to even Mexico. Some organizations found that this flu would become a worldwide flu pandemic (the virus would be in the whole world).
Virologists have noted that the swine flu is less fatal and dangerous than the other health problems and the other pandemics, but the virus could mutate and become a more dangerous flu outbreak in the future.
Duygu İder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak
Hi Ms. Kemp,
ReplyDeleteI just want to make sure that it is ok to use wikipedia as a resource since it was used as a source for the Swine Flu Outbreak article.
I thought you said in class that it was not allowed.
Berkin
In Macquarie island an island halfway between Australia and Antartica things started going wrong soon it was discvered in 1810 .
ReplyDeleteIslands fur seals,elephant,seals and penguins were killed for fur and blubber ,then the rats annd mice that jumpe of the sealing ship was a problem .Cats were being used to deal with it .
Cats and sailors were feasted on rabbits .Feine numbes quickly grew .Then the island lost two types of birds the rail and parakeet . Meanwhile rabbits breded fast and because of it the islands plants were being eaten away .
At 1970s ,130,000 rabbits caused a lot of damage that disease myxomathosis started. The disease took the rabit population down .After it the vegetation begen recovering . But hen there were few rbbits cats started eating more birds so thy decided to shoot them and the last one was killed at 200.The disease failed to keep numbers f rabbits down . Rabbit population increased alot.So the plants were being eaten more .
Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Servie has plans to kill all the rabbits in the island along with some rats and mice. But this could make another unexpected effect .
Bergstrom says:'This is e largest island on which this type of eradicaton programme will have been attemped.'
Biliography:
www.globalschoolnet.org
http://wwf.org.au
The Guadian Weekly 23.01.09
Hilal Eda Arpacı
THE ARTIC MELTING
ReplyDeleteThe artic is melting due to pollution because pollution is destroying the atmosphere and more sun rays are coming through the atmosphere and melting the artic.This is causing polar bears and some seals to diee out.Scientists determine that the ice is melting so fast that it will all be gone by the end of the century!Also the melted ice would mix into the ocean and will raise the water level about 7 meters. The artic started melting 30 years ago.
Mr.Ozsoylu
LINKS USED:
-Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099
-10 Acres of Melting = Global Warming | Climate Skeptic
Hi Berkin,
ReplyDeleteThank you for checking with me :).
I would prefer if you did not use wikipedia as a resource. There are a lot of better places to get your information from.
You could try looking at news articles on www.bbc.co.uk, or other news websites. They will give you up-to-date information on swine flu, and how people are dealing with it around the world.
See you at school!
STOPPING THE ARTIC FROM MELTING
ReplyDeleteThe Arctic Council (the governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the U.S.)is working on away to stop the artic from melting, but the only real way we can solve this is by stopping pollution.The Artic Council is trying to stop it by adopting ''effective measures" to combat climate change.
Mr.Ozsoylu
SITES I USED:
-Arctic Melting Fast; May Swamp U.S. Coasts by 2099
wallace peterson(ferit kutay)
ReplyDeleteMy issue is Bioterrorizm.The meaning of bioterrorizm is making terror with bio weapons.İt has been seesn in Turkey last year.PKK threw ticks of a plane to infect poeple.
Note:Miss Kemp dont tell my cover to anybody.I am Wallace peterson.
ORGANİZATİONS against bioterrorizm
ReplyDeleteCDC controlling disease centers.
wallace peterson
TASK I
ReplyDeleteMy issue is the extinction of polar bears.
Unless the pace of global warming slows or stops, polar bears could disappear within a century. Global warming effects the extinction of the polar bears by the tempareture, making glaciers melt.
TASK II
ReplyDeleteWWF (World Wildlife Fund)is dealing with the issue.
Task 2
ReplyDeleteSWINE FLU HITS TURKEY AND INDIA
BBC news website does not say who is dealing with this problem so i am not sure. But i would solve this problem by putting them in the emergency part of the hospital until the cure of this awful virus (swine flu) and that is what whoever solved this problem did!
or
I would send them back where they came from
or
I would kill them which i know is a bad idea but probably i would do that
bbcnews.com
Miss. Kemp i don't know if this is ok? If it is not can you please tell me at school?
Deniz Atalar your favorite student =P
my issue is a cure should be found for of swine flu.as swine flu keeps on spreading the more people are dieing.scientists at mexico and all around the world are working on this issue briefly but unfortunately an efficient cure still has'nt been found.
ReplyDeleteMs.Kemp when is the last day to post task 3
ReplyDeleteMystery Person
Dear Mysterioso,
ReplyDeleteYour blog post needs to be published on the day of your first English lesson for the week.
So, for example, if you were in my Tuesday/Thursday/Friday class, you would need to have posted by Tuesday. Or if you're in my Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday class, you'd need to post TODAY!!
:),
Miss K.
there are many group of biology scientists that are trying to deal with swine flu ,also there some universities like biology professor's of ucla that are trying to slow or halt swine flu.
ReplyDeletems.Kemp ı understood what we need to do in task 3 but ı didn't get how we find a related article like how can ı find one???
ReplyDeleteHi Deniz - good question!
ReplyDeleteSometimes articles have links in them to 'related articles', so you could use those. (Often, you can find links at the bottom of a wikipedia article to articles/sites written by experts.) Or the news sites I've given you have 'search' facilities, and you can type in keywords to find articles.
I always start with google :).
tnx alot xD
ReplyDeleteMs.Kemp , can ı send my essay to tasmanıan natıonal parks assocıatıon because ı want to protest the eradıcatıon of rodents on the ısland .
ReplyDeleteeda
Ms.Kemp ı am having a hard time trying to find scientists that support my mainarguments . Can some of my paragraphs not be supported by scıence ?
ReplyDeleteeda
Hi Eda - good on you for trying so hard! Try to include at least 2 facts to support your thesis. Don't worry too much - when I read your draft at school on Friday, I thought it was pretty good :). You will do just fine.
ReplyDeleteHi again, Eda - what a great idea! Yes, you should definitely send it to them. Let me know if you need help to find their email address.
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