Discuss the reading assignment How to be a good reporter.
You will be given Worksheet 4: How to be a good reporter, which requires you to finish the following activities: (I’ll collect the worksheet when you are finished.)
(1) Visit Pearl World Youth NewsReporter Certification Course-2. (2) Find the enrollment key icon and log in as a guest.
(3) Type in Enrollment key: pearl.
(4) Press “Enroll me in this course.”
(5) Finish the questions on the worksheet.
Share your family story: Exchange your story with a partner. Edit your partner’s story. You can ask the teacher for help when editing the story. After peer editing, revise your story on the computer. And then post it on the course blog under the topic The Year I was Born: The story in my family.
Next, we are going to investigate the world events in the year you were born. Please download Worksheet 5: The Year I was born (World News). It is draft sheet that can help you to organize your writing. Here is a file (Searching for World News in 1991 online) that provides you with many online resources for you the do your research. Please take some time to look for the news that interests you the most and start to draft your report. Here you can read the sample writing composed by Ivan, that took part in this project previously.
Week 2 Assignment 1: Work on your draft of World News. Please bring the paper with you when we meet next time for peer editing. Also prepare a digital copy for revision on the computer.
Week 2 Assignment 2: Visit IEARN Youth Forum and post your family story in the forum.
（Amy Tang）
Hi, I’m Amy. I’m 16 years old. I was born in 1990. Do you know what happened in 1990? Well, I searched for the history about 1990. And I found an interesting one. Here it is
Hubble Space Telescope launched (April 25).
(http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0005272.html ).
And I checked up the site INFOPLEASE (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193553.html ) for some information about the Hubble Space Telescope. I found that it was lifted into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990. It’s very expensive, heavy, huge and very useful. It cost two billion dollars, weighing approximately 25,500 lb (11,000 kg) and it’s as huge as a large tractor-trailer truck. The telescope took many pictures of the outer space, which helped the scientists with their research. The farthest objects Hubble has seen are galaxies well over 12 billion light years away. This distant observation has been named the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, or HUDF. But Hubble is slated to be decommissioned in 2010 and replaced by the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2011. It’s going to be retired.
It completes one orbit around the Earth (crossing over the same longitude line) every 97 minutes. Its speed is approximately 8 km per second (5 miles per second). Pretty fast,
right? If you want to know more about the Hubble Space Telescope, you can check up the site: NASA THE HUBBLE SPACE
TELESCOPE. (http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php )
Hello, everyone. My name is Alice Hu. I’m a 16 year-old student of Li Shan senior high school. In the year I was born, 1991, a lot of things happened all over the world. Just like the thing I would like to investigate—Iraq-Kuwait war.
1.Why Iraq attack Kuwait?
For nearly two years after the UN-brokered cease-fire in the Persian Gulf, the governments of Iraq and Iran failed to initiate conversations toward a permanent peace treaty. Suddenly, in July 1990, the foreign ministers of the two states met in Geneva full of optimism about the prospects for peace. Why Saddam Hussein now seemed willing to liquidate his decade-long conflict with Iran and even give back the remaining land occupied at such cost by his armies began to become clear two weeks later, when he stunned the Arab world with a vitriolic speech in which he accused his small neighbour Kuwait of siphoning off crude oil from the Ar-Rumaylah oil fields straddling their border. The Iraq foreign minister insisted that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the gulf emirates make partial compensation for these alleged “crimes” by cancelling $30,000,000,000 of Iraq’s foreign debt; meanwhile, 100,000 of Iraq’s best troops concentrated on the Kuwaiti border. August2, Iraq ordered his army to occupy Kuwait.
2.US UK and France Ally intervening
King Fahd requested American military protection for his country. President Bush at once declared Operation Desert Shield and deployed the first of 200,000 American troops to the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia, augmented by British, French, and Saudi units and backed by naval and air forces. But the stated purpose was not to liberate Kuwait but to deter Iraq from attacking Saudi Arabia and seizing control of one-third of the world’s oil reserves. In President Bush’s words, the Allies had drawn a line in the sand.
On August 8 Hussein formally annexed Kuwait, referring to it as Iraq’s “19th province,” an act the UN Security Council immediately condemned. Egypt offered to contribute troops to the Allied coalition, followed by 12 of the Arab League’s member states. Hussein responded by condemning those states as traitorous and proclaiming a jihad, or holy war, against the coalition–despite the fact that he and his government had never upheld the Muslim cause in the past. Hussein detained as hostages all foreigners caught in Kuwait and Iraq and moved to conclude permanent peace with Iran, thereby freeing his half-million-man army for battle. In a ground war that lasts just 100, the US easily defeat the Iraq army in Kuwait.
December 18, 2006 at 1:51 pm
（Amy Tang）
Hi, I’m Amy. I’m 16 years old. I was born in 1990. Do you know what happened in 1990? Well, I searched for the history about 1990. And I found an interesting one. Here it is
Hubble Space Telescope launched (April 25).
(http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0005272.html ).
And I checked up the site INFOPLEASE (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0193553.html ) for some information about the Hubble Space Telescope. I found that it was lifted into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990. It’s very expensive, heavy, huge and very useful. It cost two billion dollars, weighing approximately 25,500 lb (11,000 kg) and it’s as huge as a large tractor-trailer truck. The telescope took many pictures of the outer space, which helped the scientists with their research. The farthest objects Hubble has seen are galaxies well over 12 billion light years away. This distant observation has been named the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, or HUDF. But Hubble is slated to be decommissioned in 2010 and replaced by the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2011. It’s going to be retired.
It completes one orbit around the Earth (crossing over the same longitude line) every 97 minutes. Its speed is approximately 8 km per second (5 miles per second). Pretty fast,
right? If you want to know more about the Hubble Space Telescope, you can check up the site: NASA THE HUBBLE SPACE
TELESCOPE. (http://hubble.nasa.gov/index.php )
December 18, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Hello, everyone. My name is Alice Hu. I’m a 16 year-old student of Li Shan senior high school. In the year I was born, 1991, a lot of things happened all over the world. Just like the thing I would like to investigate—Iraq-Kuwait war.
1.Why Iraq attack Kuwait?
For nearly two years after the UN-brokered cease-fire in the Persian Gulf, the governments of Iraq and Iran failed to initiate conversations toward a permanent peace treaty. Suddenly, in July 1990, the foreign ministers of the two states met in Geneva full of optimism about the prospects for peace. Why Saddam Hussein now seemed willing to liquidate his decade-long conflict with Iran and even give back the remaining land occupied at such cost by his armies began to become clear two weeks later, when he stunned the Arab world with a vitriolic speech in which he accused his small neighbour Kuwait of siphoning off crude oil from the Ar-Rumaylah oil fields straddling their border. The Iraq foreign minister insisted that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the gulf emirates make partial compensation for these alleged “crimes” by cancelling $30,000,000,000 of Iraq’s foreign debt; meanwhile, 100,000 of Iraq’s best troops concentrated on the Kuwaiti border. August2, Iraq ordered his army to occupy Kuwait.
2.US UK and France Ally intervening
King Fahd requested American military protection for his country. President Bush at once declared Operation Desert Shield and deployed the first of 200,000 American troops to the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia, augmented by British, French, and Saudi units and backed by naval and air forces. But the stated purpose was not to liberate Kuwait but to deter Iraq from attacking Saudi Arabia and seizing control of one-third of the world’s oil reserves. In President Bush’s words, the Allies had drawn a line in the sand.
On August 8 Hussein formally annexed Kuwait, referring to it as Iraq’s “19th province,” an act the UN Security Council immediately condemned. Egypt offered to contribute troops to the Allied coalition, followed by 12 of the Arab League’s member states. Hussein responded by condemning those states as traitorous and proclaiming a jihad, or holy war, against the coalition–despite the fact that he and his government had never upheld the Muslim cause in the past. Hussein detained as hostages all foreigners caught in Kuwait and Iraq and moved to conclude permanent peace with Iran, thereby freeing his half-million-man army for battle. In a ground war that lasts just 100, the US easily defeat the Iraq army in Kuwait.