Share your world news draft: Exchange your writing 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: World News 1991.
Next, we are going to explore Taiwan News in 1991. The teacher will give you copies of old newspapers from China Post. We will look at the news together. There is a lot of information in the newspapers, some of which is about Taiwan. You can use that as your materials. If you want to do more research, you can use the computer in class. Always remember to keep a record of the websites that interest you most for later use.
If there’s time left, you are free to go to IEARN Youth Forum to check the messeges. If not, remember to visit it in your free time.
Week 3 Assignment 1: Work on your draft of Taiwan 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 3 Assignment 2: Visit IEARN Youth Forum to post your writing of world news 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 )
December 18, 2006 at 1:50 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 )