Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Social Studies Homework for Thursday (October 14th)

Learning about history is important, but it is just as important for us to know about things that are happening in our world, today.

A very special and amazing story about people who survived something awful is happening right now. Tonight, I want you to learn about it. We'll keep talking about the Middle Ages tomorrow (including Marco Polo!), but right now, today, it is more important for you to learn about this.

I would like you to read all the news you can find and watch all the news you can find on TV about the Chile Mine Rescue. To help you, I've included a video from YouTube. It is okay if you read about it in Spanish--after all, Chileans speak Spanish, you speak Spanish, and this happened in South America. You should understand this in your own language... but then I want you to write a journal entry in your social studies notebook.

Journal: 15 sentences
1. What do you think it would be like to be trapped inside the mine? How do you think the miners felt?
2. How do you think the miner's families felt?
3. How do you think the miners felt as they started to be rescued?
4. If you were one of the miners rescued today, what would you want to do first?

Here's a video to get you started:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

miss melody...

for the journal we need to do 15 sentences for each question or 15 sentances for all the queation

please answer

Miss Melody said...

15 sentences TOTAL.

Anonymous said...

miss melody....

we can do the homework in the computer and print it

Anonymous said...

miss melody we can do it in the computer?

Miss Melody said...

I would prefer it if you write it in your notebook.