Q2, Week 5 - Critical Reading Passage

1. Is it dangerous to use a cell phone while driving?
- If you know how to talk and drive no. It is against the law to do that though. I could talk and drive it isnt that hard.
2. Should cell phones be banned completely while driving or are they safe to use with hand-free devices?
- No they shouldnt. What if the person that called you has an emergancy and they cant tell you so you wouldnt even know.

Week 5 Grades

Algebra-69%, Home room-66%, L.A-79%. I aint happy about my grades and Ima try to make up as much work as I could to improve my grade. I have 9 missing assignment right.

Week 4 Critical Reading Passage

1) Do you think social networking sites have made a positive or negative impact on your life and our society? - The internet made life easier but also it can be bad because the way people use the internet.
2) How have social networking sites changed the structure of social relationships?
- Many people use the internet to look for people to date and go on online dating sites.
3) As of 2011, it is legal for colleges and businesses to view the social networking profiles of applicants. Do you think that is a violation of their privacy?
- I dont think it is a violation of private property.

1. Impact- the force with which one object hits another
2. Percieve- to notice something, especially something that escapes the notice of others
3. Structure- the way in which the different parts of something link or work together, or the fact of being linked together

Week 4 Grades

       Algebra is 53 percent, English is 80 percent, Homeroom is 65 percent. I am  not happy with my grades and I am going to improve them. I am going to do the make up work to improve my grades. I am going to have no missing assessments after today but I have 6 missing right now.

Q2, Week 4 Critical Reading Passage - Should Human Cloning Be Allowed?

I dont think that they should start cloning people. If they start to clone people then the population would get bigger. Also they would take up many jobs and they would do crimes and if they look like us then we would get locked up for their crime. I personally wouldnt want a clone for myself. The clones would be dumber.

Q2, Week 4 Vocabulary Definitions & Cloze context, equate, evaluate.

Cloning became a hot topic when Dolly the Sheep was cloned from an identical sheep in 1997. Cloning basically 1) __________ to creating a genetic twin. There is no evidence that human cloning has occurred yet, but it is believed that scientists have the ability to do so. Most countries have 2) __________ the pros and cons of human cloning and limited or outlawed it. If you look at this in a different 3) __________, there are human clones among us right now. They are identical twins, created naturally, not in a lab.

Supporters of human cloning say that it could help couples who are struggling with conceiving a baby. More importantly, many people say that human cloning could be used to save lives by cloning a diseased liver or heart or to replace a body part like an arm. In this 4) __________, human cloning may not be such a bad thing.

Opponents of human cloning say that people are “playing God” and they
5) __________ that with going against many people’s religious beliefs. Some people fear that scientists could create “superhumans” that would be bred as super-soldiers or super-athletes which would make it impossible for non-cloned humans to compete with them.

1.) equate
2.)evaluate
3.)context
4.)context
5.)equate

Equate: to regard, treat, or represent as equivalent

Evaluate: to determine or set the valueor amount of; appraise

context: the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect

Q2, Week 3 - T-Chart & Paragraph

-It intertains people, takes time, have group family time together

I think that kids could play violant video games if they want. The results interpret that only very little people think that violant games turn kids violant. It is one way that kids use there time instead of doing bad stuff and being on the streets. I play violant video and I anit a bad kid. That is just what a certain percent of people say about those games because they havent been involvedin those games when they were little. I am done stating my opinioun.

Violant Video Games interpret, percent, and involve

Ninety-seven 1) __________ of twelve to seventeen year olds in the U.S. played video games in 2008, thus fueling an $11.7 billion domestic video game industry. In 2008, ten of the top twenty best-selling video games in the U.S. 2) __________ violence.Violent video games have been blamed for school shootings, increases in the 3) __________ of students being bullied, and violence towards women. Critics say that these games make players less sensitive to real-life violence, reward players for simulating violence, and that children 4) __________ them to mean violence is an acceptable way to resolve conflicts.Video game advocates 5) __________ the research on this topic as deeply flawed and say that there is no relationship between video games and social violence. They argue that violent video games may reduce violence by serving as a substitute for rough and tumble play and by providing a safe outlet for aggressive and angry feelings.

1.) percent
2.) intepret
3.) percent
4.) interpret
5.) interpret