News Journals: Your Voice on What’s Happening In Our World Today

1. News Journals: Your Voice on What’s Happening In Our World Today

2. What Is a CURRENT EVENT? • Present-time news events concerning important people, places, things, and ideas. These events are reported in newspapers, on television, and on the internet.

3. What is a News Journal? • You choose an article from a NEWS SOURCE • You write a summary and a opinion paragraph about the event or idea in the article • You have the opportunity to share your article with the class on the Friday due date

4. Where do I Put My News Journal • Composition Notebook (not your Portfolio!!) • Hard Copy news article and two paragraphs • You may hand write or type your entry, but the typed paper must be stapled into your journal.

5. Where Do I Find an Article? • Newspapers • News Magazines • News Websites

6. What Sources Are NOT Acceptable?

7. Where Can I Get a Good Source?? • Our Classroom! • Grocery or Convenience Store • Online

8. How Long Should My Article Be? • You need to write two paragraphs about the article you choose. Be sure your article has enough information in it to write about! • Pictures are great, but make sure the pictures aren’t the bulk of the article! • How long do you think a good article should be? AT LEAST 3 PARAGRAPHS!!

9. I’ve found an article, how do I know it’s a good one? • RADCAB • Always ask yourself…Is this an appropriate article to share with my classmates?

10. Is This a Good Article? New stem cell method makes functioning liver cells • By Kate Kelland • Posted 2011/10/12 at 3:57 pm EDT LONDON, Oct. 12, 2011 (Reuters) — British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants. A team of researchers led by the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge used cutting-edge methods to correct a genetic mutation in stem cells derived from a patient's skin biopsy, and then grew them into fresh liver cells. "We have developed new systems to target genes and ... correct ... defects in patient cells," said Allan Bradley, director of the Sanger Institute. At a briefing about the work, Bradley said the technique -- the first success of its kind -- leaves behind no trace of the genetic manipulation, except for the gene correction. "These are early steps, but if this technology can be taken into treatment, it will offer great possible benefits for patients," he added. Stem cells are the body's master cells, the source for all other cells. Scientists say they could transform medicine, providing treatments for blindness, spinal cord and other severe injuries, and new cells for damaged organs. CORRECTING MUTATION In Wednesday's study, published in the journal Nature, the British team took skin cells from a patient with a mutation in a gene called alpha1-antitrypsin, which is responsible for making a protein that protects against inflammation. People with mutant alpha1-antitrypsin are not able to release the protein properly from the liver, so it becomes trapped there and eventually leads to liver cirrhosis and lung emphysema. This is one of the most common inherited liver and lung disorders and affects about one in 2,000 people of North European origin, the researchers said. Having harvested the skin cells, the scientists reprogrammed them back into stem cells and then used a type of "molecular scissor" technique known as a zinc finger nuclease to snip the cells' genome at precisely the right place and insert a correct version of the gene using a DNA transporter called piggyBac. The leftover piggyBac sequences were then removed from the cells, cleaning them up and allowing them to be converted into liver cells without any trace of residual DNA damage.

11. How About This One? In the Wake of Irene East Coast residents survey the damage and begin cleaning up AUGUST 29, 2011 By Joe Levit East Coast residents braced for the worst from Hurricane Irene. They boarded up windows and left seaside communities. The storm swept across the area on Saturday and Sunday. While Irene did not end up being as dangerous as folks worried it might be, the immense storm still caused significant damage. It uprooted trees, toppled power lines, smashed homes and contributed to extreme flooding from New Jersey to Vermont. Irene was the first hurricane to make landfall in the continental United States since 2008. It came almost exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005. At one point before it hit the U.S., Irene was a major hurricane, with winds exceeding speeds of 110 miles per hour. When Irene made landfall on Saturday morning over North Carolina, it had become a Category 1 hurricane, with wind speeds of 75-95 miles per hour. By Sunday, Irene was reduced to a tropical storm near New York. By the time it reached Canada, it had lost the characteristics of a tropical storm entirely and had slowed to 50 miles per hour. Despite the weakening of the storm, Irene left a path of destruction. At least 35 people died. The hurricane dumped six inches to a foot of rain in many places. In one North Carolina neighborhood, flooding destroyed at least two dozen homes. Further up the coast, along the shore of Long Island Sound in East Haven, Connecticut, another 20 homes were destroyed by Irene's pounding surf, which reduced to rubble some homes. The storm system knocked out power for some 4.5 million people along the eastern seaboard. Irene also forced airlines to cancel about 9,000 flights, leaving many travelers stranded. Total damages from the storm were estimated to be up to $7 billion. “This is not over,” said President Barack Obama. “The impact of this storm will be felt for some time.

12. What Information Do I Need to Get From My Article? • Title • Date • Author • Source • These are almost always found at the very start of your article! • THESE FOUR THINGS NEED TO BE WRITTEN FOR EACH NEWS JOURNAL ENTRY!

13. What is important to share about my article? • Paragraph One: • WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, HOW • Paragraph Two: • Why did I choose this article? • Why is it important?

14. REMEMBER!!! • You MUST include a hard copy of your article with each entry!

15. Miss Ferraiolo’s Sample • Title: Bhutan Throws The Most Colorful Royal Wedding Of The Year • Date: 10-15-11 • Author: Reuters • Source: Yahoo News.com The tiny Asian nation of Bhutan held a large celebration this week in honnor of the marrige of their king. King Jehing married his new Queen Jetsun in a traditional Bhudist ceremony in front of thousands of well wishing citizens. This was the first royal wedding that the nation has had in many years and the first to have been shown on television. The bride and groom wore colorful robes and celebrated with many of their subjects following the ceremony. I chose to write about this article because I did not know much about the country of Bhutan before reading this story. It is very interesting to see how the bride and groom were dressed. It was also interesting to see how the king and queen included the people in their celebration, something that is not common for royal families to do. This is an important story to know about because the more we know about other countries, the better geography students we will be. It is also important to understand how different cultures celebrate weddings because culture is part of geography!

16. My Hard Copy Bhutan Throws The Most Colorful Royal Wedding Of The Year They might not have gotten married with two billion people watching, but King Jigme of Bhutan and newly crowned Queen Jetsun could have easily given this year’s other royal weddings a serious run for their money. • Reutersreports that 31-year-old King Jigme, known in Bhutan as the Dragon King, married 21-year-old college student Jetsun Pema Thursday in a lavish, hours-long ceremony that was more colorful than any wedding we’ve ever seen. Both wore traditional robes made of differently patterned fabrics. King Jigme’s robe was covered in pink and red embroidered roses, and QUeen Jetsun left the ceremony wearing a crown covered in silk. Their wedding was broadcast live to the nation’s 700,000 residents, but several thousand chose to stand outside the monastic fortress in the Himalayas where the ceremony took place. Afterward, the king and queen went outside to shake hands with their well wishers, a gesture Reuters describes as “unheard from previous monarchs.” It’s sort of the beginning of a new era for Bhutan — King Jigme’s father abdicated the throne in 2006 to allow for parliamentary elections. Today, the country’s monarchy acts as a stabilizing force for its fledgling democracy. Will the coutry fare any better now that it has a king and a queen to back it up? We certainly hope it will.

17. News Journal Glossary • Author: The person or news group that wrote the story; this could include Reuters and the Associated Press • Reuters: International news group that delivers current stories to papers around the world • Associated Press: A group of reporters that gathers and delivers news stories to papers around the country • Source: The publication that an article is taken from (example: The New York Times, The Hartford Courant)