Spring Break Viewing/Reading

China's Ghost Cities
Video
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601007/n/China-s-Ghost-Cities
Transcript (reading) of the video
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/transcript/id/601007/n/China-s-Ghost-Cities

VOA News from Japan

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/

Sat. News from Japan (on VOA)

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/Japans-PM-Urges-Evacuation-Near-Nuclear-Plant-117850648.html

Japan's Tsunami on VOA

Read and listen to the news from Japan:

http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/world/Quake-Tsunami-Add-to-Economic-Worries-for-Japan---117830848.html

Japan's New Push for English Lessons in Elementary School

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/08/japan-launches-primary-english-push

This is not ESL English, so you can choose whether you want to read it for your Reading Log. You can try it and then switch to another reading if this one is too difficult.

Homework for Thursday, March 10

Write draft three of the definition paragraph.
Put your three drafts in a folder. You do not have to include the peer review.

Please do not include the older work, like the holiday paragraphs.

I will grade this final draft. I will also subtract points if you do not follow the format requirements on p. 3 of my syllabus.

Baseball in Hanoi

For your Reading Log reading:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704171004576149231828928092.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLE_Video_second

For your Reading Log?

You can read about one of your classmates' relative who left Vietnam on a boat:

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2010/09/for_vietnamese_refugee_casey_h.html