NOVEMBER
2004 KEY NEWSPAPER
Activity
#1: Read the article entitled “Steps
You Can Take to Avoid Catching the Flu”.
Before answering go to www.rlrouse.com/flu.html and read
for additional information.
1.
Why do you
think a person should cover their mouth when they cough or sneeze?
2.
Why do you
think all used tissue should go into the wastebasket?
3.
Why do you
think a child’s toys should be washed if they are sick?
4.
If I wanted
to make a virus-killing solution and all I had to measure was a coffee cup, how
much bleach and water should I use?
5.
If I wanted
to make a virus-killing solution and I used a ½ cup measuring cup how
many cups total liquid would I have once I mixed the bleach and water?
Activity #2:
Read the article entitled “Flu Vaccine Shortage Causes
Problems”.
1.
How do you feel about paragraph 3? Do you think the British government was right?
2.
Go to www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock. How many million Americans will flu
shots not be available to?
3.
What are some flu symptoms?
4.
Why do you think the federal government has recommended only
certain people get the vaccine?
5.
Why do you think the federal government chose the groups of
people they did to recommend they get flu shots?
Activity #3: Read
the article entitled “Remember it’s Not the Cost, but the Thought
that Counts”
1.
What is a synonym for the word frugal?
2.
Why would making a gift list in advance be helpful?
3.
Why should you carry the list with you?
4.
Why is buying lightweight items that you intend to mail a good
idea?
5.
Why should you mail gifts early?
6.
Why should you watch the scanner at the store when shopping?
7.
If a person set up a Holiday gift fund in January and put in
$45.00 a month, how much money would that person have by the end of December?
8.
What type of homemade gifts do you think would be nice to
receive and/or give?
Activity #4: Read
the article entitled “Pumpkin Pie is America’s Favorite
Thanksgiving
Dessert”.
1.
What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?
2.
If time and cooking ability were not a factor, what would be
on your “dream” Thanksgiving menu?
3.
If a cook wanted to make two pumpkin pies, how much sugar
would need to be used?
4.
How much sugar would be needed for three pies?
5.
If three pies were to be made, how many ounces of Pure Pumpkin
would be used?
Activity #5:
Read the article entitled “Red Sox Win World Series to End
“Curse”.
Fact/Opinion Write F if the statement is a fact or
write O if the statement is an opinion.
_____1. The Boston Red Sox won the World
Series.
_____2. It has been 86 years since the
Red Sox won the World Series.
_____3. There is a curse on the Boston
Red Sox.
_____4. Babe Ruth was a pitcher for the
Boston Red Sox.
_____5. Babe Ruth was traded to the New
York Yankees because he was a bad pitcher.
_____6. Babe Ruth’s trade caused
the Red Sox to be cursed.
_____7. Manny Ramirez thought this might
be a special season before it began.
_____8. Boston finished in second place
in the American League East.
_____9. New York beat Boston by 11 points
in the third game of the World Series.
_____10. The Red Sox made winning the
World Series look easy.
Activity #6:
Read the article entitled “Going Wireless”.
1.
How
would/do you use your cell phone?
2.
When
would/do you make most of your calls?
3.
Where
would/do you make most calls?
4.
Where
would/do you receive most calls?
5.
How much
would/does your monthly budget allow for a cell phone?
6.
Go to www.dogpile.com and look up a web site that
advises the consumer or compares wireless plans; take your answers to questions
1-5 and see what plan might be the best for your needs. Try to choose a site that is run by an
independent source.
Activity
#7: Read the article entitled “What
Can We Expect From Bush during His Second
Term?” For questions 9 & 10 refer to www.supremecourts.gov
1.
What three
domestic issues does Bush want to change?
2.
What are
domestic issues?
3.
Who funds
Social Security?
4.
Who does
Social Security help?
5.
How does
Social Security work?
6.
How does
President Bush want to change Social Security?
7.
What do
critics to the Social Security change say?
8.
What is
your opinion on President’s possible change to Social Security?
9.
What are
the names of the member of the U. S. Supreme Court?
10.
Which of
the court justices is originally from the Milwaukee area and what is the
history of that judge?
Activity
#8: Read the article entitled
“Feingold and Moore Win in November 2 General
Elections.
1.
How long is
a United States Senator’s term?
2.
When will
Senator Feingold’s third term be over?
3.
Why do you
think Feingold won by a larger margin this election than his first two
elections?
4.
Why do you
think such a high percent of eligible voters voted this year?
5.
What is
Gwen Moore’s position on the war? Explain your answer.
6.
How long of
a term does a United States Congressman serve?
7.
How many
terms did Kleczka serve?
8.
How many
Congressmen does Wisconsin have?
9.
How many
Senators serve in the Wisconsin State Senate?
10.
How many
Assemblymen serve in the Wisconsin State Assembly?
November 2004 Key
Activity
#1: 1) answers will
vary; 2) answers will vary; 3) answers will vary; 4) one coffee cup bleach and
10 coffee cups water; 5) 5 1/2 cups liquid.
Activity
#2: 1) answers will vary; 2) 236,000,000; 3)
fever, chills, dry cough, and stuffy or runny nose: 4) answers will vary; 5)
answers will vary;
Activity
#3: 1) economical, saving, thrifty,
unwasteful, ect.; 2) answers will vary; 3) answers will vary; 4) answers will
vary; 5) answers will vary; 6) answers will vary; 7) $540.00; 8) answers will
vary;
Activity
#4: 1) answers will vary; 2) answers will
vary; 3) 1 ½ cups; 4) 2 ¼ cups; 5) 45 ounces;
Activity
#5: 1) F; 2) F; 3) O; 4) F; 5) O; 6) O; 7)
F; 8) F; 9) F; 10) O;
Activity
#6: 1) answers will vary; 2) answers will
vary; 3) answers will vary; 4) answers will vary; 5) answers will vary; 6)
answers will vary.
Activity
#7: 1) Social Security, the tax code, and
the amount of taxes paid; 2) Issues or subjects that take place within the
borders of the United States; 3) the government; 4) retired people 5) People
pay money to the government when they work. In later years, they get some of that money back as Social
Security payments; 6) Bush wants to let workers make some of their own
decisions about how to save that money. 7) Bush’s plan could make it
harder for people to live during retirement; 8) answers will vary; 9)
Rehnquist, Stevens, O’Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Ginsburg,
Breyer; 10) William Rehnquist, answers will vary.
Activity
#8: 1) six years; 2) 2010; 3) answers will
vary; 4) answers will vary; 5) against, “…the United States has to
END the war…”; 6) two years; 7) ten; 8) eight; 9) 33; 10) 99.