Weekly Reading 11

The astounding video by Sarah Stuteville was captivating and direct. She used her love for journalism to begin the Common Language Project. With this project, she travels the world with her two friends to seek out the truth and often persecution of other cultures. In Chapter 8, there are also stories about teachers who try to get their students involved with global current events. As Hobbs relates on page 145, redlasso.com allows students to look at news stories, blogs, etc. of over 150 cities across the US. This enables students to get a feel for cities that they have never visited. Mr. Landis helped his students by teaching them the process that journalists use to question and identify news sources. News and media are everywhere. We come in contact with current events through shows even like House and The Simpsons by the characters voicing their opinions and views. For example, the forms of media that I have used to do this blog have shared common opinions about teaching world events.