Homework due 10/20/11

New and returning students:

Here's your homework:

1. Bookmark the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/

2. Watch the BBC 1 Minute new with a parent. Record at least 2 news stories that you watched.

3. Read through these sections in your Model UN handbook: Present Day and What the UN Can and Cannot Do

4. With a highlighter or colored pencil, mark some ideas that you are think are important about the UN.

5. Using the ideas that you highlighted, turn the fact into a question.

a. Ex: fact: The UN does not make world laws ---Question: Can the UN pass global laws?

5. See how many questions you can come up with (minimum of 10). Write your questions and answers on index cards (question one one side, answer on the other).

6. Read the section The Six Main Organs of the UN. Take notes on each UN body (General Assembly, Security Council, ECOSOC, etc.) using lined paper or type it.

Make sure your notes answer these questions:

a. What does this part of the UN do?

b. Do the members rotate? Who are the members?

c. What type of problems do they solve?

Middle School

1. Watch the BBC 1 minute news and record 2 stories.

2. Complete the next phase of your UN presentation.

3. Divide up your work: who will contact your teachers, the lower el teachers. If you want to write them a note, please e-mail it to me first.

4. Be prepared to answer the Upper El questions about this section of your handbook: Present Day UN and What the UN Can and Cannot Do. Read these sections and take notes if you don't know the information.