Homework Due 9/20/12

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

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

3. With a highlighter or colored pencil, mark some ideas that you are think are important about the UN.
4.  Go to the cyberschoolbus web site.

5. Click on Millennium Development Goals of the UN (grey box). List the 8 goals and draw their symbol.

6. Using this web site as research, write a few sentences about each of these topics:

-what are MDGs

-current progress

-how are goals related to each other

-how countries can achieve goals

-special role of developed countries and goal #8

Returning students

1. Complete steps 1-4 of regular homework.

2. Re-read the information about the MDGs.  Make flash cards for each MDG-print out a symbol of each goal, paste it on one side of an index card, and on the back write a few facts about the goal.