Homework due 9/19/13

New students

 

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 (http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/)

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.