homework for Wed

laptop editorial finished and posted

outline for next piece completed with thesis statements for each paragraph

homework

find some good fear ads and embed them in your blog


find a few good ads that use transference and post them.  Print ads would be good


analyze each using AIDA

for Monday

Finish Editorials

post notes on advertising in blog

Find two good ads(advertisements) in English,

• one print and one video
• post them in your blog
• analyse both according to AIDA

Stonehill CIS report

For Thursday...

Write your sports report of the game.

be sure to include all parts of a report we have studied. Use your notes on the game and the tips provided.

100 words +

American and European militaries was intensified their barrage of Col.


Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces to trave air and sea because the mission toke the ability away the ability for him to use the Libyan air space 


Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before began to regroup in the east. 


The former chairman of the  Arab League, Amr Moussa, was calling for an emergency meeting to discuss the situvation in the Arab world.  


Libyan government claims that allied bombardment had killed dozens of civilians.


Vice Adm. William E. Gortney said in a Washington news conference that the United States was not trying to kill the Libyan leader.

The American and French militaries both said that Qatar would join the military operation, which would be the first Arab military force to explicitly sign on.


Admiral Gortney said that allied strikes against Colonel Qaddafi’s forces had been very effective.


Saturday night’s strikes had done little to stop the Qaddafi forces from shelling the city and its port, blowing up two power stations. A rebel who said he was a doctor said seven had died and the city was without water or power. 


Earlier Sunday, Colonel Qaddafi delivered a fresh and defiant tirade against the allied military action, pledging retaliation and saying his forces would fight a long war to victory. 


TRIPOLI, Libya — American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col.Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said.  /// World news


Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began to regroup in the east as allied warplanes destroyed dozens of government armored vehicles near the rebel capital, Benghazi, leaving a field of burned wreckage along the coastal road to the city. By nightfall, the rebels had pressed almost 40 miles back west toward the strategic crossroads city of Ajdabiya, witnesses and rebel forces said. And they seemed to consolidate control of Benghazi despite heavy fighting there against loyalist forces on Saturday.
There was evidence, too, that the allies were striking more targets in and around Tripoli, the capital. More explosions could be seen or heard near the city center, where an international press corps was kept under tight security constraints. Recurring bursts of antiaircraft guns and a prolonged shower of tracers arced over the capital on Sunday night.  /// World most serious news 


A day after a summit meeting in Paris set the military operation in motion, a vital Arab participant in the agreement expressed unhappiness with the way the strikes were unfolding. The former chairman of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, told Egyptian state media that he was calling for an emergency league meeting to discuss the situation in the Arab world, and particularly Libya. // world serious news




 Are the airstrikes having the desired effect? Arstrikes have killed 7 chivilens so farr.
Gaddafi didn't get tretend by the bombing the landed 50 meters away from hes telte. Should Gaddafi give up or fight? If Gaddaif give up that can save alot of lifes and fix all the problems that he have coust Egypt so farr, or he can fight and still keep the lead as leader for Egypt. Gaddafi is killing people by holding on to the lead.

homework for friday

Fix sentences from radio ideas

Finish All previously incomplete work



Write ten key ideas in sentence form.

Analyse the first three paragraphs as news.

Answer the following in paragraph form... Are the airstrikes having the desired effect?

also, fix last radio report

http://bstuffengfilmdralitrhetads.blogspot.com/2011/03/ny-times-libya.html 

NY Times, Libya

March 20, 2011

Allies Target Qaddafi’s Ground Forces as Libyan Rebels Regroup

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and ELISABETH BUMILLER

TRIPOLI, Libya — American and European militaries intensified their barrage of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces by air and sea on Sunday, as the mission moved beyond taking away his ability to use Libyan airspace, to obliterating his hold on the ground as well, allied officials said.

Rebel forces, battered and routed by loyalist fighters just the day before, began to regroup in the east as allied warplanes destroyed dozens of government armored vehicles near the rebel capital, Benghazi, leaving a field of burned wreckage along the coastal road to the city. By nightfall, the rebels had pressed almost 40 miles back west toward the strategic crossroads city of Ajdabiya, witnesses and rebel forces said. And they seemed to consolidate control of Benghazi despite heavy fighting there against loyalist forces on Saturday.
There was evidence, too, that the allies were striking more targets in and around Tripoli, the capital. More explosions could be seen or heard near the city center, where an international press corps was kept under tight security constraints. Recurring bursts of antiaircraft guns and a prolonged shower of tracers arced over the capital on Sunday night.

A day after a summit meeting in Paris set the military operation in motion, a vital Arab participant in the agreement expressed unhappiness with the way the strikes were unfolding. The former chairman of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, told Egyptian state media that he was calling for an emergency league meeting to discuss the situation in the Arab world, and particularly Libya.

“What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," he said, referring to Libyan government claims that allied bombardment had killed dozens of civilians. But reporters seeking proof have been offered none to account for even part of that number. Around 10 p.m., an explosion thundered from Colonel Qaddafi’s personal compound in Tripoli, and a column of smoke rose above it, suggesting that the allied forces had struck either his residence there or the nearby barracks of his personal guards. A group of foreign journalists were bused to the compound early on Monday morning and shown a building partially destroyed by a bomb. But those who attended reported no evidence of casualties.

Asked about the explosion, Vice Adm. William E. Gortney said in a Washington news conference that the United States was not trying to kill the Libyan leader. “At this particular point I can guarantee that he’s not on a targeting list,” he said, saying that the United States military was working to weaken his military capacity rather than removing him.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, also focused on those goals, talking about how allied forces had grounded Colonel Qaddafi’s aircraft and worked to protect civilians — both objectives stated by the United Nations Security Council in approving the military mission. “We hit a lot of targets, focused on his command and control, focused on his air defense, and actually attacked some of his forces on the ground in the vicinity of Benghazi,” Admiral Mullen told Fox News.

But the campaign may be balancing multiple goals. President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and British and French leaders have also talked of a broader policy objective — that Colonel Qaddafi must leave power. In his comments on Sunday, Admiral Mullen suggested that objective lay outside the bounds of the military campaign, saying on NBC that Colonel Qaddafi’s remaining in power after the United States military accomplished its mission was “potentially one outcome.”

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, on a flight to Russia, said he was concerned about that possible result. Though he praised the mission’s “successful start,” he cautioned that a partitioned Libya, with rebels holding the east and Colonel Qaddafi the West, could bring trouble. “I think all countries probably would like to see Libya remain a unified state,” Mr. Gates said. “Having states in the region begin to break up because of internal differences is a formula for real instability in the future.”

Gen. Carter F. Ham, who as the head of the United States Africa Command is overseeing the operation, said in an e-mail on Sunday that “the initial strikes have had, generally, the effects we sought. Fixed air defense sites, particularly the longer-range systems, appear to no longer be operating.”

He said that “some ground forces in the vicinity of Bengazi were destroyed. Some appear to be at least static, if not moving back south and west.” He said there were few signs of fighting in the city itself. The general praised the coordination with Britain, France and other coalition partners, and said he expected additional countries to join the operation “in the coming days.”

The American and French militaries both said that Qatar would join the military operation, which would be the first Arab military force to explicitly sign on. But there were no details on what role the Qatar forces would take.

The Americans, working with the British, French and others, flew a wider array of missions than the day before, when Navy cruise missile barrages were their main weapons. They deployed B-2 stealth bombers, F-16 and F-15 fighter jets and Harrier attack jets flown by the Marine Corps striking at Libyan ground forces, air defenses and airfields. Navy electronic warplanes, EA-18G Growlers, jammed Libyan radar and communications. British pilots flew many of the bombing missions, and French, British and American planes all conducted ground attacks near Benghazi, American commanders said.

Admiral Gortney said that allied strikes against Colonel Qaddafi’s forces had been “very effective.” But he warned that coalition forces had not hit Libyan mobile surface-to-air missile batteries and that shoulder-launched missiles, called Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems, or Manpads, also remained. “There are quite a few of those out there,” he said.

Near Misurata, the last major Western city held by the rebels, B-2 bombers destroyed aircraft shelters at an airfield, the admiral said. And a rebel spokesman within the besieged city, giving his name as Muhammad, said allied airstrikes had destroyed a military convoy coming to reinforce the troops encircling the city. But he said that Saturday night’s strikes had done little to stop the Qaddafi forces from shelling the city and its port, blowing up two power stations. A rebel who said he was a doctor said seven had died and the city was without water or power.

Still, he remained confident that the new help could help turn the momentum toward his fighters. “If the international community takes care of the supply lines,” he said, “I assurre you that we can take care of whatever is inside of Misurata.”

“Tripoli will rise up,” he predicted. “If they see his power bases crumbling I am sure they will rise up. We want the international community to go all the way to bomb this bloody dictator into submission.”
Earlier Sunday, Colonel Qaddafi delivered a fresh and defiant tirade against the allied military action, pledging retaliation and saying his forces would fight a long war to victory.

He was speaking in a telephone call to state television, which, apparently for security reasons, did not disclose his whereabouts. The Libyan leader has not been seen in public since the United States and European countries began their strikes. “We will fight you if you continue your attacks on us,” Mr. Qaddafi said. “Those who are on the land will win the battle,” he declared, warning without explanation that “oil will not be left to the United States, France and Britain.”

Libyan officials and state television have said that dozens of Libyan civilians were killed in the air attacks. But an Indonesian newscaster, Andini Effendi, reported Sunday that she was able to visit two Tripoli hospitals after the airstrikes early on Sunday and found no influx of casualties, only empty ambulances. State television did not show any scenes of destruction, and Libyan officials declined to show any to visiting journalists either.
Instead, they promised Sunday to bring foreign journalists to a funeral for civilians killed in the attacks. But the funeral turned out to be more of a pro-Qaddafi political rally, and the true number of dead remained a mystery.

On the way to the funeral a bus full of journalists was parked waiting for about 25 minutes near a waterfront cemetery, until the arrival of several truckloads of hundreds of Qaddafi supporters waving green flags and wearing green headscarves. Then, when journalists entered the cemetery amid gunfire in the air and pro-Qaddafi chants, they found three freshly covered graves and 24 empty cinderblock holes.

One of the recent burials was said to have died of causes unrelated to the attacks. Another was said to belong to a 3-month-old baby girl, Siham Atabeeb, who was said to have been killed when a bomb hit her home. But neither of her parents nor any siblings were there, and people who said they were more distant relatives told conflicting stories about whether her mother was also wounded and whether she had any siblings.

People around the other fresh grave also said they were relatives, but people gave conflicting descriptions of the deceased — he was 25 or 29; he was killed in his home, driving by a military base, or walking in a neighborhood near the Qaddafi compound; he was a taxi driver, unemployed, or in some other pro

David D. Kirkpatrick reported from Tripoli, Libya, and Elisabeth Bumiller from Washington. Reporting was contributed by Kareem Fahim from Benghazi, Libya, Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker from Washington, and Steven Erlanger from Paris.

Write ten key ideas in sentence form.

Analyse the first three paragraphs as news.

Answer the following in paragraph form... Are the airstrikes having the desired effect?

also, fix last radio report

for monday

Take one news article from bbc.co.uk and analyse it according to our news format.

Take the radio news from March 4th and analyse according to our radio news format.

Homework for Thursday

finish radio news from monday

write up radio news from Tuesday

Finish old news sentence/paragraph work

Homework for Tusday March

Listen to BBC for schools take notes as above.

News 101

1st Paragraph
Who what where when

2nd Paragraph
How t why the audience cares

3rd Paragraph
most important details

extra work if needed

Answer any two of the following questions in proper paragraph form.


1.The two main religious groups in Sudan spent three decades at war. Why do you think people of different religious groups experience conflict?

2.In 2004, President George Bush declared that genocide would not happen again “on his watch”, while the genocide in Darfur is ongoing, what would you do to end the crisis?

3.Why do you think the southern Sudanese want to form their own country? How do you think the infrastructure challenges can be addressed?

Homework for Friday, Feb. 11th

read the following article.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/world/jan-june11/sudan_01-07.html

answer the following questions in sentence form.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1.When did Sudan gain independence from Great Britain?

2.How many civil wars have engulfed Sudan for almost 30 years?

3.What was the root of these conflicts?

4.Which two groups in Darfur mobilized against the Sudanese government in 2003?

5.What is genocide?

6.How many people have been affected by the crisis in Darfur?

7.What are the major sources of the Sudanese economy?

8.How much humanitarian aid does the U.S. donate to Sudan every year?

9.What are some of the basic infrastructures needed in Southern Sudan?

homework for Tuesday, Feb 8th

Answer any two of the following in paragraph form
1. Do you think WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be prosecuted for the most recent document leak? Why or why not?

2. How could revealing the contents of secret diplomatic discussions hurt the U.S.’s relationships with other countries?

3. Do you agree with Assange’s argument that transparency, or bringing secrets to the public’s attention, can help businesses function more ethically and is ultimately better for the world? Why or why not?

4. What do you think Assange means when he says that “stopping leaks is a new form of censorship?”

5. What role did the media play in making the WikiLeaks release known to the public? Without the media, do you think most people would have found out about the leak?

Homework for Monday, Feb. 7th

read story at

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/arts/july-dec10/wikileaks2_12-03.html

answer the following questions in sentence form

1.How many documents has WikiLeaks released recently that has world governments and free press advocates debating if the activities are illegal or acts of free speech?
2.Who were these documents written by?
3.What are “cables”?

4.Why is the U.S. State Department embarrassed by the released documents?

5.What did WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tell Forbes magazine can improve the world and the free market system?

6.What is the Espionage Act?

7.Why would it be difficult to prosecute Julian Assange in U.S. courts?

8.Who has been charged with giving WikiLeaks the classified documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?

9.What Scandinavian country is proving a haven for websites like WikiLeaks?

Homework for Friday Feb. 4th

Answer any two of the following questions from the last article in proper paragraph form.


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. How might Xiaobo’s selection for the Nobel Prize help his plight and his cause?

2. Why do you think China decided to boycott the Nobel Prize ceremony?

3. Can you name other Nobel Peace Prize winners whose selection for the prize was controversial?

4. Do you think the battle for human rights will ever end? Why or why not?

5. Why do you think China is so frequently mentioned when it comes to human rights violations? What reforms in China do you think would change this?


remember...

- Hook
- Introduction

-Thesis

- Example (2 maximum)

- Explanation 50-70 % of the paragraph, including context

- Conclusion/link to next paragraph