Thursday, February 26, 2009

FRIDAY 2-27-09 YAH m,orning blog

use your voc words :process, assume, respond
Grab a newspaper.
silent reading until 8:30
Then type up a summary of your favorite article.
You must use your voc words in your summary.type them in caps!!
title:
8 sentence summary
3 reflection. i think, i feel, i agree
1 interesting fact!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Today in The Union Tribune I read about how Manny Ramirez rejected another offer from the Los Angeles Dodgers. The team announced the outfielders agent, Scott Boras, had declined a &25 million, one year contract with a $20 million player option for 2010. It was the club fourth offer to Ramirez this season. We want Manny back but we are negotiating against ourselves, said owner Frank McCourt said in a statement. “ When his agent finds those serious offers from other clubs, we’ll be happy to restart the negotiations.

Anonymous said...

In one of today’s top stories, photos of war dead are no longer banned. The Obama administration is revising an 18-year ban on new coverage of the return of war dead, allowing photographs of flag covered caskets when families of the fallen troops agree. Although details are being worked out, the new policy will give families a choice. In another article, a dig yielded a big find when whale bones were discovered beneath a mammoth fossil. The East Village construction site for the new Thomas Jefferson School of Law has become the dig dreams of for San Diego paleontologists. The jaw bone, shoulder blade, neck bone and upper spine of a baleen whale, possibly 600,000 years old. Finally, scientists see an exciting clue to growing new teeth. A single gene appears to be in charge, preventing additional tooth formation in species made to have a limited set. After breeding mice that lack the gene, the small animals grew extra teeth next to there molars. A second row. If scientists new exactly what triggers a new tooth to grow in the first place, its possible they could they could switch the process developed in early life and begin to regenerate teeth.