In this unit, we explored about News article, this unit included news article writing and annotation.We have done several activities that improved our news writing skills, which are many, but similar, through those activities, I’ve learned a really important skill, which is an article shouldn’t be written in the first person. Of course, I’ve learned other things.
Over this unit, we did many annotations on some articles, I’ve improved a lot at annotating articles, at first, I was struggling at that, but with over practice through classes and homework, I’ve become a better at annotating news.
The ways that make your annotation better is to categorize your commands and separate commands by colors, use 5Ws+H..etc   annotating articles helped me a lot at understanding and analyzing articles, which is based on criterion A.

For the final project, we did news articles writing, we grouped together and combined each person’s article into one newspaper, our topics are focusing on biggest problems in the community that make people anxious, or make parents anxious, such as food quality, cyber addiction,and there are 3 more topics, which is Recycling issue, Littering and water pollution, these three topics are focusing on the environment around our community, which is also problems that people worry about,and my topic is about recycling issue,some people really care, however, my article is for those people who do not care and try to convince them.

This unit is the first unit of the year, if I would grade how I felt over this unit to 10, maybe I would give it a 7 because at first, I was struggling on annotating articles, but then I finally handled the situation. However, Overall, I felt great through this unit, I like those activities we have done, especially news articles writing, in addition, I also really like reading part, we have 10 mins reading time before class every day in which our writing skills and reading could be improved.

On Octobober,5th,2017 we have completed language and literature first unit, over this unit, we were focusing on news article writing.
Activities we have done through this unit:
-5Ws+H
-News article writing
-Annotations
-Compare and Contrasts
-Take notes using Turbonotes online

News Annotation

Compare & Contrast 2 Similar News Stories

Similarities:
Both two articles are focusing at Hurricane Harvey and how is the US affected, both two articles are focusing on the same two affected states which is Houston and Texas because Houston and Texas are the most affected area
Both are also focusing on the statuses of Hurricane Harvey, such as categorization of Harvey and its wind speed, how is the storm unusual, and lastly, how did its wind speed and storm change over time and how it was expected to change; both have the same information on the statuses.
Both articles mentioned about the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, he claimed that everyone has to work together to rebuild the affected state.

Differences:
Even though both two articles are focusing on the same affected areas, but the statuses of how they are affected are a little bit different caused by the different update meant the time of two articles. One is released on September,28th, 2017, and the other one was updated by 30th, August 2017, such as the older article says the city had received 20 inches of rainwater, but the newer one says the city received 24 inches of rainwater.
The newer article explains better and more detailed. For example, both two articles talk about the category of the storm and tropical storm, but the newer one explains more detailed, it talks about what speed the wind is called “Tropical storm” (39-73 miles), and how is the storm categorized by its wind speed.
One article is also focusing on rescue effort, such as “Texas Governor activated 12000 national guards, and state guard troops, other states also activated emergency workers in order to help those

      Natural resources depletion by Anderson Chen

I believe everyone has a strong demand for natural resources. Natural resources are really important for humans, animals, like plant, for plants, clean soil and freshwater are the most important resources to it. As present-day technology, we still have strong demands for every natural resources. Today i will be talking about natural resources depletion, i want you guys to know one vocabulary before we get into the topic,that’s ‘depletion’. What is a depletion? When a source is being used faster than it can replenished.(http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/consequences_of_depletion_of_natural_resources). So basically, i have two main issue to talk about, which is coal depletion which is depleting, and trees depletion, which is depleting permanently.

 

              One of the biggest issues is coal depletion, what is caol? And how is it formed? Over million of years, dead animals and plants are covered by layers of soil and form coal.(Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland)

It’s widely used for burning in homes,and burned for electricity.(Richard,E & Simkins,J(2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland) so it has been a depleted.

Scientist discovered that there are 3 trillion tinned of coal left in US, unfortunately, only 235 billion tonnes of coal can be mind by present day technology,even there are still many coal left , but it’s depleting fastly. There are some main countries are causing this, which imports and produces the most, there’s China and US, which produces the most, China produces 3117 million tonnes each year, US produces 1147 million tonnes each year, Taiwan, Japan, and india, which imports the most, Taiwan imports 66 million tonnes from foreign country each year, India imports 106 million tonnes each year, and Japan around 80 million tonnes each year(Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland). These countries are only main countries whose causes this, other countries also produce and import.

There are 864 billion tonnes of coal lest in the world, people used 37 billion tonnes each year, that means there are only 23 years worth of coal left,(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/21/1076665/-23 years worth of coal left)however, following the improvement of technology, people demands of coal gradually become lower.

               Trees and Lumber depletion are another big Environmental issue. Lumber is widely used in building, pencil, paper, tissues.etc.  Once the trees are extinct, we will die soon, trees can do photosynthesis,they can turn Co2 into Oxygen,for reduce air pollution, so it’s a really important resource for remaining our lives.

My research result shows there are 15 billion trees are chopped down every year,meaning there are 55600 per minute! there are 46% of trees has fallen since the advent of human civilization

(http://www/ran/org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year)

Now, the americans are trying to stop this situation, they planted at least 1.6 billion trees each year, that’s about 6 trees are planted per person approximately (http://www.washingtorpost.com/news/energy-enviroment/wp/2015/09/…)

For replenish it, we still have to plant more, if everyone plants 3 each year, after few years, world’s trees population will more than we used.

 

             Natural resources is a big and seriously issue, it’s getting worse than worse following the years, we need to save this problem, because it affect us either, we should protect and take care of where we live, not keep harming it,now, do something, you don’t have to plant a tree or do recycling.etc, you can reduce your leftovers,close the door while the AC is on.etc even it is big work or just a little work, it’s all helpful, there are 7.4 billion people live in this beautiful planet we have to used more, but we can also do more!

 

Bibliography:http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/09/…

 

http://www/ran/org/how_many_trees_are_cut_down_every_year

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/21/1076665/-23 years worth of coal left

 

Richard,E & Simkins,J (2013) Natural Resources Malaysia:Wayland

http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/consequences_of_depletion_of_natural_resources