On 5/6/02 11:53:00 AM, Michelle Mc Clintick wrote:
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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>1. By Kids for
>Kids:anti-violence group
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>In the space below, write the
>title of your tentative topic
>(e.g. Internet addiction)
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>2. When I was a freshman in
>high school a nearby high
>school that our school was
>close to had a school shooting
>(Thurston High). After words
>everyone wanted to do anything
>they could to help their
>neighbor high school. After
>lots of brain storming my
>school came up with an
>excellent solution, a
>anti-violence group called By
>Kids for Kids which was
>dedicated to ending school
>violence. I am really proud
>of my high school for coming
>up with such an important
>organization and I think it
>would be fun to see how far
>they have come since I
>graduated from high school.
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>Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
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>3. By Kids 4 Kids or
>otherwise known as BK4K is a
>student to student movement to
>end school violence. BK4K is
>a branch of the Ribbon of
>Promise, an organization that
>was founded just days after
>the Thurston shooting. By
>kids for kids does not believe
>in the code of silence. They
>think if a student hears any
>kind of threat to their school
>that this is the one time it
>is ok to rat out on a friend.
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>Spend about five minutes
>listing what you already know
>(if anything) about your
>topic. For
>example, are you aware of any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions, important people
>or institutions involved, key
>schools of thought, the extent
>of the
>problem, current trends, etc.?
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>4. How do they send their
>message out?
>Where do they get money for
>their organization?
>How many students are in the
>By Kids for Kids?
>Has their method been proven
>to work?
>What are they currently doing
>in their organization?
>Does BK4K have an advisor?
>Is BK4K just in Springfield?
>Do they send their message out
>just in the U.S. or world
>wide?
>What do they do after a school
>shooting?
>What makes BK4K think their
>message really works?
>When was their foundation
>founded?
>How often does this group meet
>in a week?
>Is Thurston a part of BK4K
>now?
>How many students have died in
>school shootings, how many
>were injured?
>How many school shootings has
>their been?
>Was their a problem with
>school violence in the past(40
>years ago)?
>Why do students decide to
>shoot up their school?
>How does BK4K actually help
>stop school violence?
>How much money does it take
>for the organization to run?
>Who came up with the idea of a
>student led organization?
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>Now spend at least fifteen
>minutes brainstorming a list
>of questions about your topic
>you’d love
>to learn the answers to. Make
>this list as long as you can,
>and don’t worry whether every
>question is a good one.
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> 5.
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>If you’re working in a
>computer lab (or generating
>hard copies of the exercise),
>your instructor
>may ask you to comment on
>other students’ responses to
>Steps 1-4. Focus particularly
>on what
>your classmates did in the
>fourth step. For each you
>view, do two things: add a
>question you
>would like answered about the
>student’s topic, and mark the
>question you find most
>intriguing.
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>I like the question you rase in asking if there has been any school violence in the last 40 years. It brings to mind the question for me if this is a new problem that we are faceing or if the problem of violence in our school's have been over looked all of these years and why?