Current Event Craziness

by Andrew

Have you ever wondered what is going on in 7^th grade? The 7^th grade is doing something called current events in Mrs. Janulis's room and they must be done once a week. There are four classes and all but one must get their current events done by Friday. The other class has to get it done on Thursday because of another ELP class. Here's some more info about current events.

The reason they are doing current events because Mrs. J. wants students to understand what's going on around the world. The competition that is going on will last 10 weeks and so far, a few weeks have already passed. If a class wins overall, each kid in that class gets a free certificate that gets them out of one C.E. C.E. have been going on for four years. Austin, a 7^th grader, said, “Current Events are pretty cool because different countries have different news [and] thats very interesting but sometimes is a challenge to get them in because of other homework.” Maddy, a 7^th grader said, “I like hearing about what happens and I like the competition because it gets people doing them. I don't like doing the opinion sometimes.” Dakota of 7^th grade said, “I like how you have to write about it and I don't like doing two column notes. I [also] like how you sit in a circle and explain them. [But] I don't like [how sometimes people get low] grades even if people work hard [on them].”

Current events are simple to do. You find an article about anything (it may have to be on a specific country) then you print it out. Then you must underline all of the important parts of the article. After that, you get a sheet that you must complete two column notes on the back and complete a paragraph on the front. On the bottom of the front, there is a place where you put a comment about the article plus a place for questions about the article. Then you bring it in on the day you're told to and you're trying to get the highest percentage if you're doing a competition. The competition that happens lasts for a long time and you are responsible for getting your C.E. in. if someone in your group doesn't get a C.E. in, it hurts your teams percentage.

Overall, C.E are easy to do if you keep up with it, but difficult to catch up on. All the 7^th graders will always remember doing C.E in 7^th grade.