Letter 3: Newsletter,vol. 8, no. 3 17 September 2017

1. Complete reading the following Newsletters:
Newsletter,vol. 8, no. 3 17 September 2017

  Topics: 

(1) September 11th

(2) Summer Flowers

(3) Fixing the Water Mains 

(4) Lexie

(5) Hurricane Irma

2. In your letter 3, respond to the topics in the Newsletter and answer at least 3~5 study questions.

3.In your own blog, finish your Letter 3 in response to the newsletter. (Title: Letter 3 _____-->your own title, or Response to Newsletter vol.8 no 1)  DUE: 11PM Fri 22 Sep.

4.Visit "T" Time, and leave at least  one comment  in no. 3.  Please sign your comments with your first name and your school or your town, (i.e. Jack, ZZSH Taipei) DUE: 11PM Fri 22 Sep.

Newsletter, Volume 8, number 3, Study Questions

You must answer the questions in complete sentences. How do you know if it is a complete sentence? You must give enough information from the question so that the teacher can understand your answer without having to look up the question. If you using quotations from the story as part of your answer, those quotations should be in “quotation marks”

1. What events happened on September 11th 2001, that are now commemorated by Memorials through the United States?

2. In the Memorial in Tempe, how are the different flags marked?

3. Why is the Tempe Town Lake an appropriate place for the “Healing Field”?

4. Where do most of the flowers that Mr. Maher mentions grow wild? What is necessary to be sure that the flowers can thrive in the desert?

5. Why are certain colors of flowers usually planted? Why were the blue flowers planted? When are the blossoms on the blue flowers actually open?

6. What is the major project that the City of Tempe will soon be starting in Mr. Maher’s neighborhood?

7. What will be the benefits of this project? What will be some of the drawbacks while the project is in progress?

8. What are Labrador Retrievers actually bred to do? How will a “good” Labrador show this when they play “fetch”?

9. What areas were stuck and damaged by Hurricane Irma? (This questions is not directly answered in the Newsletter, but you should know this from following the news. Hint: One area is a state in the United States, but the other is a region, named after a sea.)

10. Why does Mr. Maher suspect that somebody has a relative in the power pole business?