Current Events Practice

1. What's being discussed in this article? This article discusses how people in China are beginning to fight back against the law that allows them to only have one child. This law has been in place for nearly 30 years but is slowly changing in some parts of the country. In some rural parts of the country people are allowed to have a second child if their first was a girl. It is still widely believed that male children are superior to female. The government is hesitant to get rid of the one child law however. They estimated the fertility rate to be around 1.8, when in actuality it may be closer to 1.6. There could end up being a problem however because women in cities and wealthy rural areas did not generally want multiple children.
2. When did the event happen? (Is this breaking news or something that's been analyzed and discussed for a while?) This story was written recently, but this has been an issue ever since the law was implemented 30-40 years ago. 
3. What questions do you have that would help make this article make more sense to you? What more do you need to learn about to be able to report on this event? It would help to learn more about the law itself, and other cases of people trying to fight the law. it also may help to learn about how the fertility rate is calculated and why the number is what it is. A question you may ask is why do women not want to have multiple children?

Important Current Events

Mine.
1. 9/11- It is a very clear memory in my mind. I remember we were having work done on our house and Bob, our contractor, came in and said that the World Trade Center's had been attacked. I thought he said the World Toy Towers, and it was not until I got to school and they had the news running on the TV that I realized it was the World Trade Towers.
2. Obama's election- I remember sitting in the car after the primaries with my mom and talking about Obama, and she made a prediction that Obama would be president, and he turned out to be. I also remember watching the TV the night of the election when they were counting votes and finding out that Obama won. The other memory I have is Inauguration day when the whole high school went into Wood's Hall to watch on a big projector. Mrs. Randall was sitting there and crying and I remember looking around and seeing all of the different expressions on everyone's faces.
3. St. Louis Rams lose to the New England Patriots in the Super bowl in 2001. I remember this because the game was on my birthday and we were having family and friends over to watch the game. My grandma got me hooked on football and I was so excited for the game because I remembered what it was like two years earlier when they won.

Mom
1. The first Earth Day. Her mom got involved and got her involved and it taught her a lot about the environment which in turn affected the way she has viewed things her entire life.
2. Barack Obama's election. It is a very important event in the development of our country. He came out of nowhere and convinced the American people to vote for him. He had new ideas and seemed less influenced by the political world around him and seemed like he would be a good change from before.
3. Space Travel. This was another big moment in our country's history. She remembers watching it on th TV at camp and thinking about how special it was that there was technology available that allowed space travel.