from another listserve (posted with permission from Caroline)
Everyone on the list (and in the country) should read "Why Your Drugs
Cost So Much" in the newest issue of Time, Feb. 2, 2004. It should be an
eye-opener for some, and it will give you fuel to use when talking to
voters and legislators.
The graphs on pages 46-47 would make an excellent lesson idea for math,
social studies, or statistics teachers and work into your TEKS. Students
could practice reading these, could look for stats from other sources to
defend or refute the Time stats, could make similar graphs with
different topics (perhaps oil consumption or ag production).
In fact, English teachers should spend more time working cooperatively
with other subject teachers to assign a research topic in this manner,
one that is modeled after the Time layout of text, photos, graphs, bold
quotes, etc. Research papers on topics of importance like this one and
many others that the nation faces would be more valuable than those same
old "literary criticism" topics that rarely, if ever, have value to
contemporary students unless they are planning to be authors or English
profs (and most are not). There are still plenty of "English class
skills" to be used and evaluated in a research topic like this.
Caroline Joiner
Sacred Heart School, Lib/Tech Coord.
Hallettsville, TX
Site: http://www.shschool.org
Email: mcbj@gvec.net
Mary Croix Ludwick, Librarian K-5
Owen Elementary, Lewisville ISD (near Dallas, Texas)
ludwickm@lisd.net (school) ludwick@swbell.net (home)
"Those who don't read have no advantage over
those who can't." Mark Twain
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