Students!
Last week, in preparation for writing our Summer Reading essays, we spent a day doing an activity on "Paragraph Arguments" (aka, topic sentences) and one of those activities asked you to choose a pre-written PA and then write a paragraph that followed it.
One of those prompts was "Newton Public Schools should purchase personal iPads or laptops for all of the district's students." Some of you chose to write on it (while most of you wrote about twerking and Miley Cyrus).
Well, here's an article from today's (Sunday, 9/15) New York Times Magazine in which that argument is put to the test: one district DID buy iPads for all its students, with many arguments expressed on both sides of the issue.
Read the article here!
And keep in mind: the issues about technology and privacy brought up pertain directly to 1984, the novel we will all start reading this week.
Feel free to leave comments on the article in the space below.
-MrW
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