My Expectations for the Future

Answer the following questions:
1. What are your expectations for the future once you finish highschool and receive your diploma?
2. Now that you are about to finish this stage of your life: how would you describe the word HIGHSCHOOL?
3. Send a message to all your classmates or friends in other groups; write something that you want to tell them before you leave.

Importance of Having a Healthy Life

Answer the following questions:
1. How do you keep a healthy life? What do you do and which things do you avoid?
2. Why type  of medicine do you prefer to receive: conventional or alternative medicine? Why? talk about its advantages and disadvantages

3. Which will be your advice or suggestions for taking  the stress out?

Three national days of mourning declared after four students killed in San Ramón

Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - By Matt Lechuga

Four students died after they were struck by a car during the early morning Wednesday.

Four students were killed Wednesday morning in an accident that occurred in San Rafael de San Ramón, Alajuela, 65 km northwest of San José.

A group of nine senior students from Julio Acosta García High School in San Ramón were hit by a driver in a Toyota Tercel while walking on the side of the road, according to the daily La Nacíon. The newspaper reported that the group had been singing a serenade, a tradition among students in their last year of high school.   

Dennis Méndez, Luis Alonso Solís and Angie Miranda, all 18, died at the scene. A fourth victim identified as 18-year-old Iván Elizondo died at Hospital Mexico. President Laura Chinchilla declared three days of mourning in the afternoon.

A fifth student, identified as 17-year-old Joxiny Hidalgo, remains in critical condition, a spokeswoman for Hospital México said.

The accident occurred at approximately 4 a.m.

The Judicial Investigation took the driver, whose last name is Chavarría, into custody. According to La Nación, Chavarría is a 25-year-old prison guard at La Reforma Prison in Alajuela. He was allegedly driving on a license that expired in 2006, his vehicle had a circulation permit from another automobile, and the car’s vehicle inspection sticker was issued for a motorcycle.

Instructions:

1.      First, you will read the new posted on the blog related to a recent event of four students who were killed by a drunk driver.

2.      When you finish reading answer the following questions as your blog’s comment.

1.      What is your perspective or opinion about this pitiful event?

2.      What is your opinion about Costa Rican’s laws and punishment in regards to drunk drivers? Do they deserve a harder sentence?

3.      As a student of eleventh grade, what suggestions or precautions can you take into account and give to other students when doing these types of activities (serenades) late at night?

Money and Wealth

Instructions for your blog

For this first blog, you will write about the role that money plays in our life. Answer the two following questions with your own opinion and using a paragraph format.
a. 1. What would you do if you had a lot of money and how would this change your life?n Explain what would you do
b. Is money so important nowadays? Explain why. Provide arguments to support your position.

School Times!!!

Instructions for your blog 2.

For this second blog, you will write about highschool years.  Choose one of the following options and write about it:

1. An anecdote (funny, nice scary…)that happened to you and your classmates which you will never forget.
2. What have you learned in these five years of highschool? Not about the school subjects but about something worthy for your future life.
3. What would you miss from your highschool once you finish this year?
4. How would be a perfect day at highschool? What changes would you like to make to your daily rutine? 

Children Who Kill

Thirteen-years-old Peter Barton (not his real name) was playing with a little girl of 6. Claiming that he was pretending to be a professional wrestler, peter punched, kicked and stamped the playmate to death. Her liver was severely damaged; her skull was fractured and the medical experts compared the injuries to a fall from the top of the house. Peter was tried in court as an adult and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole when he is 38.

“What we are dealing with is a new kind of childhood criminal. They are starting younger and they know what they are doing. They won’t think twice about killing” said the Florida State District Adam Emmit. The state of California alone registered 312 homicides committed by minors which must of them were gun-related.

Discussion questions for your comment:

Peter claimed he was pretending to be a wrestler. Could he be saying the truth?

Is it really possible that a 13 year-old boy could intentionally kill a young girl?

Are children the same as they have always been, or are they really different these days?

What do you think about the punishment was given to Peter?