What we did

Today we finished a  few more touches to our littering display poster. the sixth graders decided that Rehana and Quitze would read the speech, and that Vaughn would defend the bill. The fifth graders finished the poster and added inspirational advice to the sixth graders. we winded everything down by eating pizza and talking about our bill, how to defend it and how to counter-attack others. Our homework is to find the sources of everything on our bill.

Bringing it all together

in class today (4/16/09) we started thinking of ideas of what to do on our poster. The 6th graders rehearsed there speechs for our meeting at packer. And we designed our poster. 

Noah

Majora Carter Visits

The MCS Model Congress group had the pleasure of spending an hour with Majora Carter last week. Students asked her questions about her motivation and inspiration to be an activist and she asked them about their dreams. Majora shared anecdotes about her work in the South Bronx, nationally and internationally. 

Draft of speech - Add comments and edits

The Act to Abolish Littering

Have you ever been walking along the street, when the person in front of you drops a Taco Bell wrapper a few meters away from a garbage can on the corner? If so have you said anything? Streets all over America are covered with garbage and other discards.
Smokers in a car are just throwing cigarette buds out of their cars. Cigarettes smell horrible in people’s mouths, they don’t smell any better when they are our sidewalks. Many smokers aren’t quite aware about how critical smoking is to our streets, our world, and more importantly, our health. Not only are they bad for our environment, the people who smoke them also send toxins into the atmosphere, and thus killing nature.
Cigarettes end up in storm drains and end up and contaminate our drinking water. Cigarettes also attract vermin, and who wants them around? When you drop your discards on the beach, they get swept into the tide and kill plenty of marine life, especially species of fish. Seven billion tons of different varieties of litter enter the world’s oceans every year.
Litter causes various cancers, birth defects, learning disabilities, mutation, and immune system problems. Littering may seem not important to the people who do it at the time.....

Sneak peak at some questions for our special guest next week!!!!!!

How does littering effect global warming?

What inspired you to start public speaking?

What consequences do you think are appropriate for people that litter?

Did your childhood effect your becoming an activist?

Was there anyone in your life who inspired you to work in activism?

At what age did you start being interested in activism?

Today we explored the effects, causes and solutions of littering. We explored the hudson river and important example of the drastic effects littering can result in. Our solutions represent and important intervention in a usually taboo topic.      

Arielle De Bono.

Third week

Today we made final  amendments to our bill. Then we surfed the internet for facts and support of the bill. something we learned today is that all the litter you drop in the rivers and on the beach gets swept in with the tide and kills thousands of fish. 

-Kai and Quitze