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Thursday, November 18, 2010

8th GRADE PERSUASIVE ESSAY Due Friday Nov 19th

Decide what you believe about the uranium mining debate in the Grand Canyon.  Write a persuasive essay with facts to back up your beliefs.  5 paragraphs.

Background about Uranium Mining

Uranium Mining:  World Nuclear Association (I keep getting an error message on this site so I'm not sure if it's our school network or their site not working correctly)

Uranium Exploration Near the Grand Canyon

Report: Grand Canyon Threatened by Approval of Uranium Mining Activities

More articles from Google search

8th GRADE EXTRA CREDIT:

Include information from these articles (which were not given in class):

Health Dangers of Uranium Mining

Uranium Mining Legislation (current events article released Nov 17, 2010)

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