Investigate an issue related to genetic engineering, energy, working landscapes or water quality. Write several articles that define the issue, describe the different views on the issue and explain why people should be interested in this issue. Find the information on the issues at the Iowa Public Teleivision website, http://www.iptv.org/exploremore/.

Concepts

creative writing, genetic engineering, journalism, reporters, water quality

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Additional Tags

journalists, working landscape, writing genres, writing process, pbs, expository writing, persuasive writing

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional

• This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RST.6-8.9 RST.11-12.7 RI.8.9 RH.11-12.8 RI.8.7