English Assignment for June 18

What happens to old school buses when they can no longer safely carry kids to school? Most go to junkyards to be converted to scrap metal. But a few of the old vehicles find new lives—in the center of Africa. Most of those buses end up on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo).

This map shows the location of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Your assignment:

The article will be distributed to you in class.

Click here to access the questions that go with the article.

What you will be graded on:

1. You must read and annotate the article. Here's an example of what annotation looks like on a written article. You should have margin notes, you should underline main ideas of each paragraph, and you should circle words you don't know the meaning of.
2. Your answers on the questions (the link is above). Free response questions should be at a 3 or 4 level to earn full credit.

If you finish early:

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