Wednesday, October 24, 2007

October 24 Journal

Remember that today (midnight) is the last day to submit a missing essay to My Access.

When you are done with this journal, move to Study Island or work on Extra Credit.

Since this is our last day together, I just wanted to let you know that I have been blessed to work with you all over the last 8 weeks and I will miss not seeing you regularly, but I hope you all continue to write. You are all developing your voice and your writing is progressing beautifully. I have been proud to be your teacher and writing partner this quarter.
Remember my motto, "Good. Better. Best. Never let them rest. Until your Good is Better and your Better- Best." I know you will be the Best in everything you do! -Mrs. Machota

And now today's journal...

CITIZENSHIP — Citizenship refers to the duties, rights, conduct and responsibilities of the citizens of a state. To be a good citizen means that we seek the common good for everyone: our family, friends and loved ones; our neighborhood; our community; our city, state, country — even the whole planet. Good citizens participate in the democratic process (voting, jury duty, paying taxes, etc.), obey laws and help take care of the environment.


Answer all three questions today.


  1. How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

  2. What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

  3. Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

37 comments:

Anonymous said...

Answer all three questions today.

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

It interferes with it because you won't be doing goo anymore you will start to be additcted to drugs and you will be reckless.It causes death.Because the more poeple who does it the more people die.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?


bkus how r u a good citizen if u smoke and do illeal stuff dat can get u in prison

Anonymous said...

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

Drug abuse interferes with citizenship and society becuase if your on drugs you wont think aobut the cummunity or other u would just think aobut your self and your drugs .



Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
Im not sure but i think iyt should be illigal because its a bad thing.

Anonymous said...

1.How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

2.What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

3.Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

1.it will help you be drug free.
2.it makes people kill people.
3.because when it was legal people were getting killed.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?


It interfaces because a good citizen does do drugs. If you do drugsit makes the community look bad. Drug abuse is legal because it makes your own punishment.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
Drugs are illegal and taking would be bresking the law.
If take drugs you aill go crazy and you could hurt a loot of people.
Because it hurts a lot of people.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal? It interfere because you cant control your self.It has an effect on society because you only care about your self.It illegal because to many prople are dying.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

It interfers with good citizenship beacause younger kids look a people doing drugs and they follow them.so when they grow up the influence others and brfore you know it our neighboe hood is bad.

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
The negetive effect it has is lots of deaths or sicknesses.

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

I think it is illegal because it messes with our community an siciety. Our schools and different things like that. It turns our good world around into a bad one.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

I that drug abuse is illegal because it impaires your your daily dutties and can have a very harmfful affect on your body.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

beacuse when you take drugs it mesess with your insides.

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

they kill some of your brain cells and helps shut down organs in your body.

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?


it is illegal because some people make it and sell it to young kids in the naborhood. and we have to many people who die from drug use

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

Drugs get them adicted and then they would do anything for them.

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

Drugs turn good citizen into drug adicts.

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

Yes, I do think drug abuse is illegal.

Anonymous said...

Answer all three questions today.

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

1. Drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship because if you dont have good citezenship you will probaly end up doing drugs.

2.The negative abuse on drugs on the society is that people on drug attend on doing bad things to people around them.

3. What I think about doing drugs is it is a terrible thing to do to your body.

Anonymous said...

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
I think that drug abuse is illegal because you can go to jail and spent time in there if ur doin drugs

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
Drug abuse interferes with practicing good citizenship because it is bad for you.Drug abuse is negitive on society because it is illegal, i think it is illegal because it is bad. Also because it is harmful.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

because people say that we are the future and people want us to make a diffierents and don't want other kids making the same mistakes we did.

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
the effect it has on society is maybe the parents have to suffer with the fact that their kids are drug addices at the age 10-14 witch is not good.


Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
because if it wasn't a rule kids would have the freedom to do drugs without getting in troble

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?drug abuse is not good citizenship.

Anonymous said...

Citizenship also contains respect your parents and every other grown up that you are sround. You also gave to respect your peers in wha they do and what they say

1)How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

Drug abuse interferes with practicing good citizenship beacuse it gives little kids bad advice for doing drugs and them thinking it's ok to do them.

2)What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

The negative effects that drug abuse had on our society are that it's bad for our enviornment and it's also bad for the air that we breath.

3)Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

I think drug abuse is illegal because it's bad for people's health, it causes people to get sick half the time. It also causes people to die when they do drugs for the very first time in their ife..

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship? the drug abuse interfers with practicing good citizenship because the kids start to see bade things and they want to start doing to.
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society? The negative drug abuse macke the places look bad and it some times mack people want to do it because they see other people do it. Why do you think drug abuse is illegal? Its illegal because the people start to ackte creasy and they hurt people.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship? Because it makes people act differently toawrd people.

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society? People might start to fight with more poeple.

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal? Because drugs have negitave affects on people and we dont want that.

Anonymous said...

1. if you abuse drugs you could die and lose friends and become mean.
2. people become mad at other people and try and kill them.
3. because many people woukd abuse drugs and die.

Anonymous said...

i think it illgeal because we should not have people smoking any kind of drugs and have them accedently kill themselfes in a car crash or something

Anonymous said...

Answer all three questions today.

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?


It interfears with good citizenship because you can have brain damage and not be able to help out your community now or do good and kind things for the community!!!

The negative effect is people die a lot from doing drugs!!!

It is illegal because the more people do drugs the more people get hurt and die!!!!!

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
becuz when u do drugz dat iz agenst da laws n dat can g3t u to jai.


Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?
i tink drug abuse is illegal because it can kill many people becuz of how ba it affects you.

Anonymous said...

IT INTERFERES WITH PRACTICING GOOD CITIZENSHIP BECAUSE DRUGS ARE BAD.
DRUGS KILL PEOPLE.
IT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE DRUGS COULD KILL YOU.

Anonymous said...

it is bad because it hust u or u may kill u

Anonymous said...

i would not do drug cause if u love ur self and if u love sport and u many not play good cause u took drug

Anonymous said...

1)How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
2)What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
3)Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

One))Drug abuse interferes w/ practicing good citizenship because when you are high(because of drugs), you're not yourself so you can't act or THINK regularly.
Two)) negative affects drugs has on society is that no one can act like themselves and tend to get too happy and then can get angry and upset quickly.
Three))Drug abuse is illegal because of the things drug abuse does to you. =)(=

Anonymous said...

CITIZENSHIP — Citizenship refers to the duties, rights, conduct and responsibilities of the citizens of a state. To be a good citizen means that we seek the common good for everyone: our family, friends and loved ones; our neighborhood; our community; our city, state, country — even the whole planet. Good citizens participate in the democratic process (voting, jury duty, paying taxes, etc.), obey laws and help take care of the environment.


Answer all three questions today.

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?


1.) If you deal with drugs or take drugs then you are not being a good citizen, because you can entoxicate the others around you.

2.) Well.... the elderly would not like it if they found out that every one was doing drugsand that could effect them and could have health affects apon them.

3.) Because it can harm you internaly and set a horrible example for all of the other younger poeple.

Anonymous said...

Because if you do drugs that's not showing citizenship. That some people have to do drugs do to health problems. Because people can kill thereselves.

Anonymous said...

Answer all three questions today.

1. How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

2.What negative effects dose drug abuse have on socity?

3.Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

Drug abuse interfers with it because a lot of people can die from it. From kids dieing and, for them being very sick.I think it os illgal because it is not right to do.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?
What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?
Why do you think drug abuse is illegal?

If you are doing drugs illegally, then you can't be a citizen because you are not obeying the law.
Drug abuse has a bad effect on society because if one person in the community starts doing drugs, then more people will follow, and there will be many deaths.
Drug abuse is illegal because it can hurt you as well as other physically and mentally.

Anonymous said...

You won't be able to do so good in school.You would always want to smoke instead of haing fun with your friends and you might hang out with the wrong people.Yes,I think drug abuse is illegal

Anonymous said...

What negative effect does druds have on society?

It interfers with it because your life would be up then it would be down.

Anonymous said...

How does drug abuse interfere with practicing good citizenship?

What negative effects does drug abuse have on society?

Why do you think drug abuse is illegal

Drug abuse interferes with good
citizenship because when you use
drugs you tend to not know your doing

Anonymous said...

I have been proud to be your teacher and writing partner this quarter. Remember my motto, "Good. Better. Best. Never let them rest. Until your Good is Better and your Better- Best." I know you will be the Best in everything you do!You are so my best teacher in world but I go miss you so much.

Anonymous said...

I think drug abuse is illegal because kids can died from t is smoking. And that is not right, to be smoking and that is why.

Anonymous said...

The negative affect of drug abuse in our society is like when you walk around in your society and you see that people are selling drugs, then the yonger people are thinking that is ok to do. BUT IT IS NOT OK to SELL DRUGS. If u sometimes do drugs then you probably cant stop sometimes. So what ever you do you should never do drugs and it is effecting our society a lot. So DONT DO DRUGS.

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