Topic of the Week 1: Driving and Texting
Cell phones and texting may be great ways to communicate, but growing evidence reveals the dangers of people texting and using cell phones while driving. Because of increases in accidents involving cell phones, many states are revising their laws pertaining to whether drivers may use cell phones.
For this week’s blog, please read the following three articles. Then, in approximately 340 words explain whether you think Iowa should change its laws pertaining to cell phones and driving. If so, how should the laws be changed and why? If you do not think the laws should be changed, explain why. Make sure you refer to the evidence presented in the articles and give specific examples to illustrate your statements. Appropriate personal examples may also work.
Please post your initial response to this topic before class on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Return to the blog and respond in approximately 100 words to at least one other student’s posting by class on Thursday, October 1, 2009.
Driving Us to Distraction
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1916291,00.html
Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817856,00.html
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1913349,00.html
Taken from "Parrott AP English Language." Web. 14 Sept. 2009.
