RI2./RSHT2. Science/Language Arts Article

Learning about science is more and more crucial to understand what's going on around you. I am continually amazed at how often I am reading the news and something comes up that would be really confusing to me without the science classes that I took as a student.

So, the science department and I thought it a good idea to plan some joint readings to show the important connections between our disciplines. This particular article, about a proposed rebuild of a bridge right over the New Jersey border in southern New York state, requires a basic knowledge of how sound waves travel in order to understand fully. Click on the link to read the article, and then practice the "chain of main ideas" technique in order to create a summary. Think about what you have learned in science about sound waves in order to understand the seriousness of the problem of protecting the fish underwater from the construction noise.

Important Note: Since this is a news article, and so keeps its paragraphs extremely short, which makes our "Chain of Main Ideas" too much work. So, you should simply group the sentences together and remake full paragraphs by summarizing once every five sentences or so. Never be afraid to alter your tools when your intelligence suggests this.