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What connections to society or other issues do you make? What further reading might someone who read your book want to do to understand more about the issues raised?

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Research the setting of your novel. Remember to consider time, place, and location. Post information that would help a reader to visual and understand where & when the events in your story take place.

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Directions: Collect, research, and compile a Padlet with your Book Club group of multi media information to help build your understanding and knowledge of the time period in which your book club book takes place. As well as how the setting and time period impact the way in which the story is told or the events that happened.

For each piece you add, write a 2-3 sentence explanation of what this piece shows or why you included this in your padlet.

Examples of various media to include on your Padlet: Articles, videos, podcasts, interviews, images, maps, graphs, charts, diagrams, documentaries, etc.

Padlets MUST BE SHARED with your teacher.

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Research your author. What biographical information about your author may help us understand why he or she wrote this text?

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Research the historical context/time period of your novel. Post  important information that will help you understand the context for the social issue or event(s) occurring in your novel.

Things to think about:
-Major events
- Major Laws/Bills/ Decisions created/passed during this time
- Influence of Pop Culture
- Societal Norms

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The story takes palce in Washington state near seattle, but in flashbacks to her siblings and her mothers early life the story takes place in Mexico.

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Mexico Bordering Countries:

Belize, Guatemala, United States of America

Regional Maps:

Map of North America, World Map

Where is Mexico?

Map of Mexico States

This is a political map of Mexico and Central America which shows the countries of the region along with capital cities, major cities, islands, oceans, seas, and gulfs. The map is a portion of a larger world map created by the Central Intelligence Agency using Robinson Projection. You can also view the full pan-and-zoom CIA World Map as a PDF document.

Google Earth is a free program from Google that allows you to explore satellite images showing the cities and landscapes of Mexico and all of North America in fantastic detail. It works on your desktop computer, tablet, or mobile phone. The images in many areas are detailed enough that you can see houses, vehicles and even people on a city street. Google Earth is free and easy-to-use.

Mexico is one of nearly 200 countries illustrated on our Blue Ocean Laminated Map of the World. This map shows a combination of political and physical features. It includes country boundaries, major cities, major mountains in shaded relief, ocean depth in blue color gradient, along with many other features. This is a great map for students, schools, offices and anywhere that a nice map of the world is needed for education, display or decor.

If you are interested in Mexico and the geography of North America, our large laminated map of North America might be just what you need. It is a large political map of North America that also shows many of the continent's physical features in color or shaded relief. Major lakes, rivers, cities, roads, country boundaries, coastlines and surrounding islands are all shown on the map.

Mexico Cities:

Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Cabo San Lucas, Campeche, Cancun, Casas Grandes, Chetumal, Chihuahua, Chilpancingo, Ciudad Acuna, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Obregon, Ciudad Victoria, Coatzacoalcos, Colima, Cuauhtemoc, Cuernavaca, Culiacan, Delicias, Durango, Ensenada, Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Guaymas, Guerrero Negro, Hermosillo, Hidalgo del Parral, Iguala, Jalapa, Jimenez, La Paz, Lazaro Cardenas, Leon, Loreto, Los Mochis, Manzanillo, Matamoros, Mexicali, Mazatlan, Merida, Mexico City, Monclova, Monterrey, Morelia, Morro Redondo, Nogales, Nuevo Laredo, Oaxaca, Pachuca, Poza Rica, Puebla, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Penasco, Puerto Vallarta, Queretaro, Salina Cruz, Saltillo, San Felipe, San Luis Potosi, San Quintin, Santa Rosalia, Tampico, Tepic, Tlaxcala, Tijuana, Toluca, Torreon, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Veracruz, Villahermosa, and Zacatecas.

Mexico States:

Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatan, and Zacatecas. Distrito Federal (the area including and surrounding Mexico City) is a federal district.

Mexico Locations:

Bahia Blanco, Bahia de San Jorge, Bahia la Ventana, Bahia Santa Maria, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of California, Gulf of Mexico, Lago Catemaco, Lago de Chapala, Laguna Agua Brava, Laguna de Pueblo Viejo, Laguna de San Andres, Laguna de Tamiahua, Laguna Inferior, Laguna Madre, Pacific Ocean, Presa Alvaro Obregon, Presa de la Angostura, Presa de la Boquilla, Presa Miguel Aleman, Presa Nezahualcoyotl, Rio Balsas, Rio Conchos, Rio Grande and Rio Verde.

Mexico Natural Resources:

Mexico has fossil fuel deposits which include petroleum and natural gas. Some of the country's metal resources are copper, gold, lead, silver, and zinc. Timber is also a natural resource for Mexico.

Mexico Natural Hazards:

The country of Mexico has volcanic activity and destructive earthquakes which occur in the central and southern parts of the country. Other natural hazards include tsunamis along the Pacific coast, and hurricanes on the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean coasts.

Mexico Environmental Issues:

Environmental issues for Mexico are numerous. Regarding the land, the issues include: deforestation; widespread erosion; the deterioration of agricultural lands; desertification. In addition, the land in the Valley of Mexico is sinking due to the depletion of groundwater. The country has rural to urban migration. This complicates the serious air and water pollution in the nation's capital and urban centers along the United States-Mexico border. Raw sewage and industrial effluents are polluting the rivers in urban areas. In addition, the natural freshwater resources are scarce and polluted in the north. These resources are also of poor quality or inaccessible in the center and extreme southeast of Mexico. The country has a scarcity of hazardous waste disposal facilities. Note: The government considers the lack of clean water and deforestation national security issues.

Copyright information: The images on this page were composed by Angela King and Brad Cole and are copyright by Geology.com. These images are not available for use beyond our websites. If you would like to share them with others please link to this page. The satellite image was produced using Landsat data from NASA.

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Belize, Guatemala, United States of America Map of North America, World Map This is a political map of Mexico and Central America which shows the countries of the region along with capital cities, major cities, islands, oceans, seas, and gulfs. The map is a portion of a larger world map created by the Central Intelligence Agency using Robinson Projection.

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gaby rodriquez was 17 y/o high school student when she released the pregnancy project. she wrote about what it was like to become an accidental media sensation and wrote of how society treated her differently once they found out she was "pregnant". this is her and her mother, the lady who inspired her project.

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A person would have to read the story to understand the true history of Gabys family, and how most of the women in her family were single mothers.

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the story took place way back when her mom was living in mexico sharing custody of gabys half siblings then fast forwarded to when gabby was living in Toppenish, Washington, doing her project on how people change

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When high school senior Gaby faked a pregnancy as a project to challenge stereotypes, she also changed her life. Discover this compelling memoir from an inspirational teenage activist, now a Lifetime movie.

It started as a school project, but it turned into so much more.

Growing up, Gaby Rodriguez was often told she would end up a teen mom. After all, her mother and her older sisters had gotten pregnant as teenagers; from an outsider's perspective, it was practically a family tradition. Gaby had ambitions that didn't include teen motherhood. But she wondered: how would she be treated if she fulfilled others' expectations? Would everyone ignore the years she put into being a good student and see her as just another pregnant teen statistic with no future? These questions sparked Gaby's high school senior project: faking her own pregnancy to see how her family, friends, and community would react. What she learned changed her life forever...and made international headlines in the process.

In The Pregnancy Project, Gaby details how she was able to fake her own pregnancy, hiding the truth from even her siblings and boyfriend's parents, and reveals all that she learned from the experience. But more than that, Gaby's story is about fighting stereotypes, and how one girl found the strength to come out from the shadow of low expectations to forge a bright future for herself.

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Amazon.com: The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir: 9781442446236: Rodriguez, Gaby, Glatzer, Jenna: Books

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The story takes place in the early 2010s and in flashbacks to Gabys mother the story takes place in the 1990s with Gabys other siblings.

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Gaby Rodriguez made national headlines in 2011, she was born March 26, 1993. that time period was much stricter and more judgmental compared to modern days.

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Made National headlines in 2011 as a seventeen-year-old she had faked a pregnancy for her highschool project. This inspired a movie and a book both known as "The Pregnancy Project"

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the pregnancy project takes place in Seattle, Washington. throughout the beginning of the story the setting varies as she speaks of her childhood and her families life prior to her own.

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This book switches between two setting. in present time Gaby is located right outside the city of the seattle in the united states. While in the flashbacks from the mothers stories they are in mexico.

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The time period is modern-day specifically early 2010. I got this from her parents driving cars, going to family court, paying child support.

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Gaby Rodriguez was 17 when she made national headlines. Her school project is what gained her instant fame, the project consisted of gaby faking a pregnancy at the young age of 17. She did this to see how people would treat her and how people would react.

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Someone would have to read the book to understand partially what Gaby went through but the only way to fullt understand is if you were Gaby. The things she went through and the trama she had to live and encounter is incredible

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Parents of teens know how tricky it is to keep their kids physically safe while balancing their need for greater independence, but when it comes to keeping them safe online, it can be even trickier.

Horror stories of social media harassment and exposure to explicit content leading to teen suicide or even murder abound. With 91 percent of U.S. teens accessing the Internet via a mobile device that allows them to be online anywhere and at all times of day, parents are desperately looking for ways to protect teens from online predators, bullies, and their own poor decisionmaking.

Most apps sold to promote teen safety online focus on giving parents control over the phone, rather than helping teens learn how to navigate the web safely, a study finds.

Researchers looked at 74 Android mobile apps and found that 89 percent of the security features on the apps focus on parental control by blocking and monitoring teens' online activities. Only 11 percent support teens' ability to regulate their own behavior. In other words, most of the apps don't encourage parents and teens to talk about their shared social media values. And that may be a missed opportunity.

"The most apparent finding from our results is that developers assume that parents are the end users of mobile online safety apps, not teens," says lead researcher Pamela Wisniewski, a former postdoctoral scholar in information sciences and technology at Penn State who is now an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Central Florida.

"Teens have somehow been overlooked within the design process because these apps clearly violate their privacy and assume the only thing that can do to protect themselves from online risk is make an SOS call to a trusted adult," Wisniewski said in an email to Shots.

The most surprising finding? That ReThink, the only app that gave teens a bigger role in online risk reduction, was designed by a 15-year-old girl, Wisniewski says. It's designed like those drunk texting apps that temporarily block contacts (like exes) to save us from sending ill-advised screeds at the end of a long night, but this one helps teens "rethink" before sending a potentially hurtful message.

Wisniewski and her colleagues set out to reverse engineer the values in the design of existing mobile apps to try to understand what they offer.

Developmental psychology says the Holy Grail of parenting teens is striking a balance between parental supervision and teen autonomy, and that teens learn coping skills when parents are actively engaged yet mindful of teens' need for independence.

That general theory is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which issued an online tool this past October to help families develop a media plan to create goals and rules around media use.

Jenny Radesky, a developmental pediatrician at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and lead author of the AAP's policy statement on media use for young children told Shots last fall that a printout of a plan is not going to solve every family's problems about how much screen time kids should get or whether devices should be banned from the bathroom. But it will help families lay out values in advance, rather than reacting to the latest new online challenge.

Dr. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, says the AAP doesn't want to paint all digital media as bad. In fact the opportunities for teens to find a supportive community and be exposed to new ideas are some of the positives. But parents must be actively involved in discussions with teens about their values.

"They [parents] also must model good online behavior themselves," Chassiakos says, like participating in "media-free meals," making time for exercise, and putting the device away before bed.

For their assessment of the teen mobile safety apps, the Penn State researchers developed a framework they call Teen Online Safety Strategies. TOSS weighs parents' desire to monitor, restrict and mediate teen activities with teens' need to learn self-awareness, impulse control and how to cope with risk.

Of the apps they looked at, 49 percent had interactive interfaces only for parents, and 49 percent had interfaces for both parents and teens, although the teens' interfaces were "extremely limited," the study says.

Forty-four percent of all the apps' features included monitoring, 43 percent included restriction and 2 percent focused on education. Meanwhile, only 4 percent of the apps' features helped teens cope with risk, 2 percent focused on teen self-monitoring, and less than 1 percent focused on teen impulse control, according to the study.

It's still early days for mobile monitoring of teenagers. Currently, only 16 percent of parents use monitoring software on their teens' mobile phones, according to a 2016 Pew Research study. More often, parents check websites their teens have visited, monitor their social media profiles by "friending" them, or directly access their accounts - the online version of listening in on phone calls or sitting two rows away at the movies.

Wisniewski hopes her research will lead to other studies that include teens in the design of new mobile online protections.

"As adults, we need to start being more creative rather than trying to put 'governors' on teens' phones to prevent unwanted behaviors," she says. "If we want to help protect teens from online risks, we have to stop assuming that they are the perpetrators and treat them like partners."

Wisniewski and her colleagues will present their paper at the Association for Computing Machinery conference on computer-supported cooperative work and social computing in Portland on Monday.

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To Keep Teens Safe Online, They Need To Learn To Manage Risk

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Parents of teens know how tricky it is to keep their kids physically safe while balancing their need for greater independence, but when it comes to keeping them safe online, it can be even trickier. Horror stories of social media harassment and exposure to explicit content leading to teen suicide or even murder abound.

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Toppenish, Washington is where this take place.  Usually cold in this area and its a six hour flight from here population is about 8,000 people. Gaby and her half siblings lived in mexico then she moved here. The book takes place in this town.

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Gaby Rodriguez was repeatedly told she would end up a teen mom like her mother. As a high school project, she faked her own pregnancy to find out how her community would react. What she learned changed her life, and made international headlines in the process.

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