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Show Page 6A Lakeside Review Wednesday, May 22, 1985 Man on the Street Interview Is it Beneficial for Utah to Host the Winter Olympics? Jim Carnes is a member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, who will recommend a site to the International Olympic Committee. We are delighted your elected officials continue to pursue bringing the Olympics to Salt Lake City. The facilities are outstanding, 'and it will be difficult to decide The Lakeside Review asked several residents and a national figure whether it would be beneficial to the state to host upcoming Winter Olympic games. The issue is coming before the Utah people now in a poll conducted by the Winter Olympics Feasibility Study Committee. Salt Lake City may be targeted as the host, with events spread from Provo to Ogden. which city will host the event, he said. Cities competing for the chance include the Lake Tahoe-Ren- o area. The U.S. has a good chance to host the worldwide event, he said. Countries in Europe are also competing to host the Winter Olympics in 1992. He recently visited the Cottonwood Complex in Salt Lake City, Snowbird, Cougar Stadium in Provo on the Brigham Young University campus, Snowbasin, and Weber State College Stadium. Craig Barkas, a Sunset resident stationed at Hill Air Force Base, a skiing center before I moved said sure. Having the Olympics here, but now that I know how. benefihere (the U.S.) would be good it is Im sure I'll be back to ski after I move away. cial to all the states. In particular it would be beneficial to Utah if Judy Tutorow, a Layton resident, said she would really enjoy they did it like they did in L.A. Despite the costs involved, I having the Olympics here, and I think they might be able to make think it would be good for the arout over the long run because ea. My husband and I were just more people would be attracted talking about that the other night, and we both felt it would be a to Utah to ski. I was naive about Utah being good thing. I think they would be JUDY TUTOROW able to come out ahead. Carol Von Barnekow, a Layton Hills Mall employee, said yes, of course. Thats a dumb question. I think right now Salt Lake City is a great place to live and it would be great for the area. How could it not be good it's a growth thing. It would be good, big, marvelous, exciting, now, wonderful. It would be awful to have the Letter to the Editor Great Books Falls Short Dear Editor: To gather information and come up with results is education in its simplest form. It is active learning which will inspire students to thirst for knowledge. This is a quote from a recent editorial in the Lakeside Review applauding the Junior Great Books program. I would like to share with you some education have derived from studying and gathering information about the Junior Great Books program. I began to question this program more strongly when the JGB leaders manual instructed that the evaluative question is the least valuable question. In an art class in which I had been inspired to truly thirst for knowledge it was the evaluative question that was most important. My search to find out how children think led me to Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive domains. Bloom divided thinking skills into six categories: 1. Knowledge 2. Comprehension, which in eludes translation, interpre- ' tation, and extrapolation 3. Application 4. Analysis 5. Synthesis 6. Evaluation According to Bloom, evaluation is the highest form of thinking. Bloom taught that each category is sequential and cumulative, meaning that to reach the next category, one must know how to think in the previous category. Each thinking skill adds upon the previous skill until one arrives at the ability to evaluate. To be able to evaluate, one must know how to think literally, then interpretively, then creatively, and finally, critically, i.e., evalua-tivel1 , ; y. Junior Great Books falls short of thinking both creatively and critically because the most desired question which the children are directed to ask or answer falls somewhere in the 2 category of Comprehension. The children are asked to interpret what the au- - thor wants them to think (Handbook on Interpretive Reading and Discussion, the Junior Great Books Leaders Manual) and to justify their answer by what the author has written. This is Socrates method of thinking which has been around for centuries. Philosophy has its place in the world, but I want my children to be actively doing, not just sitting on some hillside thinking. I get angry when Im told that Socratic Thinking will solve todays problems and that it will teach children to be more tolerant. (Why didnt it save ancient Greece?) Most parents want their children to think logically, but I also want my children to think creatively, which is to break down materials into their component parts and then put the parts back together to form a new whole. This ability, I feel will solve todays problems. Secondly, I want my children to think evaluatively, which is to be able to judge the value of material for a given purpose. To me, the evaluative skill brings the heart and feeling into balance with the head and mind. This coming together of head and heart will bring about the tolerance your editorial suggested is needed in todays world and yet is lacking in the Junior Great Books program. Teresa T. Bowman Kaysville Great Books Program Valuable to write a rebuttal to the criticism of the program. After much work and several drafts, we have formed our final letter, which you see here. Review Editor: We, the students Lay-to- id. Persons involved in condemning the program seem to feel that for themselves. We believe children need to be taught to analyze and interpret what they read, so they will be able to negotiate all points of an issue, and subsequently form an unbiased opinion. However, the mental processes involved in analytical reading are not studied intensely in the regular school curriculum, and therefore must be taught in some other form. The program adopted by many the Great Books Proschools is effective in teaching gram this. opinions with no help from parents or other adults. The programs critics apparently disagree with this practice, perhaps fearing students exposure to such social problems as violence, peer cruelty, profanity, and suicide. We understand that young peoples minds may be influenced by these elements, but the issues brought out from the literature are not taught to be accepted blindly as is, but are taught to show the students that those problems do exist in reality and must be acknowledged. Another criticism was that all literature should be positive and have happy endings in order to teach students about high values. It seems to us that not all experiences in life are positive and end happily. Part of learning about life through literature is thinking for oneself and dealing with all elements that life pres- ents. How will children learn to deal with all moral issues and problems in life is only faced with the positive aspects? If children should always rely on their parents and teachers to make analytical decisions for them, they will rely on the opinions of others instead of thinking for themselves and making a rational decision when moral problems occur. In short, the Junior Great Books Program allows students to interpret and analyze their society and the conflicting moral values it sometimes presents much better than any other program weve experienced. Students who are taught how to think for themselves are valuable attributes to society. Their analytical abilities wont predispose them to question authority, but instead, they will learn to examine, refine, and communicate their ideas more ef- . Another aspect of the program is that it presents moral problems which the students examine through interpretive reading and open discussion. In other words, the students read a story containing a moral dilemma; they formulate ideas on how to solve the problem, and through discussion as a group, come to independent . conclusions. Some people seem to ficiently. think that it is harmful to teach North Layton Jr. High writing class children to think for themselves and to formulate their own (19 student names on file) saying the other day that having the Olympics here would help us. Ill bet it will bring in a lot of people to the area, and we have so many things to see here that it should pay for itself. Most of the it, she said. Leonard Blackner, of Layton money in the state is made on resident and Roy barbershop tourism isnt it? I know that anytime we have owner, said he thinks it would be something in the area that brings very beneficial to the area. It might even help me. The people here it helps my business girl that works with me was just and I make money. taxpayers have to pay for it, but I'm always in favor of things that are big, new and wonderful. People that have money in Salt Lake should follow through with Guest Column Honor Veterans Memorial Day DARLENE MIX Special to the Lakeside Review No one knows exactly when Memorial Day was first observed, but many think it began during the Civil War, when some Southern women chose May 30 to decorate soldiers graves. This custom continues as Americans decorate graves, in honor and in memory of the dead of all wars. servicemen I -- The parade marched the remaining three miles to the city cemetery. At the entrance, a salute took place, after which American flags were placed on the graves of veterans. A shot could then be heard ringing out over the grave of the last buried veteran. Cemetery. Growing up in a small city in t, the annual Memothe rial Day parade was a special event very few residents missed. The parade consisted of a band, veterans, and different organizations all carrying American flags. The parade marched to the end of the business district, where the monument of a soldier stood. mid-wes- Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is a time for remembrance, a time to decorate all graves, and a day to honor all veterans of all wars, for serving and protecting even with their lives, the American land, the American people. Lakeside Letter Policy Set The Lakeside Review encourages readers to submit letters to the editor. Content of letters should address issues of interest to our readership throughout north Davis County and in Roy. Letters should be typed, and must include the name and telephone number of the writer. Shorter letters are more likely to be published. Long letters will be subject to editing at double-s- paced, the discretion of Lakeside Review editorial staff. Letters will also be edited, if necessary, to meet journalistic standards of good taste. Libelous material will be deleted. With few exceptions, letters must be accompanied by the writer's name when published. Send all letters to the Lakeside Review, 2146 N. Main, Suite 526, Layton, Ut., 84041. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. We are the ninth-grad- e students of North Layton Junior High's writing class, ranging in age from 14 to 14. We were studying logical fallacies and letters to the editor when we came across the article against the Great Books Program in the Lakeside Review. We were incensed bv the fact that there is so much criticism against what we feel is an essentially valuable program. After reading some of the material used bv the program. Dr. Wendell Wiser's analysis paper against the program, and numerous other newspaper articles and editorials concerning Great Books, we felt that we should voice our opinion. We discussed our research as a class and decided Business Program Right on T arget new program making grant money available to help area businesses develop new ideas is a step in the right direction to increase the tax Davis base for rapidly-growin- g County. The Small Business Innovation Program is being promoted by the Private Industry Council of Davis County and county commissioners to encourage new ideas to bring There a wreath was placed at the foot of the statue. The parade proceeded to the bridge overlooking the river, which flowed throughthe city. There a tribute with a 21 gun salute took place. A wreath was then thrown over the bridge into the water in honor of those who died at sea. 21-g- One of the chief National Memorial Day commemorations takes place in Arlington National Editorial A LEONARD BLACKNER CAROL VON BARNEKOW ed n of North Junior Highs writing class, would like to address the controversy over the Great Books program. We have been examining the issues of the attack on the program at Burton Elementary in Davis District very carefully, and we feel that the arguments against the program are not entirely val- Great Books teaches profanity, immorality, and most dangerous of all, it teaches students to think ' successful business to the area. Grants will be given, rather than loans, and payback will be in taxes generated for the county by the business. Bright ideas deserve to be recognized and encouraged. 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