● We are going to take a look back at
2021 which has been a rough year for
How did 2021 affect both you and your
family?
What are your five favorite memories from
2021?
What are your least favorite memories of
2021?
many. We will do so, by looking at
Time magazine covers that depict
what took place each month of 2021.
● Although this assignment doesn’t
seem hefty, it will take time to read
through each article and paraphrase
what took place that month according
to each article.
● Your paraphrasing should be at least
5 sentences long as a minimum.
Directions, click on the following link and
pick ONE Time Magazine cover to highlight
for each month
https://time.com/vault/year/2021/. You will
need to click on “web version” on each cover
to read the article.
● In each box below you will do the
following:
● If it’s a question, answer the question
fully
● For each month, paste the picture of
the cover you chose and provide your
paraphrasing.
● This will be the first thing to go into
your second semester grade, so take
your time and follow ALL directions.
The only thing that affected me in 2021 was
doing school on zoom until the end of last
school year other than that 2021 was a pretty
normal year for me and I actually did more
than what I’ve done in prior years.
1. Getting to go back to pro sports
games
2. Getting drivers license
3. Starting senior year
4. Reuniting with old friends
5. Having covid restrictions dropped
during summer
1. All of February
2. Some family issues with dad that
eventually got resolved
3. The passing of great uncle Paul
4. Covid restrictions from Jan-May
Lets take a look at each of the 2021 covers. ● For the answer to each of your
Remember to pick one for each month. questions, you must also try to answer
Provide and image and paraphrasing with a minimum of five sentences.

January 2021 Image:

How Trump’s Effort to Steal the Election
Tore Apart the GOP—and the Country

Paraphrasing: This is talking about the

storming of the US capitol in January of 2021.
“We will never give up, we will never
concede!” President Trump told the crowd of
supporters he had summoned to Washington
on Jan. 6. They heard him and obeyed. In his
final attempt to overturn the election, Trump
forced dozens of Republican lawmakers into
objecting to the certification of Joe Biden’s
victory on Jan. 6, forcing partisans to take
sides on his final challenge to democracy and
the Constitution.

February 2021 Image:

How President Biden Handles a Divided
America Will Define His Legacy
 Paraphrasing: On Jan. 20, Joe Biden put his
hand on a bible and vowed to uphold the
Constitution as the 46th President of the
United States. “We must end this uncivil war,”
said the new President, “that pits red against
blue, rural vs. urban, conservative vs. liberal.”
Biden realizes this. “Every disagreement
doesn’t have to be cause for total war,” he
said in his Inaugural Address. “And we must
reject the culture in which facts themselves
are manipulated and even manufactured.”
Joe Biden may never unify America. That
may not even be possible in a nation so riven
by disinformation and delusion.

March 2021: Image:

These Mothers Wanted to Care for Their
Kids and Keep Their Jobs. Now They’re
Suing After Being Fired.
 Paraphrasing: Within days Lauren Martinez
was out of a job. “I didn’t know what law had
been violated­or if anything had been
violated,” she says. “It just felt so wrong to
me.” In July, she filed a lawsuit claiming that
her former employer broke federal law in
refusing to grant her leave and firing her. She
had asked to work from home but told her, “If
you cannot come in due to childcare … the
position is vacated. Meaning you no longer
have a job here.”

April 2021: Image:

The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of
Society. Now It’s the Climate’s Turn
 Paraphrasing: When COVID-19 hit, the
climate conversation at first took a back seat
as hospital beds filled. But after a while the
talk grew. Crucially, a slew of initiatives apart
from Biden’s infrastructure package seek to
address the economic costs of climate
change. The Florida area is known as “an
arena of global power and competition.” In
these visions, climate change is taken for
granted and we are all left to play a game of
survival of the fittest.

May 2021: Image:

George Floyd’s Family Reacted to the
Verdict With an Uncontrollable Cry. That
Sound Echoes Through Black America
 Paraphrasing: 11 months after George Floyd
death on April 20th 2021 Hennepin County
Judge Peter Cahill found former Minneapolis
officer Derek Chaven guilty of murder. There
was relief filled with shock and pain. As two
additional guilty verdicts followed after, the
screams became more confident, more
affirmational and appreciative of what a jury
of 12 Americans had done. They had, for the
first time in Minnesota history, convicted a
white police officer of murdering a Black man
while on duty.

June 2021: Image:

The Pandemic Revealed How Much We
Hate Our Jobs. Now We Have a Chance to
Reinvent Work
 Paraphrasing: For so much of life people
work long hours to support their families.
Then the pandemic shutdown hit, and they,
like millions of others, found their world
upended. Britt was briefly furloughed. Kari,
31, had to quit to care for their infant son. She
has now found a new job and a new love for
gardening. Today, both have quit their old
jobs and made a sharp pivot: they opened a
landscaping business together.

July 2021: Image:

Naomi Osaka: ‘It’s O.K. Not to Be O.K.’
 Paraphrasing: In July Naomi Osaka took an
unexpected journey she was not expecting.
She said she learned a couple of key
lessons. The lesson was that you can never
please everyone. Lesson 2 everyone either
suffers from issues related to their mental
health or knows someone who does. There
can be moments for any of us where we are
dealing with issues behind the scenes. Each
of us as humans is going through something
on some level.

August 2021: Image:

Four Civilian Astronauts. Three Days in
Orbit. One Giant Leap. Meet the
Inspiration4 Crew
 Paraphrasing: Jared Isaacman almost died at
10,000 ft., back in 2011. He was flying closely
alongside three others, all in L-39 fighter jets,
tearing along at 460 m.p.h. over the desert
southwest of Las Vegas. “When you survive
it, you can joke about it later,” Isaacman says.
He went to space on Sep. 15 2021 The
mission, dubbed Inspiration4, will mark the
first time an all-civilian, non-governmental
crew has taken to orbit. “I could have just
invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and
we would have had a great time and come
back and had a bunch of cocktails,” Isaacman
says. “Instead, we wanted to bring in
everyday people and energize everyone else
around the idea of opening up spaceflight to
more and more of us.”

September 2021: Image:

From Teachers to Custodians, Meet the
Educators Who Saved A Pandemic School
Year
 Paraphrasing: 2020 was a tough year in the
education field as schools had to find a way
to go on. Here is the story of how one
woodshop teacher helped a school year go
on. Andrew Williams had a front-row seat to
the trials of teaching young learners virtually
and noticed how many children were working
from one crowded kitchen table with their
siblings. “He thought, '' We're not going to
learn this way. `` We're going to be like this
for a year?” says Williams, a woodshop
teacher at Christopher High School, about 80
miles south of San Francisco. “I’ve got to help
out and do something.” He started by building
a desk for one of his wife’s students, then
heard from other families who couldn’t find
desks for their children, so he made over 50
more and gave them away to those in need.
“They went like hotcakes,” says Williams. “I
was buying the material and building them as
fast as I could.” Williams couldn’t teach his
own students typical woodshop lessons
during remote learning as his class was more
hands-on but he did help others in need.

October 2021: Image:

How Facebook Forced a Reckoning by
Shutting Down the Team That Put People
Ahead of Profits

Paraphrasing: On October 3rd 2021

Facebook's whole platform shutdown. In the
same week that an unrelated systems outage
took Facebook’s services offline for hours and
revealed just how much the world relies on
the company’s suite of products including
WhatsApp and Instagram the revelations
sparked a new round of national
soul-searching. It led some to question how
one company can have such a profound
impact on both democracy and the mental
health of hundreds of millions of people.
Haugen’s documents are the basis for at least
eight new SEC investigations into the
company for potentially misleading its
investors. And they have prompted senior
lawmakers from both parties to call for
stringent new regulations.

November 2021: Image:

John Kerry Is Bringing America Back Into
the Climate Fight
 Paraphrasing: From his first months as
Secretary of State under Obama, Kerry set
out to build a bridge to China on climate while
tensions festered on other matters, putting
the issue at the center of the relationship. In
2014, in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping
and President Barack Obama, with Kerry by
his side, announced agenda-setting plans to
cut emissions, effectively inviting other
countries to get on the same page.

December 2021: Image:

Inside Mississippi’s Last Abortion
Clinic—and the Biggest Fight for Abortion
Rights in a Generation
 Paraphrasing: Anti-abortion activists are
energized. In a normal year, the Pink House
has its share of regular protesters, but ahead
of the December hearing, “abortion tourists,”
as the clinic volunteers call them, have begun
showing up on the sidewalk every day.
Melissa Fowler, chief program officer at the
National Abortion Federation, which tracks
threats to abortion clinics, says she’s heard
from members “who report an escalation in
anti-abortion rhetoric, criminal activities and
the intensity of activities” since last year.

What are you most looking forward to in the I hope to start working and get a job soon this
new year to come (2022)? year.

What are five goals or resolutions you will try 1. Graduate

to accomplish in 2022? 2. Get job
3. Buy car
4. Start college
5. Run more