Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Homework - Teen stabbed in Queens

Read the story. Watch the video. Answer the questions.


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Story:
Queens (1/18/2011) - Police in Queens are investigating a stabbing that sent a 16-year-old boy to the hospital Tuesday.
It happened in front of a Subway restaurant near 75th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard in Kew Gardens Hills.


Police sources say 15 to 20 high school students were involved in a fight that spilled out to the street.


"Chairs were being thrown out. My boss' car was parked here. Mine is here. I came outside to see what was the cause of that. I just thought it was just kids goofing off. But, by the time everybody stopped running, one kids fell down over there in the snow and was bleeding over there," said one witness.


The Department of Education tells NY1 the victim is a student at John Bowne High School.


He was taken to New York Hospital Queens.


His injuries are not life-threatening.


Questions:
1. Where did this story take place?
2. When did this story take place?
3. How old was the boy that was stabbed?
4. How many students were involved in the fight?
5. What school did the boy go to?
6. What hospital was he taken to?




Info from NY1, pic from http://blog.mpl.org/

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