The critique published online this past week grew out of a homework assignment.

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She unfolded it to make sure it wasn't a homework assignment.

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Inside was an assortment of fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a homework assignment sheet from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, among other items.

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He also gives them a homework assignment for a future meeting and encourages them to come back a few times a year, he says.

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Editor s note: If you are planning to use the news story that this discussion-activity is based on for a homework assignment, please write the URL on the board and have your students copy it.

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Congress has just decided to send the titans of the auto industry back home with empty hands and a big homework assignment - come up with a business plan to get the big three, Chrysler, Ford, and GM, back in the black.

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When the backpack was later found, inside it was a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class Tsarnaev was taking, the FBI said.

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According to the affidavit, it contained the emptied fireworks, a jar of Vaseline and a UMass-Dartmouth homework assignment sheet from a class in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is currently enrolled.

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