INPUT ARTICLE: Article: First and foremost, you must not get in the middle of your parents' arguing. It’s understandable to want to stop it, but that’s not your job. They are both adults who will need to work out their issues between one another. If you think one of your parents is in danger, call a relative, a neighbor, or dial 9-1-1 or the emergency services in your area. To limit your involvement in the argument, go outside or some other place in your home. Leave the environment where your parents are fighting until things calm down. For instance, if a fight is brewing in the kitchen downstairs, go upstairs to your bedroom. If your parents start fighting during dinner, ask to be excused and go to another room. It can be tough to hear your parents shouting at one another or calling one another nasty names. Take your mind off the fight by calling your best pal. You might even let them know what’s going on at home and warn them that you might call whenever things become tense. You might choose to talk about the fight or discuss something completely different, such as a TV show or a school event. If you have a stereo in your bedroom, bump up the volume to drown out your parents' fighting. Be sure not to exaggerate this—keep the volume within a moderate level. Or, you might grab a pair of headphones and listen to music from your phone or tablet. If you have another adult family member, such as an aunt or uncle, you might call or text them to let them know about your parents fighting. Do this if you think the fighting is getting out of hand and are worried someone might get hurt. You might say something like, “Uncle Dan, it’s happening again and I don’t know what to do.”

SUMMARY: Stay out of the argument. Get some distance. Call a friend. Listen to music. Tell another trusted adult.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: These methods will also work with similar free software, like Google Slides or OpenOffice Impress, but the button locations and options may vary. You click on text or images to animate.  To select a whole text box, click on the border of the text box. Powerpoint automatically distinguishes text separated by a paragraph or bullet break. If your Powerpoint has no objects to animate, you will need to add some. This is located in the top menu bar and will display a variety of animation options and controls. These are split into 4 categories: entrances, exits, emphasis, and paths. The most recently selected animation will be set to that object and added to the animation pane.  You can click through the animations to see a demonstration and view more animations by scrolling with the arrows on the right of the animations box. Entrance animations will change how an object enters the page. Exit animations will change how an object leaves the page. Emphasis animations will add movement or highlights to bring attention to an object. Paths determine a course of movement for an object on the page. Select an animation effect from the dropdown. If you attempt to add an animation without first clicking “Add Animation” it will replace the existing animation instead of adding to it. This step can be repeated multiple times to add as many animations to an object as you like. This button is located in the “Advanced Animation” section of the “Animation” toolbar and will bring up a panel displaying your selected animations on the right. This can be a useful tool for staying organized when working with multiple animations. Select one of the options from the “Start” dropdown in the “Timing” section on the right of the Animations toolbar: "On mouse click", "After previous" or "With previous".  “On Mouse Click” will hold the animation until you click the mouse. “After Previous” will automatically start the animation after any previous animation (or when the slide appears if there are no other animations) “With Previous” will play the animation at the same time as the previous animation on that slide. Click the up or down arrows next to “Delay”  in the “Timing” section to change the amount of time delay that occurs before an animation takes place. The delay begins after the selected animation action. That is if “On Click” is selected, the delay will start after the click. Click the up or down arrows next to “Duration” in the “Timing section to change the speed of the animation. A higher duration means the animation will move at a slower speed. Use the arrows in the “Timing” section under the “Reorder Animation” header to move an animation earlier or later in the queue. You can also click and drag animation listings in the animation pane. In the Animation Pane, click the down arrow next to an animation and select “Effect Options” from the context menu. Go to the “Effect” tab in the window that appears and choose from the menu under “Enhancements” to select a sound effect from a list or add one manually. Choosing to add a sound manually will open up a window to browse for sound files on your computer, so you will need to have one handy. This button is on the left side of the Animations tab and will run through the animations on the selected slide.

SUMMARY: Open Powerpoint. Click on the object you would like to animate. Go to the "Animations" tab. Select the animation you would like. Click “Add Animation” to add extra animations to an object. Click “Animation pane” (optional). Select an activation option for the animation. Adjust the animation delay. Adjust the animation duration. Reorder animations. Add a sound effect to an animation. Click “Preview”.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: To brainstorm and organize ideas for your project, make a mind map to stimulate new thoughts. Use a plain piece of paper, poster board, or whiteboard for your mind map and write the goal of your project in the middle. Write down related topics, subtopics, and relevant concepts around the goal, and branch out from them to create and follow different tangents. For instance, if your goal is to “provide a comprehensive account of the history of the fur trade in North America”, subtopics and tangents could include “relations with Natives”, “history of European fashion”, and “the cultural significance of fur”. If you are doing a group project, brainstorming things together will allow each group member to feed off of the ideas of others and gain new insight. Schedule a brainstorming session in a quiet place with few distractions. If you are working on a project on your own, group discussion with friends or colleagues can help you gain a new perspective on the topic you’re covering.  Remember to include everybody in any decision-making. Plan out the process of your research by using the gap filling brainstorming technique. To do this, identify where you are starting from in terms of your knowledge and resources (i.e. Point A), and identify where you want to go with your project (Point B). Make a list of all of the things missing between Point A and Point B and make a plan for filling in this gap. For instance, if Point A is starting a project about electric cars with limited knowledge on the topic, and Point B is completing a PowerPoint presentation about them, you can fill the gap by conducting research (online and in a library), outlining the history, technology, and possible future of electric cars,  and procuring pictures and news articles about them.

SUMMARY:
Try mind mapping. Discuss things in a group. Plot out your research.