Current Events

Instructions: Select an article of at least 300 words or more from a newspaper, news magazine, or Internet site.

Here are some websites to find current events:

Copy and paste the following in a word document. Write your answers in red. Then save and email your final paper to librariansauer@gmail.com

1. Title of your Article: ________________________________________________________

2. What newspaper, magazine, or Internet site did the article appear in?

__________________________________ date ___________________ page __________

3. Summarize the article. Do not simply copy a news event. Explain the event in your

own words in about 5 sentences.

4. Answer all of the following questions:

A. Express your opinion about the information in the article.

B. What did you learn from the article?

C. How can the information affect your life? Or, if the information does not affect your life, whose

life would it affect, and in what way?

5. If you were going to write a detailed report about the topic covered in the article,

what are two questions that you would ask in order to acquire additional relevant

information that was not mentioned in the article?

1. ________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________

6. With very brief answers (one or two word responses if possible), address the

following questions.

1) Who was the article about?

2) What was the article about?

3) When did the event occur?

4) Where did the event occur?

5) Why did the event occur?

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