All current events must be handed in by the end of the period or you will receive a ZERO.
Task: Students will be responsible for completing a weekly current event blog. Current event responses must follow the guidelines below:
MLA Citation:
· Articles in print
o Author of Article. "Name of article." Name of Newspaper [City Published] Date Published, Edition, Section: Page Number of Article.
o Tanzil, Sarah. "Red Sox Win World Series." Chicago Tribune 8 Oct. 2004, late edition: B14-15.
· Articles online
o Author of Article. "Name of article." Name of Newspaper Date Published. Date Accessed <URL>.
o Somashekar, Darshan. "Bioethics and Religion." New York Times on the Web 8 Oct. 2004. 10 Oct. 2004 <http://www.nytimes.com/bioethics>.
Summary (one paragraph):
· Summarize the content of the article
· Focus on the key elements
· State the facts as presented in the article
· Do NOT copy text from the article – summarize!
· Include one quote from the article
· Limit summary to five sentences
Analysis (one paragraph):
· Why is this important?
· How does it demonstrate an issue?
· Why is an interesting development?
· Why was the article interesting
· The answers to any of these (and other) questions will indicate what YOU think about a topic based on what you’ve learned
· State your opinion without using first person & do not use pronouns (I, you, he, she, they, we, her, him, my, etc.)