Social Studies Current Events
Social Studies Current Events
Most of social studies deals with the past. However, it is important to keep up with what is going on in the world today. Your assignment will be to find out what is going on in the world.
• Select an article on a social studies topic from a current (no more than one month old) newspaper, magazine, or from the internet. You may only use one internet article a quarter. The article must be at least three paragraphs long.
• Articles on sports or pop culture are not allowed.
• Cut out the entire article or print it from the internet.
• I will be checking spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• On a separate sheet of paper put the following:
* Title of the article
* Source (the specific newspaper, magazine, or internet site)
* Date of the article
*On the right side of the paper, list at least 5 summary sentences. If any of the main ideas are copied directly from the article you will receive a zero for the assignment.
*On the left side of the paper, write questions or ideas you need
more information about. You must have at least 2 questions.
*At the bottom of the page, list one new vocabulary word from
the article with the definition. Look up the definition!
*On the back write a reflection, your thoughts and feelings, on the article: What do I think about this? What does this article have to do with me? How does this article connect with what I know or what I have experienced? Your reflection must be at least five sentences long.
Due Dates
First and Second Periods Third and Fourth Periods
9/4 1/29 9/11 1/22
9/18 2/19 9/25 2/12
10/9 3/11 10/16 3/4
10/30 4/15 11/6 4/8
11/13 4/29 11/20 4/22
12/4 5/13 12/11 5/6
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