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Activity packet cover: Current Events, What's in the News? Write a summary, show importance, form an opinion.
Cover introducing the three writing tasks
Directions for finding and highlighting a news article, summarizing it, explaining importance, and giving an opinion.
Directions for article selection and written responses
First student response page: Summarize, with fields for student name, article title, source, and week date.
Student response page 1: article summary
Second student response page: Importance and Opinion, with a reminder to staple the highlighted news article.
Student response page 2: importance and opinion
Grading rubric for article highlights, summary, importance, and opinion, with comments and a grand total.
Grading rubric for the article and written responses
Attributes
Subject

Social Studies

Grades

Grade 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Types

Activities

File

PDF

Editable
No
Author
Mister Harms
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About This Product

Are you needing some excellent ideas for a substitute teacher or those times when you need something fast? This Current Events News Summary resource contains a variety of engaging activities for all students! Find some newsworthy articles, print this resource or assign it to students in Google Drive and students will be ready to learn, write, apply and reflect!

What's Included

1 PDF file with:

-Printable worksheets

-Google Drive access for a digital format

-4 pages to complete the activity

Resource Tags

current news event history printable research lesson summarizing writing summarize activity current events curriculum how to teach current events

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