Welcome to the 2010 Current Event Project.
This semester you are responsible for contributing to a Current Event Blog. Every Monday a current event topic will be posted on the whiteboard. During the week you must check the blog to see what I request of you that week. I will ask you to do one of the following:
- want you to all read the same article and share your comments
- request you must find your own article, create a new post and attach your article to that post
- ask you to comment on a classmate's article from the previous week.
- ask you to visit and comment on a discussion happening on another blog
Below are questions you will try to answer in comments and new posts You do not have to answer every question, but they should be used as a guide to ensure you completely understand the article. Your post or comment should equate to 25-50 words.
- This is an issue in our society. Why? Explain, as though explaining to someone who has never heard of it before, why this is an issue. Be sure to identify the people or groups on both sides of the issue and the basis of their (different) perspective.
- Who is the article about, or who is doing the action in the article?
- What is the article describing or discussing?
- Why is this action happening? Why did it happen? What is or was its purpose?
- Where does or did the action happen?
- When does or did the action in the article take place? (Is it happening right now? Explain.)
- How does or did the action happen? Is this something you can identify as fact, or is it your opinion – or maybe both?
- Reflect on your opinions of the article – including any conclusion you can make concerning the article.
On Friday - you will have 15 minutes to brainstorm with your partner the main ideas of your articles. A discussion guide will be given to each group.
Resource List
You may use these websites to find an article related to the topic posted on Mondays. Please print the article and bring to class to help prepare for your discussion. I will add more media sources to the site throughout the year. I may ask you to update the list as well.
