Thursday, September 27, 2018

Current Events Article #1

For the next two days students will be analyzing an article on Newsela (This great website allows students to adjust reading level to fit their needs). After reading the article, we will be completing a template to get the 'gist' of the article, and then students will be creating a written summary and response to the article.
We will be doing several of these Current Events articles over the year, each one being a formative assessment, with the last one in the 4th quarter being a summative.

 Here is a link to the article "Fortnite dance moves..."

Here is the link to the worksheet they will be completing online: Template 
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