Current Events Assignment Requirements

SOCIAL STUDIES CURRENT EVENTS ASSIGNMENT

PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS

GRADES 7 & 8    2012-2013

Each week you will be required to find a current events article (it is happening now) HARD NEWS article from a LEGITIMATE news source.  I will assign you a news topic each week. The article you submit MUST be on the assigned topic.

****What is a legitimate news source? A newspaper (print or online) such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Tribune, The Daily News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc…. OR you can use an internet NEWS (not entertainment) source such as ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, PBS, etc….

****What is “HARD NEWS”?  It is important, national, local, or international news.  In other words, no sports, entertainment, sensational crime reports, or gossip-type articles may be used.

PROCEDURES:

·      Find an article that is at least three paragraphs long on the assigned topic

·      Neatly clip or print the article and affix it to a page in your Current Events Notebook (this notebook should be used ONLY for Current Events)

·      Write a one-paragraph summary of the article on the facing page of your notebook.

·      Use your question template as a guide to writing the summary.

You must read and summarize an article a week and keep them all together in your notebook. Your book will be collected and graded weekly or bi-weekly.

The first article and summary is due Thursday, September 27, 2012.  A new article and summary are due every week thereafter.

Grading Guidelines

GRADING GUIDELINES FOR GRADES SEVEN & EIGHT

READING (ELA) AND SOCIAL STUDIES

READING, ENGLISH, LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA):

Classwork: 40%--All classwork should be done in the appropriate notebook and handed in when required.

Tests and Essays: (Constructed Responses): 30%

Projects: 20%

Daily Journal: 10%

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Classwork: 40%--All classwork should be done in the appropriate notebook and handed in when required.

Current Events: 20%

Tests and Essays: (Constructed Responses): 20%

Projects: 20%

POLICY ON ABSENCES AND LATENESSES:

When a student is absent or late and misses classes it is the obligation of the student to speak to each teacher and gather and complete ALL work missed—this includes work done in class the day or days he/she was absent. Any work not made up will be counted as an “F” (0 points).

Supply List-Grades 7 & 8 ELA and Social Studies

GRADE SEVEN AND EIGHT ELA & SOCIAL STUDIES SUPPLY LIST

Mrs. Luebbert

·      FOUR (4) individual copybooks or notebooks

·      FOUR (4) individual folders

·      Loose-leaf paper

·      Blue or black pens

·      Pencils

·      A 12-24 pack of colored pencils

·      Highlighters (1-2)

*****Please send in $5.00 for your child’s class magazine subscription

It is important that you have separate notebooks, not one big notebook.  Sometimes notebooks are collected for grading.  If you have more than one subject’s worth of notes in a notebook that will not work.  Get and stay organized! 

Please send in the following for use by the entire class:

·      2 boxes of tissues

·      1 roll paper towels

·      1 bottle of hand sanitizer

·      2 containers of wet ones hand wipes

·      1 box of quart size zip-lock bags

·      1 container of Clorox or Lysol wipes

Thank you very much,