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SOCIAL STUDIES CURRENT EVENTS GUIDELINES 2007 - 2008

DIRECTIONS:

1. Read an article from a newspaper, magazine, or Internet source that is related to any

country that we are studying this year . Check in your book or with me to be sure the

article concerns a country that is acceptable. If you prefer I will provide an article for you.

2. Either neatly cut the article from a newspaper or magazine and mount it on a separate

sheet of paper or print one from the computer. The captions under pictures are not

considered to be articles.

3. Use the Stingray Current Events Form as a guide. Sources should be underlined, titles of

articles should be in quotation marks, and all numbered sections should be answered in

complete sentences with appropriate punctuation and capitalization.

4. The Current Event assignment must be written in blue or black ink and will be completed in class.

5. Create a cover sheet for your report. The cover sheet should contain the following

information in the following order:

A. Your name

B. Date

C. Subject and Class Period

D. Title of the Article - in quotation marks

E. Name of the newspaper, magazine, or Internet source from which the article

came - underlined

6. Articles from publications like the Inquirer, the Globe, National Geographic, or the Star

will not be accepted. The school library has magazines and newspapers that you can use.

Get the article copied and return the newspaper or magazine to its correct location. Also,

the Carteret County Library is a good place to find articles.

7. There will be one assignment due each 9 weeks.  The dates are on the back of the form given

                to the student.

8. A copy of this sheet will stay in the student’s notebook all year and it is also on my web

page under “Forms and Documents.”A pattern for a complete and correctly done Current Event

assignment is on the back of the sheet in your child’s notebook.