Current+events

Current Event in Technology **Instructions:** Your assignment today is to research and summarize 3 articles about issues in our nation, our state, and/or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.

For each of the current events, you need to follow these steps:
 * Include the name of the article.
 * List the author's name
 * Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
 * Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
 * Answer all of the required questions in detail.
 * Complete sentences are required for your answers.
 * Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.

For the first article, go to www.usatoday.com or some other site that posts daily world events and find an article of interest about something that is going on in the world. You may also choose to go to a network news site such as www.msnbc.com.

For the second article, go to www.ksl.com or another state paper and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our state.

For the third article, you can choose to do an event from the world, state, or city. If you choose to do our city, go to www.sltrib.com or www.deseretnews.com (can search by town) and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our town.

Article #1 - World Current Event Article Title - Author - URL (create a link) -

Summarize your article.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?

Article #2 - State Current Event  Article Title - Author - URL (create a link) -

Summarize your article.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?

Article #3 - Your Choice  Article Title - Author - URL (create a link) -

Summarize your article.

What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?

How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?