Each student will complete a current event project for social studies class each trimester. You will be required to report on an event that has occurred within the week of your due date. Please find and report on a news story from a reliable source that has social implications. Social studies topics include government, politics, war and peace, international organizations (UN, OSA, OPEC, etc), and humanitarian efforts around the world. Sports, music, and crime stories from outside Philadelphia are not relevant to our class, unless there are widespread implications.
Students with a late current event will be given one week to hand it in. Then you will earn a zero.
You will receive a social studies grade based on content, summary, grammar, neatness/on time (25 points each) as well as a speaking and listening grade for ELA based on your presentation and your attentive listening to other people’s news stories. The assignment is posed in your google classroom.
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Use a reliable source. NYT, Cnn, other major news sources. Don't use tabloids or unfounded reports. Two good, kid-friendly sources are news for kids and dogonews.com