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Natasha Vinales

My Weekly News Journal: My reactions to current events in the World

Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 6th Grade
Subjects: Character Building, Digital Citizenship, Social Studies

Student Instructions

Learning about what’s going on around the world, national, state, and local happenings have a multitude of benefits to becoming an informed citizen and lifelong learner. 1.- Read a news article from: https://www.dogonews.com/ 2.- Identify one particularly interesting or relevant story from the article you've chosen. 3.- Fill out the graphic organizer. You can also record your voice explaining. 4.- Click check to add it to your Daily News Journal. Finally, be prepared to share your news review with the class.

Teacher Notes (not visible to students)

Studying current events helps students understand the importance of people, events, and issues in the news; it stimulates students to explore and learn more about the news, and to pay attention to the news they see and hear outside of school. CNN 10: https://www.cnn.com/cnn10

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