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Reading & Writing Skills

Goals: 

- read current news and know what is going on

- scan articles on important news in papers

- take notes of key ideas

-summarize notes > summary writing

Writing summary: how > dos

What happened in Washington DC this week?

How was this reported in American papers?

assignment:

1. find main articles in American newspapers

2. scan 3 articles and take notes on main events

3. summarize what happened, using your notes, into summary > underline the notes you took.

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Submit the notes you took on each article of choice

Submit summary of 3 articles, with title and sources (links included), underline the notes you used in summary

Which information was unknown to you?

Which skills can you improve? (see goals)