CURRENT EVENTS ARTICLES

Every two weeks, when you have this class on Friday, you will read a current events story from any printed media source and summarize/submit it on this chart. Please make a copy of the article or print it out and include it in your notebook. Notes: students need to create a new section in their notebooks and label it current events.

Select and read an article from any of the on-line sources included on this page or from any of the following acceptable media: TheHouston Chronicle, Time, US News and World Report, Newsweek, The Economist, The Texas Catholic, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Times or National Geographic. If you have a different printed media source such as a news magazine or newspaper, you may ask for permission to use it. Do not do a current events article using a non-approved source or you will receive a zero.

You must select your article based on the following criteria:

  1. If your last name begins with the letter below, all of your articlesfor the nine weeks must come from the geographic region designated.

A – D:East Asia

E – H: Eastern Europe including Russia

I –L:Latin America

M – P:Sub-Saharan Africa

Q – S:Southwest Asia, Central Asia, and North Africa

T – V:South Asia

W – Z:Southeast Asia and the PacificIslands

  1. Each week, however, you may select a different theme according to the following AP themes. Over the course of the nine weeks, you may study one theme or you may change and do a different theme each week. Both formats have their merits.
  1. Interactions: War, Diplomacy, Trade, Exchanges
  2. State Structures, Political Ideologies and Functions of Governments
  3. Technology and its impact on a society
  4. Demography and Environment
  5. Social Structures and Gender Issues
  6. Religions and Philosophies
  7. Intellectual Activities including the Arts, Sciences, Music and Literature

If you need any assistance, you may come to my room for tutorials.

Additional online sources:

  1. www.loc.gov/rr/news/extgovd.html:

NAME: ______DATE: ______PERIOD: ______

CURRENT EVENT CHART

STORY
TITLE
SOURCE
DATE
AUTHOR
NATIONALITY OF SOURCE
DESCRIBE THE GEOGRAPHIC SETTING OF THE STORY
THESIS OR
MAIN IDEA
(ONE SENTENCE)
KEY POINTS TO
THE STORY
VOCABULARY
IDENTIFY THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE STORY: HOW DID IT INFLUENCE THE STORY?
IDENTIFY A MISSING POINT OF VIEW NECESSARY FOR A COMPLETE STORY
MAKING CONNECTIONS: HOW DOES THIS STORY RELATE TO THE HISTORY WE HAVE STUDIED?