Name of publication/news organization: Headline: Name of author and date of publication:

After you’ve read the article, complete

Directions
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space on the grid for any of your 1 2 3
answers, feel free to continue writing
on the back of this sheet.

Is this article a news or opinion piece? In precisely three sentences, summarize the following: Who was involved? What happened? Where? When? Why did this event/issue happen?
4 How do you know? 6 How were people impacted? (Yes, you’ll need to use sentence combining structures to fit all of this information into just three sentences.)

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What group or groups of people would care the most about this What is your opinion about this event/issue? Defend your position with details from the article and logical reasoning.
7 information? Why? 8

Why is this event/issue newsworthy? If you could ask the article’s author a question Choose a word from the article that is new to you. First, write the sentence in
9 10 about his/her information, what would you ask? 11 which the word appears and circle the word:

Second, write the word’s dictionary definition:

WHAT’SUPINTHEWORLD?