Current+Events

=Current Events/Rutland Reads=

email current event summaries to me (lauren.olson@k12.sd.us), be sure to include: Title:

Author:

Link (if found online): [If article is not online you must give me a copy of the article.]

Summary: (Read the article and tell me what it's about. Don't copy and paste ANYTHING into your summary, unless you are using quotations.) Include in your summary how the article is connected to our class.

=**Sample of a current event summary**=

Rutland Reads
Objective: Students will read literary selections and improve test scores in reading. (This reading excludes any textbooks already used for classes.) Definition of literary selections: Books - 100 pages = 1 literary selection Pamphlets = ¼ of a literary selection Magazine Articles = ¼ of a literary selection Professional Journal Articles = ¼ of a literary selection Technical Manual – 100 pages = 1 literary selection Audio Books – 100 pages = 1 literary selection Newspaper Article = ¼ of a literary selection

Minimum of 3 selections per class per year.

**Grading**
20 points 5= including the link (if found online) or copy of article. 5= summary of article 5= linking article to class 5=turning in summary on time

email summary to me (lauren.olson@k12.sd.us)

Watch plagiarism, do not copy and paste ANY part of the article to write your summary (without quotations). http://www.plagiarism.org/

"According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means
In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud." from: http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_plagiarism.html
 * 1) to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
 * 2) to use (another's production) without crediting the source
 * 3) to commit literary theft
 * 4) to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

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