Current Event in TechnologyInstructions: Your assignment today is to research and summarize 3 articles about issues in our nation, our state, and/or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.
For each of the current events, you need to follow these steps:
Include the name of the article.
List the author's name
Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
Answer all of the required questions in detail.
Complete sentences are required for your answers.
Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.
For the first article, go to www.usatoday.com or some other site that posts daily world events and find an article of interest about something that is going on in the world. You may also choose to go to a network news site such as www.msnbc.com.
For the second article, go to www.ksl.com or another state paper and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our state.
For the third article, you can choose to do an event from the world, state, or city. If you choose to do our city, go to www.sltrib.com or www.deseretnews.com (can search by town) and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our town.
Article #1 - World Current Event Article Title -
Closest planet to sun, Mercury, harbors ice
Summarize your article.
The article says that the closest planet to the sun Mercury, harbors ice.
The ice in in the north pole in the shadows of the planet.
What did you think was the most interesting part of the article? Well, there is ice in the hottest planet known to man. That is pretty astonishing.
How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?
Well in my opinion it did not affect my life, sure there is ice on the closest planet to the sun, but one thing how and why would we go and get to it. Sure we can fly over and take it, but people might be too hot to do the mission.
Article #2 - State Current Event Article Title- 3 dead after attack at Wyo. community college
Author-Mead Gruver
URL (create a link) - Article Summarize your article.
There was a attack at Cheyenne, Wyo. there are 3 dead people. 2 of the 3 were found at the science building, the other was found 2-miles away form the scene. The suspect does not appear to be a student. It occurred just before 9:00 A.M. on a Friday.
What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?
That the police found all of the bodies in the attack. That no one else got hurt in the attack.
How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?
It tells people that there is danger in that area until the person is caught, people will be on high alert. It also shows that danger is around every corner or place.
Your assignment today is to research and summarize 3 articles about issues in our nation, our state, and/or our town dealing with technology using the Internet. When you perform a search and summarize, you must be careful to write it in your own words.
For each of the current events, you need to follow these steps:
- Include the name of the article.
- List the author's name
- Create a link with the articles URL for the chosen current event article.
- Write a short summary (6-7 sentences minimum) of what you learned from the article.
- Answer all of the required questions in detail.
- Complete sentences are required for your answers.
- Make sure that your answers are in a different (easy to read) color font than the questions.
For the first article, go to www.usatoday.com or some other site that posts daily world events and find an article of interest about something that is going on in the world. You may also choose to go to a network news site such as www.msnbc.com.For the second article, go to www.ksl.com or another state paper and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our state.
For the third article, you can choose to do an event from the world, state, or city. If you choose to do our city, go to www.sltrib.com or www.deseretnews.com (can search by town) and find an article of interest about something that is going on in our town.
Article #1 - World Current Event
Article Title -
Closest planet to sun, Mercury, harbors ice
Author -
Marcia Dunn, AP
URL (create a link) -
Article
Summarize your article.
The article says that the closest planet to the sun Mercury, harbors ice.
The ice in in the north pole in the shadows of the planet.
What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?
Well, there is ice in the hottest planet known to man. That is pretty astonishing.
How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?
Well in my opinion it did not affect my life, sure there is ice on the closest planet to the sun, but one thing how and why would we go and get to it. Sure we can fly over and take it, but people might be too hot to do the mission.
Article #2 - State Current Event Article Title- 3 dead after attack at Wyo. community collegeAuthor-Mead Gruver
URL (create a link) -
Article
Summarize your article.
There was a attack at Cheyenne, Wyo. there are 3 dead people. 2 of the 3 were found at the science building, the other was found 2-miles away form the scene. The suspect does not appear to be a student. It occurred just before 9:00 A.M. on a Friday.
What did you think was the most interesting part of the article?
That the police found all of the bodies in the attack. That no one else got hurt in the attack.
How does this current event affect your life? Is the change positive or negative?
It tells people that there is danger in that area until the person is caught, people will be on high alert. It also shows that danger is around every corner or place.