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Newspaper Study Assignments:
  1. Current Events
  2. An Opinion

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Newspaper Current Event Report

1. What is the title of the newspaper/magazine article?

2. What is the name of the newspaper/magazine?

3. Who is the author of the article?

4. Who has the author quoted?

Details:

5. What are the facts?

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

The Main Idea:

6. Using the answers to the 5 W questions write a main idea sentence.

Personal reflections about the articles:

7. Why is the article important?

8. Will the article still be important in a day, week or year from now? (Why?)

9. What thoughts came to mind as you read the article?

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Writing an Opinion Paragraph

  1. Read several articles from a newspaper and complete assignment # 1
  2. Choose one of the articles that you have something to say about and write an opinion paragraph. Follow the format illustrated in the sample provided.

A Sample Opinion Paragraph

More needs to be done to make certain that children playing on trampolines are safe. Many children are becoming injured or even dying from playing on a trampoline. I feel that parents should be educated to understand that a trampoline is not safe for children unless they are properly supervised. Also, the manufacturers of trampolines could be doing more to make the equipment safe, such as providing a net on the outside ring so that when a child misses the edge they fall against the net instead of falling to the ground. Personally, I would never own a trampoline for fear that a child may be injured.

 

Structure of a paragraph

Sentence #1: Topic Sentence 

The topic sentence has two jobs

    1. states how you feel
    2. about what

Sentence # 2-3 supports your opinion with some

    1. examples
    2. reasons why
    3. more information/ evidence

Sentence # 4: Concluding sentence

    1. restates your opinion