Current Events
A major component of this class is your current events study. As you can see from the syllabus, these are assigned most weeks. I think this is important, not only to help you better understand the world today, but to also help you to make connections with our novels. Here are some guidelines:
Since our focus is world news, you are going to have to look further than Buzzfeed and the Yahoo! News headlines. Some good suggestions are The Economist and BBC. You can usually find World News (or International News) under specific tabs on CNN, FOX, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or some of our other major news networks. I will bring in the current issues of The Economist each week, which you are welcome to look through. Current events can be from newspapers, magazines, and television news (be careful with this one).
Your current event summary will follow the academic paragraph model, which I will explain in class. However, you must also gather some other basic information for current events. This includes:
1. The Name of the Publication/News Organization
2. The Headline "In Quotations Since it is an Article"
3. Whether the article is a news or opinion piece? How do you know?
4. A three-sentence summary of the article. (Who was involved? What happened? Where? When? Why?) You will need to combine sentence structures to fit all of this information in the three sentences.
5. What is your opinion about this event/issue? Defend your position with details from the article and logical reasoning.
You could easily combine the top three requirements in one sentence. Check out the following example:
BBC recently published "Cuba's New Constitution" by Pascal Fletcher, provides a summary of the nation's changing political document. (1,2, 3). Fletcher's article focuses primarily on the data of what Cuba decided to keep in their revamped constitution and which articles they decided to toss out altogether. Cuba's newly elected president, Mr. Diaz-Canel, proposed the recognition of same-sex marriages, but "definitely will be keeping its one-party socialist political and economic system." While the wording of the document suggests a turn from communism, Cuba's government has no plans to replace their ideology, but rather to just change the wording. (4) I thought this article was very informative, correcting the misunderstandings surrounded Cuba's current position on communism. For example, earlier reporters rushed to suggest that "Cuba Renounces Communism." According to their government, their "ideology" was only being "updated."
Article found here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44971445
Since our focus is world news, you are going to have to look further than Buzzfeed and the Yahoo! News headlines. Some good suggestions are The Economist and BBC. You can usually find World News (or International News) under specific tabs on CNN, FOX, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or some of our other major news networks. I will bring in the current issues of The Economist each week, which you are welcome to look through. Current events can be from newspapers, magazines, and television news (be careful with this one).
Your current event summary will follow the academic paragraph model, which I will explain in class. However, you must also gather some other basic information for current events. This includes:
1. The Name of the Publication/News Organization
2. The Headline "In Quotations Since it is an Article"
3. Whether the article is a news or opinion piece? How do you know?
4. A three-sentence summary of the article. (Who was involved? What happened? Where? When? Why?) You will need to combine sentence structures to fit all of this information in the three sentences.
5. What is your opinion about this event/issue? Defend your position with details from the article and logical reasoning.
You could easily combine the top three requirements in one sentence. Check out the following example:
BBC recently published "Cuba's New Constitution" by Pascal Fletcher, provides a summary of the nation's changing political document. (1,2, 3). Fletcher's article focuses primarily on the data of what Cuba decided to keep in their revamped constitution and which articles they decided to toss out altogether. Cuba's newly elected president, Mr. Diaz-Canel, proposed the recognition of same-sex marriages, but "definitely will be keeping its one-party socialist political and economic system." While the wording of the document suggests a turn from communism, Cuba's government has no plans to replace their ideology, but rather to just change the wording. (4) I thought this article was very informative, correcting the misunderstandings surrounded Cuba's current position on communism. For example, earlier reporters rushed to suggest that "Cuba Renounces Communism." According to their government, their "ideology" was only being "updated."
Article found here:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44971445
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