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What’s In the News

What’s In the News

Remote Class Days (M,T,R,F):
Blank Google Form for your articles
Example Form Filled Out (if you need a reference point)

Each remote day you are going to select and summarize a news article of your choosing.

The article must be submitted by 2:05pm for each day that you are at home.

The articles will assist you with your literacy, vocabulary and summary skills. Additionally the article serves as an attendance checkpoint.

  • Google News (news aggregator that you can customize)
  • All Sides (unbiased news presented from all sides of political spectrum)
  • New York Times (the nation’s leading newspaper in digital form)

All Cawd 2 students have an account with the New York Times


How to Write a Summary

sum·ma·ry

(noun) a brief statement or account of the main points of something.

(adj) dispensing with needless details or formalities; brief.

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  • A summary is a shortened version of written or spoken information
    • It is NOT: paraphrasing, recounting, or re-telling ALL the information
    • It IS telling about the: Big Picture, Gist, Heart of the Matter, Key Idea, Crucial information
  • We can summarize: Fiction, Non-fiction, news, media,(T.V. shows, movies, commercials) conversation, meetings, speeches, and events(sports, plays, weddings, parties, graduation activities….)
  • It is NOT a good idea to summarize a recipe, accident report, directions that tell how to assemble furniture or build a model in Blender!
  • Summarizing requires:
    • Analyzing information
    • Sorting the most important information from less important information
    • Reduction of a lot of details and information into a few short, cohesive sentences
  • Summarizing helps us 
    • Remember information
    • Understand how parts fit together to form a whole
  • Summarizing can be a strategy to help reading comprehension.   

Questions to guide summarizing

  • What happened?
  • Who was involved?
  • What was the outcome?

For example:   The Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers to win the 2011 Super Bowl. The final score was 31-25. Fans were entertained at halftime by the Black Eyed Peas and Usher. Packers quarterback, Aaron Rodgers was name MVP.

When you create a summary ask yourself:

  • Is the essential information included?
  • Are details that might be interesting, but not essential, left out?
  • Would someone reading my summary be able to understand the main point?

Cawd Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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Serving high school students interested in Computer Animation, Game Design, and Web Development in North Western Vermont.

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University of Vermont Ringling School of Art and Design Northeastern University Rochester Institute of Technology Concordia University

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