Name:

Date: ________________

Weekly News Assignment

1. Every student is assigned to NEWS.
During the second week of school all students will sign up
for their news week for the first half of the year.
2. Bring in three articles of news for your day.
You may bring in news from the Internet or the newspaper!
You must have a hard copy of each article - from the
newspaper or printed off the computer or written down by
YOU.
One article must be International news (outside of Canada).
One article must be National news (outside of BC but within
Canada).
One article must be Local news (in British Columbia).
3. Tell the class WHAT the news is, WHO it is about, WHERE
the news took place, and WHEN the news took place. All the
news must be CURRENT (it happened in the past few days.)
4. Create at least three questions about your news that you
would like to ask the class.