Current events are important to the study of Social Studies. There have been weeks when issues that we are studying in history are brought up in the current news cycle. One example is the war in Afghanistan. During our study of the Revolutionary War in 7^th grade, the question could be asked if the United States could lose the war in Afghanistan, as a superpower, much like the British lost in 1781, being themselves a superpower ...

You will work on current events as assigned (approximately three a quarter). You must pick a story from a newspaper, magazine, or online periodical. Each quarter you will be allowed only one story from either the international, national, county (local), science, business, sports, entertainment, or religion sections of your chosen periodical.

Once you have selected, read, and analyzed your article, you will type a minimum of a one-page summary of the article. Your summary should include the pertinent information who, what, where, why, and when. Additionally, in analyzing your article, you should state why the article interested you?, what are the implications?, and how does it affect us? Your summary must be well-written and absent of any misspellings and grammar errors. Each misspelling or typographical error will result in the loss of five points for each mistake.

When typing your summary, you will either type your name at the end of your summary or in the footer. Moreover, you will use Times New Roman as the style font and the size of your font is to be 12-point. Additionally, you will double space when typing your summary and use the default settings for your margins, which are generally set to 1.25" for the left and right margins and 1" for the top and bottom margins.

Before submitting your summary, you will attach (staple) the article you selected to your summary.

Every quarter, your current event articles will be averaged and will count as one test grade for History (tests are 25% of the overall History grade).