Weekly Newsreading Assignment

This semester, you will be keeping tabs on local news via a weekly newsreading assignment. Each week, by midnight on Monday, you will choose an article from MassLive.com1 or The Shoestring.

Before class on Tuesday

You will write a THREE SENTENCE response to your chosen article on Slack in the newsreading response channel (e.g., 01-reading-response). Your response should follow this three-sentence format:

  • This article describes […….]
  • It uses [the following number/numbers] [… to do the following …]
  • I found it important because [……]

We will check this assignment weekly for completion. It will form part of your informal assignment/participation grade.

During class on Tuesday

Each Tuesday, one to two students will be asked to give a brief description of their article to the class for a short discussion.

Footnotes

  1. The login for masslive.com is Naila’s smith email address, pw SDS236. Please keep that login information confidential to this class.↩︎