Article of the Week

Article of the week is assigned and submitted through Microsoft Teams.
Each Monday, students will be assigned an article.  Students are responsible for reading the article and responding in the form of an extended writing task. Sometimes, students will be asked to choose a side of an argument. Other times, students will just give their opinion on the topic or tell about what they learned by using evidence from the text. The extended writing is due on Fridays by 3pm for all classes.
 
A color-coded outline to help you before you submit your AoW! 
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Here are examples of an article of the week. Notice that you are free to choose your opinion on the issue. I am not grading you based on your opinion! 
 
 
 
 
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  • When I grade your Article of the week, I start out by looking for these things:
  • Is the writing on topic?
  • Did the student use text evidence and highlight it yellow?
  • Did the student use a speech tag to introduce the evidence? (According to the text, the author states, etc.)
  • Did the student write enough words to satisfy the word limit?