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Assignment #2: Current Events Summary
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** Find an article from a reputable news source. This should be a newspaper, news magazine, or a news web-site. The article should be from the last thirty days and be related to GENOCIDE. ** The news article should be a MAJOR news event.  Print the article or cut it out of or copy the newspaper or magazine. BEFORE YOU COME TO CLASS, read and highlight the key points in your article. On the separate sheet of paper:
 * 1) Write an eight-ten-sentence (MINIMUM) paragraph summarizing the article. Include the 5 Ws: who? what? when? where? why?
 * 2) Relate the article to our study of //Hotel Rwanda//, or the Holocaust and //Night// in 2-3 sentences (MINIMUM).
 * 3) Include a map on your page of the area in which your article takes place
 * 4) Be sure to link to your online article and include proper citation. Use the CITATION MACHINE link to help you with the proper format. You may also check my page for help.

__**Include in your citation:**__
 * Newspaper title
 * Article title (if given)
 * Author (if given)
 * Date of publication
 * Page or section numbers (if applicable)
 * Address of the site
 * Date of access


 * __To insure proper formatting of your source, follow these directions.__**

Use the [|CITATION MACHINE] to help you with your citation.
 * Click the above link to Citation Machine.
 * On the left, click MLA.
 * Again, on the left, look under NONPRINT, and choose web document.
 * Find the information necessary from your article and input it into the proper boxes.
 * Click SUBMIT.
 * Copy and paste the information in the gray box to your page.

Like this: Pruitt, Allie. "Poe Toaster." //Weekly World News//. 19 jan 2010. Web. 19 Jan 2010. .

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