Directions:.
Locate a news story that relates to the risks or rewards of borrowing. Be prepared to share what
you find either as a written or a verbal summary.
Include the following information in your summary.
News Story Title
• Story Source (name the magazine, newspaper, website the story came from)
• Specific Location (page number(s), website address)
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Date (The story should have been written or posted during the past two years)
. Summary of the News Story (Answer the following questions with a complete sentence
for each.)
1. Who? (Who should the story concern? Who are the major players?)
2. What? (What is going on? What happened?)
3. Where? (Where did/does this happen?)
4. When? (When did it happen? What is the timeline?)
5. How? (How did it happen?)
6. Why? (Why did it happen? Why are the involved people behaving a certain
way?)
7. So what? (Why should you care? How can this impact you?)
Resources:
You can find local, state and national news from the school library, the town/city library, and
news websites. If they see or hear a news story on television or the radio, chances are pretty
good that the radio or television station has a website that will also contain that story. If possible,
bring a copy of the story to share with your summary.
RUBRIC:
5 points for each: News story title, story source, specific location, date
35 points for: summary of the News story
55 points total