What did you read about?

Directions: Fill in the information about your reading. DO NOT write more than what can fit onto this form. Other than names of people, places, and sources, use your own words to describe your answers. If you use more than 2 words in a row that come straight from the article, you are probably plagiarizing.

Name of the article_______________________

by _______________________ written on ______________________ in _________________________

(name of author if known) (date of article if known) (name of newspaper, website, book, etc. )

Who? (Who are the important people mentioned?)________________________________________________________________
What? (What happened?)____________________________________________________________________________________

Where? (Where did it happen?)_______________________________________________________________________________

When? (When did it happen?)________________________________________________________________________________

Why? (Why did it happen? Why is this article important?) _______________________________________________

In ________________________, _________________from _____________________________________

(article’s name) (author’s name) (name of newspaper, website, book, etc. )

believes, thinks, argues, insists, states, reports that_____________________________________________

(circle one)

________________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________supports this by stating :

(article’s name)

1)

2)

3)

I ________________________________________________________________________________________

(agree/disagree with the author, believe that___________, found ______interesting, can relate to __________, …)

because___________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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