Get out the article. Copy and paste the bullets below into a MSWord document and then answer them.
- Where did you keep your article? Do you still have it? Is it wrinkled? Where do you keep all articles and sheets passed out by teachers?
- What does your answer to the questions above say about your organizational skills? Why is keeping an organized binder important for success in college?
- Write five words from the article that you circled and their definitions.
- Did you get the definitions from notes? What does this say about your note-taking habits?
- On a scale of one to ten, one being low, how badly have you caught the disease commonly know as eighth-graderitis? What can you do to improve?
- Write a statistic from the article and comment on the implications for your life. "Implications" means the way it affects your life. Use these words but fill in the parentheses. In (article's name), by (author's name) of the New York Times, (last name) writes, (put sentence or sentences in quotes here). This statistic has an implication for my life. (Explain implication here.)
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