Overview
For your first assignment, you can go online and start browsing through the most recent news headlines. Next,
1. Identify the three most important political issues/problems/events of the day.
2. In a paragraph, summarize your events and explain what makes each issue important. Discuss their implications for American politics, economy, society, environment, foreign policy, individuals, etc. (Whichever and how many ever applies)
Please continue to read the information below to learn how to distinguish information from opinion.
-When you are working on this assignment, make sure to report facts and information, not opinions. Stay away from blogs since they present the views of individuals who write blogs. Here is a very useful link to help you distinguish opinions from facts.
https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/news-statements-quiz/ (Links to an external site.)