1. Session: The Occupy Movements & Introduction to Research Methods
Part 2: Researching Occupy Wall Street and Writing summaries
Skills: Researching Basics, News Articles Summary

2. What You are Doing Today
You will be using the laptops to practice how to research news articles
You will be researching and reading THREE different articles from THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES
You will then write an article summary for each
For your blog this week you are writing a GENERAL summary of the Occupy Wall Street protests and economic crisis of 2008 from ALL the sources you found combined with proper MLA citations

3. Guidelines for Researching News Articles
 Below is a list of possible news sources you can use for your research on the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Economic Crisis of 2008
Washington Post
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Wall Street Journal
Associated Press
The Economist
Christian Science Monitor
Bloomberg News
National Public Radio

4. Article Summaries
For each of the articles you have researched, you will also write a short summary
Follow this format:
Who?
What?
When?
How/why?

5. Guidelines for Writing a Summary with Evidence
 For a one-paragraph summary, discuss each supporting point in a separate sentence.  Give 1-2 explanations for each supporting point, summarizing the information from the original. 
For a multi-paragraph summary, discuss each supporting point in a separate paragraph.  Introduce it in the first sentence (topic sentence).

6. Occupy Movements Part 2: Blog Work
Write a summary on Occupy Wall Street & the economic crisis of 2008 based on your research
You’ll be writing this for your blog
You summary should include (see checklist below)
A citations for the authors and source
Main idea (paraphrased)
Major supporting points
Major supporting explanations

7. Guidelines for Writing a Summary
Examples of frames:
According to ___________________ (Name of source), ________________________________________.             (author's last name)                      (main idea;)
Morgana's  article/video on ______________ discusses the ____________________.                    (topic)   (main idea)
In his/her article, "________________" argues that _______________________. (author's last name, ) (title of article/video (plug in main idea), (detail or supporting point)_____, (then you explain it)

8. Your Work with Summaries
You’re working in 3s today for the last part of Occupy Wall Street
You’ll need 1 facilitator to run this part of the session
You’ll need 1 timer
You’ll need 1 reporter

9. Your Work with Summaries
Step 1: Take 3-4 mins to read this sample summary-You’re looking to find why this sample is an example of a good summary-highlight/annotate anything you find
Step 2: Take 3 mins to Talk with each other about what you read and highlighted as examples of why this is a good summary
Step 4: Take 3-4 mins to read your own summary- and highlight/annotate parts of yours that match the strong points on the sample one
Step 5: Take 2 mins to highlight parts that are a work in progress