CURRENT EVENTS

Marketing, Fashion, and Sports & Entertainment Marketing are ever changing and any student of professional is expected to keep up.  Therefore, all fashion, marketing, and S & E students will be expected to complete four current event assignments each quarter on a marketing, sports & entertainment, or fashion topic.  Refer to your course outline for suggested areas to look for in MAGAZINES, NEWPAPER, and other Publications.  The following guidelines must be followed in order to earn full credit for each article.

FOR MAXIMUM CREDIT, THE CURRENT EVENTS MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE CLASS BEGINS, WE WILL NOT PROVIDE TAPE, GLUE OR STAPLER.

GRADING FOR CURRENT EVENTS:

*     Neatness – Very Important
*     Completed on time, before class
*     Underlined important points
*     Title, source and author(s) listed
*     A WRITTEN summary of the article
*     Correct Length of the article to the summary, article must be at least FIVE       PARAGRAPHS
*     Attach a copy of the article to the summary
*     Presentation of the article to the class, oral grade,  Presentation must be done in        front class

**   CURRENT EVENTS MUST BE RELATED TO THE CLASS, examples S & E      must be about sports and entertainment, marketing about marketing and fashion        concerns fashion.
***  IF YOU ARE ABSENT ON ASSIGNED DAYS, YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO      PRESENT YOUR CURRENT EVENT AT THE BEGINNING FO THE NEXT      CLASS.

IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE CURRENT EVENT ON THE DUE DATE, YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO PRESENT IT ON THE NEXT DAY OF CLASS AT ONE GRADE LOWER.  IF YOU ARE MORE THAN ONE DAY LATE, CURRENT EVENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE.

‘XEROX COPIES ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE’
 
 

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Submitted by Roger Poston
Oakton High School
Vienna