Open up a second tab in your web browser and put this CNN story into your web browser:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/28/us/ebola-patient-nih/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
You should get this headline story: Patient Exposed to Ebola Arrives in the U.S.
Assignment: Open up a Word document and answer the following questions about this story.
1. How many paragraphs are in the story?
2. Who was infected by the Ebola virus?
3. Where was he working when he was infected?
4. What is Ebola? (You may have to look this up in a new tab. Google it and look at the wikipedia definition.)
5. Where is the doctor who was infected being treated for the disease?
6. When was the doctor taken to this treatment center?
7. How many people have died in West Africa from the latest Ebola outbreak?
8. Is there a cure for Ebola at the moment?
9. Why is finding a cure so important?
10. Who authored this story? Who wrote it?
11. What news agency does she work for?
12. Where are Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the countries hurt the most by this recent outbreak?
(use wikepedia to look them up.)
13. Which paragraph is the lede paragraph?
When you are done, save the file with your first name and "ebola" in the title.
Key terms: Inverted pyramid, lede,
http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/28/us/ebola-patient-nih/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
You should get this headline story: Patient Exposed to Ebola Arrives in the U.S.
Assignment: Open up a Word document and answer the following questions about this story.
1. How many paragraphs are in the story?
2. Who was infected by the Ebola virus?
3. Where was he working when he was infected?
4. What is Ebola? (You may have to look this up in a new tab. Google it and look at the wikipedia definition.)
5. Where is the doctor who was infected being treated for the disease?
6. When was the doctor taken to this treatment center?
7. How many people have died in West Africa from the latest Ebola outbreak?
8. Is there a cure for Ebola at the moment?
9. Why is finding a cure so important?
10. Who authored this story? Who wrote it?
11. What news agency does she work for?
12. Where are Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the countries hurt the most by this recent outbreak?
(use wikepedia to look them up.)
13. Which paragraph is the lede paragraph?
When you are done, save the file with your first name and "ebola" in the title.
Key terms: Inverted pyramid, lede,