ESL Reading. Lab assignment 3. Due Monday, Sept. 24.

1. Go to the library and find a magazine or newspaper article on a subject you don’t know anything about. For example, if you don’t know anything about fishing or Lake Superior, you could read an article in the Native American (Ojibwe) newspaper, Mazina’igan or in Field and Stream. If you don’t know anything about American feminism, read Ms. Choose a magazine or newspaper different from the one you read last week. It should be rather recent: 2006 or 2007. The article should be several paragraphs long – at least 5 or 6 paragraphs.

2. Try to determine the main idea of the article. Copy a sentence or a few sentences that seem to express this main idea.

3. Write a summary of the article in your own words – a paragraph telling what the article is about. Then write a sentence or two telling what you learned from the article – something you didn’t know but found interesting.

4. Vocabulary: List 8 new words you learned from the article. Copy the sentence containing the word. Then give the meaning of the word. If you found the meaning by studying the context (words around it) list the words that helped you or gave you hints. If you had to use the dictionary, write (dictionary) next to your definition. Try to figure out the meaning from the context, if possible.

5. Be sure to sign the paper in the librarian’s office to indicate you spent at least an hour on the assignment.