De Anza College 6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health Article Journal

Please read the handouts on summarizing and responding to a text. Read it twice.

For your first journal assignment in this class (remember your journals are worth 15% of your grade), you will summarize and respond to “6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health”.

Remember to type it and double space.

Follow the directions on summary/response handouts.

Please underline your topic sentence AND your concluding sentence.

Your journal will have 3 parts:

1) Summary: a one paragraph summary of the story (underline your t.s. and c.s.)

2) Response: a one paragraph response/reaction to the article

3) Five vocabulary words with definition, part of speech, and YOUR OWN original sentence using the word (focus on YOU). Only ONE sentence for each word. Complex sentences (no simple ones).

Underline the vocabulary word.

The five vocabulary words from “6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health” are:

1. intuitively
2. plausible
3. anecdotal
4. vicious
5. invidious