The Big Sort Activity 2

Which clues in this text help you to best predict the article?

“The Daily Me” was printed in the opinion section of the New York
Times. It was written by Op-Ed Columnist Nikolas Kristof and
published on March 18, 2009.

Which clues in this text help you to best predict the article?

"The Daily Me Is Neither New nor Bad" was published on huffingtonpost.com on May 2, 2009. Eduardo Hauser is a former head of news for a television network, a National Public Radio board member, and a current media entrepreneur and CEO of dailyme.com.

What clues can you identify in each sentence that provide insight into the text's main idea, purpose, audience, and occasion, and what questions do these portions provoke?

These are paragraphs 2-3 from “The Daily Me”:

When we go online, each of us is our own editor, our own gatekeeper. We select the kind of news and opinions that we care most about. 

Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T has called this emerging news product The Daily Me. And if that’s the trend, God save us from ourselves.”

What clues can you identify in each sentence that provide insight into the text's main idea, purpose, audience, and occasion, and what questions do these portions provoke?

These are paragraphs 1-2 from “The Daily Me Is Neither New nor Bad”:

Certain journalists have recently expressed fear of a “new” trend they believe threatens their already struggling institutions—the growing news personalization Web sites that Nicholas Negroponte of M.I.T. coined “The Daily Me.”

But they shouldn’t be scared. The trend isn’t bad, and it isn’t new. In fact, far from being an enemy to news media, “The Daily Me” trend stands to help save journalism.

What is the main idea, purpose, intended audience, occasion, and questions to be answered in "The Daily Me"? Use the language function tool of explain and describe to help you write your grammatically correct paragraph.

What is the main idea, purpose, intended audience, occasion, and questions to be answered in "The Daily Me" and "The Daily Me is Neither New nor Bad"? Use the language function tool of explain and describe to help you write your grammatically correct paragraph.