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Meridian Couple Urges Congress To Ban Texting While Driving - Article Of The Week Middle School Worksheet

Article of the Week

Vale Middle School –– Meridian Couple Urges Congress to Ban Texting While Driving

Instructions:

Read the following article carefully and make notes in the margin as you read.

Your notes should include:

o Comments that show that you understand the article. (A summary or statement of the main

idea of important sections may serve this purpose.)

o Questions you have that show what you are wondering about as you read.

o Notes that differentiate between fact and opinion.

o Observations about how the writer’s strategies (organization, word choice, perspective,

support) and choices affect the article.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assignment.

Student _________________________________

Notes on my thoughts,

Meridian Couple Urges Congress to Ban Texting While Driving

reactions and questions as I

read:

BOISE -- Just nine months after their 18-year-old daughter died after

texting while driving, a Meridian couple fights to end distracted

driving.

The U.S. Department of Transportation held its second Distracted

Driving Summit in Washington, D.C., to brainstorm ways to get

drivers to focus on the road. Kassy Kerfoot’s parents, Gus and Liz

Catherman, spoke at today's summit, outlining how distracted driving

led to their daughter's death.

On Dec. 29, 2009, Liz said Kassy was driving on Eagle Road on her

way to a friend’s house when texting took her eyes off the road. The

cars in front of her had stopped. Kassy swerved into oncoming

traffic to miss those cars and she hit two others. Five hours after the

crash Kassy died of her injuries. Kassy is one of 5,000 Americans

who died last year because of distracted driving.

Now, Kassy's parents talk to Driver's Education classes, and others

about the dangers of distracted driving. Liz says she hopes Congress

will pass a law quickly so other parents don't have to go through

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Meridian Couple Urges Congress To Ban Texting While Driving - Article Of The Week Middle School Worksheet