HPE Article Summary Worksheet
Directions: Complete this Article Summary Worksheet from a magazine article that relates
to Physical Education and/or Healthy Lifestyles.
Objective: College-ready students will be able to complete this Article Summary worksheet
in conjunction with a magazine article that relate to Physical Education or/and Health.
Students will complete the bibliography section by analyzing the article and pinpointing
important facts. Students will identify the main ideas, thesis, that relate to the article of their
choice.
 Bibliographic Information
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Author(s) of article: Ann Pietrangelo
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Title of article: The Effect of Alcohol on your Body
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Name of magazine, newspaper, website, etc. containing the article:
Healthline.com
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List the reasons why your article relates to this class.
We are discussing this topic, how and why it affects us, and what we can do to prevent anything bad
happening
 Summary Information
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Briefly state the main idea or thesis presented in this article: In this article it
discussed how and why 23 ways alcohol can effect your body
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Summarize TWO of the most important information, ideas, facts, etc. presented
in this article: If you are constantly drinking alcohol it can cause you to have heart
damage which you could die from and excessive drinking can cause you to have
pancreatitis and liver damage which can kill you as well.
 Personal Reaction
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Identify TWO of the most surprising/interesting things you found out by reading
this article? What surprised me is that excessive drinking can cause the frontal
lubes of your brain to shrink and it can make you infertile.
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Create TWO questions you have after reading this article? or What would you like
to learn more about? I would like to learn more about how it can shrink your
brain and how it has the ability to slur your words.