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Remember
September 11
(6-12)
The
Day the World Changed
(n31)
Subject
English,
journalism
Objective
Students
will learn different types of articles that comprise
a newspaper and write examples based on the events
of September 11.
Time
Needed
Two
to three class periods
Materials
Newsprint
or access to newspaper software, newspapers
Lesson
Ask
students to bring a copy of a newspaper to class
on a given day. Point out the following types
of articles; news, features, editorials, advertisements,
sports., syndicated columns, political cartoons.
Discuss the basic differences in each of these
types of articles. Obviously if you are teaching
journalism you will want to go into more depth,
but for the purposes of this assignment, you want
to give students a sense of the different type
of articles included in a typical newspaper.
Assign groups of students the task of creating
a special edition newspaper that will be published
for students at their grade level to deal with
the following question:
How did September 11 change the world?
All articles for the paper must deal in some way
with this question.
Newspapers should include at least 5 different
types of articles.
When papers are completed display or duplicate.
Give students the chance to talk about the conclusions
they drew in their article about the question
that served as the focus for the paper.
Archives
of newspaper coverage of September 11th can be
found at September11news.com
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