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What's Black and White and Read Later?

Subject:	Language Arts, History Ed. Technology
Grade:	6-8

Brief Description

Students learn what makes "lasting news" as they work in groups to create a newspaper about the year in which they were born (1986, 1987, or 1988).

Objectives

Student objectives can be found online at the WebQuest's Teacher Information page.

Keywords

Not Specified

Materials Needed

computers with Internet access; Adobe PageMaker, Microsoft Word, or similar software for creating a newspaper

Lesson Plan

The entire lesson can be found online at What News is Important Enough to be Read years Later?

Assessment

Evaluate students' newspapers using the Group Newspaper Rubric

Lesson Plan Source

Denise Dejonghe, Abbott Middle School, West Bloomfield, Michigan

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