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Iraq anniversary: No celebration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students read news articles/television reports about the D.C. protests and other similar war protests. They investigate the laws that relate to such protests. Students present their findings to the class.
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Writing a Personal Narrative

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
What is the difference between a news story and a personal narrative? This plan has learners write a personal narrative using the topic of service projects in their community. Consider completing a cross-curricular extension by bringing...
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Literary Response and Analysis

For Teachers 11th
Examine a variety of literary responses to Abraham Lincoln's death and the impact of perception. Your class can work in writing groups to analyze either poetry, eulogy, or a newspaper article. They retell the events of Abraham Lincoln's...
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Bbc News School Report: Bringing a Radio News Story To Life

For Students 7th - 8th
In this language arts worksheets, students read six tips for bringing a radio script to life. Students then add five tips of their own. No actual radio script is provided.
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Lesson Plan: The Black Press

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners examine the history of the black press. In this media awareness lesson, students watch videos and conduct research regarding the history of the black press in America. Learners explore media careers as they read provided...
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The Campaign: Issues and Strategies. Campaign Press Coverage

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students discuss and fill out worksheets on the amount and type of press coverage given to certain candidates. In this press coverage lesson plan, students complete 4 worksheets and view maps of the United States to see where the press...
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Connotation: Three Lessons for Effective Word Choice

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Over the course of three days, middle schoolers explore the concept of connotation. They differentiate between the connotative and denotative meanings of sports team names, develop their own team names, logos, and text, and revise a news...
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Our Class News

For Students 4th - 5th
In this class newspaper worksheet, students participate in creating a newspaper with 3 articles and 1 picture involving activities happening in their class at a specific time period.
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Articles: reading 3

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this articles worksheet, learners read the paragraph and fill in the blanks with articles. Students complete 13 blanks in the paragraph.
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Islam - Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, Hajj Article - Writing Frame

For Students 7th - 9th
In this writing frame worksheet, students report for a newspaper or magazine about the Islamic journey known as the Hajj. Students are asked to practice writing a headline, explain the Hajj itself, and use appropriate news language and...
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Local African News Stories

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students examine current event issues in Africa. In this global studies lesson plan, students select news articles from the provided website. Students make presentations on the news stories to their classmates.
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Your Angle on the Story

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review several articles on same current event, and then cover news issues themselves while assuming secret identities of various individuals who have vested interests in issue. Students write newspaper articles from these...
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Ticker Text Parade

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine news headlines and create very brief news pieces in the style of news tickers. They write papers reflecting upon these experiences and on the value of concisely written news reports.
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Race to the Presses

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore how the news media relays information about race in the United States by creating collages from newspapers and magazines and by sharing their reflections about the responsibilities of the news media in covering...
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Hurricane Katrina: You Be the Reporter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students work in a small group to create news stories, feature stories and editorials/letters to the editor and organize them in a podcast, video-based program, or newspaper/magazine focused on Hurricane Katrina.
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Walking Fast a Sign of Longer Life

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English activity, students discuss walking. Students conduct a survey about walking, write a short piece on walking, listen to and read an article about walking.
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Radio Free School

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. In small groups, students develop and write news segments for a student-centered radio program.
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Medieval News

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders engage in a lesson constructed in order to dissect the parts of a story used by the news media in order to communicate to the public. They use the media in order to help obtain information. Students create their own...
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Let the Pictures Tell the Story: Presenting a Point of View

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the process of writing a newspaper article that presents a point of view. They read various newspaper articles, analyze methods of persuasive writing, interpret and create editorial cartoons, and write an editorial.
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Shaping the News

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore television journalism. In this journalism lesson, students discuss the attributes of television broadcasting. Students then review their journalism code of ethics and then conduct research for stories that have a moral...
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Creating Our Newspapers

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students write newspaper articles in groups to form a class newspaper. In this newspaper lesson plan, students share their work with another group who critiques it.
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Words In The News

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students brainstorm the advantages and disadvantages of using a computer and the internet. They review vocabulary words, noticing letter patterns. Students read about the internet and play vocabulary exercises. Individually, students...
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When Things Go Wrong: Extension Work and Personal Search

For Students 6th - 10th
In this adultery worksheet, students read an article about adultery and then answer short answer questions about the article and about what happens to those people. Students complete 9 questions.
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Sleep Deprivation: the Incredible Experiment of Peter Tripp

For Students 3rd - 6th
For this sleep deprivation worksheet, students read an article on sleep deprivation and answer true or false questions about it. Students complete 15 questions.

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