Students will write one editorial concerning an event of their birth year. Students will research an issue and find a political cartoon on that issue and include it in the newspaper. Students will construct a visual from their birth year. This can be a drawing, a poster, etc. Students must prepare the questions in advance and write out the answers or use a tape recorder for oral history.
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My students enjoy this activity. It gives them a sense of perspective and identifies this place in history. Since most students in the same grade were born about the same year, an in depth study of a single year shows how history must be condensed in history books.