This newspaper is designed as a culminating activity for a unit in which we read an abridged text of The Iliad. This newsletter is designed to familiarize eighth grade students with the process of creating all of the elements of a newsletter. This activity includes background information, grade sheets, directions for creating a newsletter and a sample newsletter. Students will write a five paragraph comparison and contrast essay on their findings. Finally, students will use the writing process through the ClarisWorks word processing.
Many students have a mental block when it comes to poetry.
By analyzing words, phrases and levels of meaning, the students will put the poetic interpretations back together to understand the poem. After classroom instruction investigating advertising techniques, students will use ClarisWorks to create magazine ads for products or services they create. Biography Research ClairsWorks and Internet Students will read a biography and one or two other sources related to the same person focusing on what this person has discovered, invented, or achieved. Included will be the actions and decisions made by the person to accomplish such importance. They, as pairs or individually, will select and copy one poem with which to work during slide show preparation.