After they've completed their oral histories, students conduct secondary source research using the internet and library resources to learn more about the backgrounds of their family's cultural and ethnic heritages. Students write reports, including a summary of their research findings to be shared with friends and families. Students should draw on the criteria developed during their initial explorations to guide the format of their reports. School Newspaper Unit Students will research and write articles that will be published in an electronic newspaper. Students will choose their beats and decide what areas of school and community news they will cover.
Students assemble and format their stories and layout their electronic newspaper.
A variety of styles, from simple single block layouts to more complicated multiple columns are possible. Further Study of Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Students work in pairs to critique each other's work. The Web provides an excellent medium for compiling and displaying student portfolios. In this unit students and teachers will create Web portfolios of students' work.