The Day the World Changed (n31)

will learn different types of articles that comprise

a newspaper and write examples based on the events

students to bring a copy of a newspaper to class

on a given day. Point out the following types

of articles; news, features, editorials, advertisements,

sports., syndicated columns, political cartoons.

Discuss the basic differences in each of these

types of articles. Obviously if you are teaching

journalism you will want to go into more depth,

but for the purposes of this assignment, you want

to give students a sense of the different type

of articles included in a typical newspaper.

Assign groups of students the task of creating

a special edition newspaper that will be published

for students at their grade level to deal with

the following question:

How did September 11 change the world?

All articles for the paper must deal in some way

with this question.

Newspapers should include at least 5 different

types of articles.

When papers are completed display or duplicate.

Give students the chance to talk about the conclusions

they drew in their article about the question

of newspaper coverage of September 11th can be