This research project is a cross-curricular activity exposing you to some of the historical regions you will be studying this year in history, while also completing our “Storytelling” unit in English.
Your task will be a time traveling news reporter. You will be gathering research about REAL events that occurred during the Roman or Greek era. As a reporter, you will take notes as you learn about the life and times of your topic. You will submit your notes with your final product which will be a Horrible Histories Newspaper using the provided electronic newspaper templates.
Please complete the steps below to help you create your Horrible Histories Newspaper:
You will submit the following on October 31st:
- The focus of this unit is to analyze writing styles of the “scary story” genre so that you may incorporate those techniques in your final performance task for this unit. You have been given an alternate assignment for the Haunted History Report being done by your classmates.
- To continue with the cross-curricular theme and to incorporate expository writing, you will complete the steps below and submit your final product on October 31st.
Your task will be a time traveling news reporter. You will be gathering research about REAL events that occurred during the Roman or Greek era. As a reporter, you will take notes as you learn about the life and times of your topic. You will submit your notes with your final product which will be a Horrible Histories Newspaper using the provided electronic newspaper templates.
Please complete the steps below to help you create your Horrible Histories Newspaper:
- Choose between Rotten Romans or Groovy Greeks
- Click the appropriate link to begin watching the Horrible History lesson about your time period.
- Create a reporter's notebook out of notebook paper.
- Take organized notes as you watch the YouTube playlist.
- Once you have completed your Horrible History viewing, select the most informative/bizarre/interesting topics you learned about while conducting your research. (Make sure you choose topics you can write about)
- Select one of the newspaper creator links to begin creating your report. As the Reporter and Editor of your Horrible Histories Newspaper, you have the creative freedom to set up the layout any way you choose.
- Once you've decided on your newspaper format, begin building your newspaper by writing articles about your favorite topics you learned about. Your goal is to report back the gory facts you learned about that AREN'T included in the standard history books.
- Make sure you include attention grabbing titles for each article you write.
- Include interesting images that enhance your topic/article
- Make sure you pay attention to the basics: spelling, grammar, writing structure
- Your newspaper must be at least two complete pages
- Your newspaper must include a minimum of 4 different articles about the interesting/bizarre/ funny topics of your choice
- One article must be about a famous historical person of the time period and include a picture
- You must create a "works cited" page giving credit to the authors of the resources you used for your newspaper. (Please see the EZ Bib link on the Haunted History Page to help you with this. I will go over it in class before the due date.)
- A printed copy of your newspaper must be submitted with your reporter notes on the given due date.
You will submit the following on October 31st:
- Reporter's Notebook
- Typed and Printed copy of your Horrible Histories Newspaper (at least 2 pages -- 5 articles total)
- 4 articles are your free choice topics about interesting/bizarre/funny facts of the time period
- 1 article must be about a famous person of the time period which also includes a picture
- Make sure you come up with a creative title for your newspaper and your article headings!
- A printed copy of your "Works Cited" page
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