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- Grade Range
- 5th - 6th
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Students produce a class/school newspaper and communicate class and school activities to other students, teachers, and parents. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 12th
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Students create a newsletter for their classroom and/or school. They visit a local newspaper and learn about the various jobs at a newspaper, then divide into groups. Each group is responsible for creating a particular section of the newspaper. When completed, each group shares their section with the class. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students develop one in-depth/investigative article as a way to add substance and topical issues to the school newspaper. After studying an article on special education, students develop their own articles for the newspaper. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explain diversity and its importance to the press They analyze the diversity of the high school community. They expose the staff to diversity stories in daily newspapers and magazines. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students design a sample newspaper with the goal of having their design (or portions of their design) chosen for use during the following year. The focus of this project is layout and design and to improve the school publication. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students conduct a complete redesign of their school newspaper. This lesson could be adapted for any high school newspaper which needs an update. They view examples of many school newspapers to gather ideas of ways to improve their own. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students create a classroom newspaper where each student was responsible for preparing an article on a specified topic. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students work with partners to develop an online school newspaper with areas devoted to current news, sports and editorials. They publish their newspaper on the school website and rotate through different roles in producing the paper. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students listen to headline from National Enquirer or other tabloid, listen to story "Journalism in Tennessee," compare and contrast connections between Twain's idea of journalism with present day journalism, define vocabulary, and identify at least three examples of hyperbole, journalistic slant, and humor. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Student design, edit, and layout a computer-generated school newspaper four times a year. They collect and write about school events and work in small groups to layout each issue using graphics and word processing. Full Review »

