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A Choice of Voice

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Team work can produce great results. Your class will analyze the design, news content, and demographic profiles of local alternative newsweeklies. They then design and write articles for their own community working together as editorial and production teams being sure to cite resources.

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6th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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1 hr
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