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Learners explore the critical role that closeness and proximity play in the success of a war reporter's writing as well as the drawbacks that this inevitably brings about. They discuss how situations like this could very well occur in their own scholastic writing. Students view a documentary on famous war correspondents and discuss what they saw in small groups.

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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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