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Multiple Perspectives: Newspaper Stories and Editorials

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Newspapers are the perfect medium through which to explore different perspectives in informational text. After researching the fur trade and resultant colonization, groups write a newspaper, including an editorial page, selecting one of three different perspectives to write from. To stimulate visual learners, an art activity is completed to represent the effect of colonization on different groups.

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european colonization, Informational Text, perspective, point of view, social studies
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3rd - 6th
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Social Studies & History
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