Antietam Assignment

January, 2015

Mr. Lewis


During the Civil War, most Americans (and people in other countries) learned about the war from their local newspaper.  Newspaper correspondents traveled with the armies, and wrote reports from the front lines.  Unlike today, the reporters were not censored, but like today they were able to allow the politics of their readers to influence their stories. 

You and your partners  are a newspaper staff working in September 1862. Your job is to report the Battle of Antietam as completely as possible.  Field reports are available, as are photographs of the battle scene (consult the websites listed on the library pathfinder page). It’s your job to determine how to best cover the story, write it, and then to create stories for your “newspaper”, highlighting the following:

As a group, you should go about this task in the following manner:

You will submit the work to me as word processing documents. You SHOULD include images, but you SHOULD NOT try to make the documents "look like a newspaper." Each member of the group must submit an individual file.

Also, good newspaper stories answer the following questions (which should be familiar to you by now!):

Finally, an editorial is an opinion story, written in the first person plural.  The writer is trying to persuade her audience. A news story is factual, and in your case you will need to cite the sources of all of your information. 

 

Project Duration

This project will begin on Monday, January 12th and your papers are due on Friday, January 16th by 4:00 PM at the latest. The project will count for 30 points. You can earn up to 20 points for your individual contributions and up to 10 points for the collective group output.

NOTE: If you need to cite the packet I gave you, here is the info you will need:

Title: Antietam National Battlefield Teacher's Packet-High School
Author: National Park Service
Copyright Date: None
URL: http://www.nps.gov/anti/forteachers/upload/Revised-Teacher-Packet-HS.pdf
Date Accessed: Use January 16, 2015

Assignments

The following are the partners and assignments for the project:

 

Bell 4

Banks, Zhang, Guan

Nashville, Tennessee

Bao, Barrett, Switzer

Annapolis, Maryland

Fletcher, Kuai, Snow

New York City--Democratic

Leahy, Yu, OuYang

Charleston, South Carolina

Mancini, Yang, Wright

Boston, Massachusetts

Sung, Rickrode, Nguyen

Atlanta, Georgia





 

Bell 7

Austin, Bean, Vavlas

New York City--Republican

Buckingham, Chen, Chen

Richmond, Virginia

Conyngham, Fania, Hall

Lawrence, Kansas

Hanshaw, Lentine, Moss

Springfield, Illinois

Novinger, Park, Patel, Patil

London, England

Rogers, Seong, Sheth

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania