Titanic Newspaper Project
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Unit Plan: Extra! Extra! Titanic Sinks
Students will gain a new perspective when they step back in time to create their very own newspaper page filled with facts about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Prior to the lessons in this unit, students will have spent 1-2 weeks reading, listening to, and discussing expository material on the Titanic. In this unit, they assume the roles of reporters, editors, and even survivors in order to put together a comprehensive front-page newspaper report that alerts the world to the disaster. Although these lessons focus on the Titanic tragedy, they can easily be adapted for use with other disasters or world events you may be teaching about in your classroom.
Writing an Informative News Article
In this lesson, students will learn that news writing is concise, factual, and informative by writing and publishing an article in a newspaper style using a word processing program.
Front Page News
Using their Titanic article, interview, and appropriate images, students will create a Titanic Front Page newspaper.
Books to Teach Titanic
Year after year, the Titanic component of my Disaster unit is a student favorite. Each year, I add new resources to my disaster collection. They're not only used for lessons, but are in high demand for independent reading time as well. I use the following books for the Titanic lessons (and many more,) but you can easily substitute your own titles to adapt the newspaper lessons in this unit to other
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