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The Mini Page — 2009 Activities
News You Can Use
Issue 37
Sept. 12-28, 2009
This week's standards:
Activities:
1. Draw a newspaper with four headlines you'd like to see in the news.
2. In your newspaper, circle the names of local reporters who cover news, sports and entertainment sections.
3. Find a story about local or national government. Write a paragraph telling why we should know about that piece of news.
4. What would be a good news story for (a) a family member, (b) a friend, and
(c) a teacher?
5. Read a major national news story. List the key facts from the story. Now find the same story on the Internet. Write a sentence comparing the stories.
Standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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