In the News A Unit for Investigating Newspapers
People want to know what is going on in their world. They want to know what their neighbors and elected officials are doing, what the weather will be like, where they can find a special sale, and what types of entertainment are available. All this information (and more) is available in a newspaper. This unit is designed to introduce students to the many forms of information and opinions they will find in their local and regional newspapers. Discover the wealth of information in your daily newspaper with this complete, simple-to-use guide. This unit includes lesson plans, worksheets, and special projects. Exploring this relevant, important form of mass communication is easy with the varied, practical activities in this book. Learn about: the history of newspapers, types of news articles, editorials, letters to the editors, and editorial cartoons, how to retrieve information from different sections, the funtion of advertisements, papers with special focuses, and more. Use these varied, practical activities to extend basic knowledge and build thinking skills. Grades 4-6
EducationElementaryTeaching Methods & MaterialsSocial ScienceMedia Studies
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERSourcebooks Incorporated
LENGTH48
LANGUAGEEN
Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer of historical fiction. Her adult novels are The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2009 and was named one of USA Today’s top tend books of the year, and The House of Velvet and Glass, which was a USA Today bestseller in 2011. For young adults, Katherine has written Conversion, which received the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in young adult literature, and a New York City-based literary ghost story called The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen, which was named a 2016 “Must Read” for young adults by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. In 2014 she edited The Penguin Book of Witches for Penguin Classics, a primary source reader on the history of witchcraft in England and North America which made a regional bestseller list and which has been translated into Spanish. The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, her new novel for adults, will be published by Henry Holt and Co in summer 2019. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” the BBC, and the History Channel, and she hosted “Salem: Unmasking the Devil” for National Geographic. Her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2015 she was the visiting writer in residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina, and she spent 2016 as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She holds a BA in art history and philosophy from Columbia and an MA in American and New England studies from Boston University, and she has taught American history, visual culture, and writing at BU and Cornell. Her first published works were three brief catalogue essays in an architectural monograph published by the Museum of Modern Art in 2000. A native Houstonian, she lives in New England and New York City with her family, where she is at work on her next novel. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.katherinehowe.com/
In the News A Unit for Investigating Newspapers
by Katherine Howe, Judith Edelstein, Mary Lou Johnson
People want to know what is going on in their world. They want to know what their neighbors and elected officials are doing, what the weather will be like, where they can find a special sale, and what types of entertainment are available. All this information (and more) is available in a newspaper. This unit is designed to introduce students to the many forms of information and opinions they will find in their local and regional newspapers. Discover the wealth of information in your daily newspaper with this complete, simple-to-use guide. This unit includes lesson plans, worksheets, and special projects. Exploring this relevant, important form of mass communication is easy with the varied, practical activities in this book. Learn about: the history of newspapers, types of news articles, editorials, letters to the editors, and editorial cartoons, how to retrieve information from different sections, the funtion of advertisements, papers with special focuses, and more. Use these varied, practical activities to extend basic knowledge and build thinking skills. Grades 4-6
EducationElementaryTeaching Methods & MaterialsSocial ScienceMedia Studies
RELEASED2007
PUBLISHERSourcebooks Incorporated
LENGTH48
LANGUAGEEN
Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer of historical fiction. Her adult novels are The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list in 2009 and was named one of USA Today’s top tend books of the year, and The House of Velvet and Glass, which was a USA Today bestseller in 2011. For young adults, Katherine has written Conversion, which received the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in young adult literature, and a New York City-based literary ghost story called The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen, which was named a 2016 “Must Read” for young adults by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. In 2014 she edited The Penguin Book of Witches for Penguin Classics, a primary source reader on the history of witchcraft in England and North America which made a regional bestseller list and which has been translated into Spanish. The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs, her new novel for adults, will be published by Henry Holt and Co in summer 2019. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” the BBC, and the History Channel, and she hosted “Salem: Unmasking the Devil” for National Geographic. Her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2015 she was the visiting writer in residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University in North Carolina, and she spent 2016 as a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She holds a BA in art history and philosophy from Columbia and an MA in American and New England studies from Boston University, and she has taught American history, visual culture, and writing at BU and Cornell. Her first published works were three brief catalogue essays in an architectural monograph published by the Museum of Modern Art in 2000. A native Houstonian, she lives in New England and New York City with her family, where she is at work on her next novel. ([source][1]) [1]: https://www.katherinehowe.com/
