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Newspaper
Kind of Activity:
Research
Objective:
Students will learn to adopt different writing styles and "translate" poetry into prose
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.6, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5
Structure:
For this assignment, the students will create contemporary "news reports" about the Anglo-Irish or the Irish Civil War, based on Yeats' poems, as well as outside research.
For the first 15 minutes, the students can research the topic online.
Then, in 15-20 they will create a newspaper-style short article, headline and all, reporting on the progress of the war. They should make sure to draw from Yeats as well as their research.
The...
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