The Red Badge of Courage Lesson Plan

Journalistic Objectivity

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to identify, analyze and practice journalistic writing.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4

Structure:

Students will write a journalistic account of the battle as if they were a reporter embedded with the regiment.

Begin this activity with a discussion about what it means to write in a journalistic style. Consider the following links for discussion about objectivity and journalism:

New Journalism

Journalistic Objectivity

Have them compare and contrast what they find with the style of the narrator in the story.

Have students write the piece as if they are a reporter...