1920s newspaper
project
This newspaper will be your summative assessment for the 1920s unit. You should already have some
articles from doing the homework during the unit— so you’ve already started! We will be looking through
newspapers to get ideas for how to write a newspaper. Below are some of the kinds of articles you’d find in a
newspaper:
• Regular news article (front page stuff)
OTHER KINDS OF ARTICLES
• Editorial (opinion article)
• Personal ad
• Advice column (Dear Abby)
• Advertisements
• Obituary (report on someone’s death)
• Sports article
• Entertainment review
• Cartoons
• Other????
1920s newspaper
project
This newspaper will be your summative assessment for the 1920s unit. You should already have some
articles from doing the homework during the unit— so you’ve already started! We will be looking through
newspapers to get ideas for how to write a newspaper. Below are some of the kinds of articles you’d find in a
newspaper:
• Regular news article (front page stuff)
OTHER KINDS OF ARTICLES
• Editorial (opinion article)
• Personal ad
• Advice column (Dear Abby)
• Advertisements
• Obituary (report on someone’s death)
• Sports article
• Entertainment review
• Cartoons
• Other????
Requirements
• You will need 3 regular articles and 3 other kinds of articles.
• You will need 2 articles about politics in the 20s, 2 articles about economics in the 20s,
and 2 articles about society and culture of the 20s. USE YOUR TEXTBOOK FOR
INFORMATION. DO NOT JUST MAKE THINGS UP! YOU NEED HISTORICAL FACTS!
• You may do more articles for brownie points!
• You may work with a partner, but then you must do 12 articles and you must decide ahead of time who
will do what articles and write a contract (that you will turn in) saying who will do what (that way if
your partner flakes out, you do not get punished).
You will be graded on:
• Having accurate information about the 1920s (Your reader needs to learn something)
• Having the correct number of articles and 2 articles of each topic
• Laying out your newspaper like a newspaper (not just a bunch of papers stapled together)
• Neatness, creativity
Note: Copying out of the textbook or off the
internet is not ok, and you will receive no
credit for what you copy. Everything must be
in your own words (unless you quote
someone). Don’t end up on the Plagiarism
Hall of Shame!
Requirements
• You will need 3 regular articles and 3 other kinds of articles.
• You will need 2 articles about politics in the 20s, 2 articles about economics in the 20s,
and 2 articles about society and culture of the 20s. USE YOUR TEXTBOOK FOR
INFORMATION. DO NOT JUST MAKE THINGS UP! YOU NEED HISTORICAL FACTS!
• You may do more articles for brownie points!
• You may work with a partner, but then you must do 12 articles and you must decide ahead of time who
will do what articles and write a contract (that you will turn in) saying who will do what (that way if
your partner flakes out, you do not get punished).
You will be graded on:
• Having accurate information about the 1920s (Your reader needs to learn something)
• Having the correct number of articles and 2 articles of each topic
• Laying out your newspaper like a newspaper (not just a bunch of papers stapled together)
• Neatness, creativity
Note: Copying out of the textbook or off the
internet is not ok, and you will receive no
credit for what you copy. Everything must be
in your own words (unless you quote
someone). Don’t end up on the Plagiarism
Hall of Shame!
1920s newspaper rubric
________ Accurate information about the 20s
________ Correct number of articles, 2 of each topic
________ Looks like a newspaper
________ Neatness and creativity
________ GRADE
1920s newspaper rubric
________ Accurate information about the 20s
________ Correct number of articles, 2 of each topic
________ Looks like a newspaper
________ Neatness and creativity
________ GRADE
1920s newspaper rubric
________ Accurate information about the 20s
________ Correct number of articles, 2 of each topic
________ Looks like a newspaper
________ Neatness and creativity
________ GRADE
1920s newspaper rubric
________ Accurate information about the 20s
________ Correct number of articles, 2 of each topic
________ Looks like a newspaper
________ Neatness and creativity
________ GRADE