Teacher Lesson Plan 4
Title:
Ancient Egyptian Daily News
Subject:
Ancient
Grade Level:
5th Grade
Time Duration:
1 lab period of approximately 45 - 60
minutes.
Overview:
Students
will examine some online “primary source documents.” They will then each choose one they like and
write a short newspaper article about it.
The article will be quite short and can all be put together to form a
class newspaper.
Objectives:
The Learner will:
·
Research primary
documents online
·
Locate an
document they want to write about
·
Write a short
synopsis about the article they read
Materials:
·
Computer
·
Internet
connection
·
Paper
·
Pencils
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Hand out with URLs
of the web sites to be used or have them bookmarked and ready to go
·
TeamBoard if
available, this is a nice too for projecting web sites on to a screen for group
viewing.
·
http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wardtexts.shtml This site contains primary legal
documents
·
MS Publisher
software (optional, only used if you want the students to put together the
newspaper)
Activities and Procedures:
1.
Explain to
students what primary source documents are.
Ask them why they think primary source documents are important. Ask them what we might learn when we examine
primary source documents.
2.
Explain that they
will be looking at primary source documents online. They will read all the documents and then
choose one. They will then write a short newspaper article centered around the
document they read. (They are going to
use the information to create a fictitious story.)
3.
Have students
click on the student page for this lesson and begin.
4.
When all the
newspaper articles have been written, put them together for the students and
call your newspaper something such as The Ancient Egyptian Daily News.
5.
You may wish to
use MS Publisher to create your newspaper.
Have students type in their reports in their spare time.
Conclusion:
Tell
students that their next project will be to create a brochure to entice people
to move to ancient
© 2002 J. Napier-Faeih 
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