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Wyoming Standards:
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Reading: Students read a variety of grade level
materials, applying strategies appropriate to various situations.
Writing: Students write for a variety of purposes
and audiences with sophistication and complexity appropriate to the grade
level.
Number Operation and Concepts: Students use number,
number sense, and number relationships in a problem-solving situation. Students communicate the reasoning used
in solving these problems.
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Performance Task:
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You will create a newspaper with a focus on
medieval times. You will work with
a group to determine articles to include in newspaper. The group will research the time period
to develop subject matter appropriate to the time frame. The finished product will be
computer-generated with graphics.
It must include at least one main article, one human-interest story,
one editorial, one sports article, one commercial advertisement, and
several want ads. Additional
articles or more than one article per topic could enhance grade. Extra articles will not take the place
of the required articles. Your
newspaper should resemble a modern paper and should also include a
masthead, date, and bylines.
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Knowledge / Skills:
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Apply in writing the rules and conventions of
grammar, usage, punctuation, paragraphing and spelling. (ela1)
Gather information from a variety of sources,
including electronic sources, and summarize, analyze, and evaluate its use
for a report. (ela3)
Participate, sometimes leading, in group
meetings by contributing, taking turns speaking, and working toward a
common goal. (ela20)
Understand and produce a variety of informative
formats such as business letters, memos, reports, news articles, brochures,
proposals and critiques. (ela22)
Understand the nature and purpose of a variety
of technical formats such as business letters, memos, instructions, policy
statements, technical proposals, user manuals, lab reports, etc. (ela30)
Use writing as a way of expressing personal
creativity. (ela31)
Apply an understanding of the meaning of
graphics, layout, white space, italics, parentheses, and other visual
aids. (ela68)
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