Your assignment is to find a news story from one of the linked sources below and to select one of the stories to represent. Your task is to represent all the major facts of the news story. Students are encouraged to engage in many different forms of presenting the news article they have chosen.
Great news sites to follow:
Possible ways to represent the news story:
Poster showing the main facts
Point-form list of the facts
Power-point presentation sharing all the different facts
Dramatic representation – recreate the scene, a panel of “experts”, fake interviews, and more…
an in-person news report or oral presentation (example)
A short video that explains the news story
paper slide video (example)
Musical – create a song, wrap, or dance (example)
an animation
write-up summary
a short story about the news story showing a point of view
whiteboard animation/drawing video showing the news story idea (example)
suggest an alternative (get creative)
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