Goal of this project:     The purpose of this project is to improve upon our organizational skills, understanding of historical information, writing skills, and test preparedness.

 

Part 2 a.   Create a “Ancient Newspaper”:  (1 PAGE TYPED 12 FONT DOUBLE SPACE)

 

Directions:  You will create a newspaper with 3 separate news articles related to one of the following topics, ancient Greece (Athens and Sparta), the Roman Empire, or the Han Dynasty

 

1.  Create a cover page with a name for the newspaper, the band we meet, and your full name

2.  Each article must have a title.

3.  Each article needs to be 10-12 sentences long minimum.

4.  The articles need to be written in your own words, and need to show creativity.

 

Tips and requirements: 

a. A cover page with your name, band, and the name of your newspaper is required. (you may include a picture)

b. The articles must be written in your own words.

c. You are required to give each article a title, for example if you chose ancient Greece one of the articles could focus on the Olympics: a creative title could be à ‘Why The Olympics Still Matter 254 B.C.E.’

d. When writing the article keep in mind it is not a historical account of the past.  Meaning no past tense for example, do not say Ancient Athens lasted from 340 B.C.E to 220 B.C.E.

e. Instead it should sound like a newspaper that was written during the time period. 

A couple of sentence starters would be:

-In today’s news…                                                    

-Today in the heart of Rome tragedy struck…

- Recently there was a new invention…                    

-Breaking news….

 

f. You must research information from an acceptable source.  See samples below.

g. Do not copy information directly from sources without citing, a paper that is fully plagiarized can and will receive a zero.

 

 

PART2b. Bibliography for the “Ancient Newspaper”:  You must list the sources that you used for part 2a. 

 

Acceptable sources:  academic web-sites, books, history.com, national geographic, pbs, eyewitness history, discovery, historyforkids.com, bbc.com/history/forkids, olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games/history, ancient.eu/Colosseum

 

Not acceptable sources:  Class handouts, the textbook, an encyclopedia, search engines ex. Yahoo, megaessays.com, Wikipedia, e-cheat.com, Ducksters.com/history, answers.com

 

You must use a minimum of 3 sources.