Novels in the News
One project that incorporates well into both novels and plays is creating a newspaper. Using local weekly and daily papers to see what types of articles should be included, students work in small groups to design and create the newspaper. Publisher is a great program because the templates for newsletters work so well. This project exposes them to a different type of writing. We discuss what events in the novel/play qualify as hard news for the front page, events that would entice a reader to write a letter to the editor, local weather related to setting, obituaries, human interest stories, and even the classifieds have appeared in these newspapers. The final product is reproduced so that each student has a copy of the newspapers and we spend a day reading.
This project is done almost exclusively in the classroom. Revisions and proofreading is done by students and the instructor. The details that students include in their stories are then discussed pointing out how they reveal theme, character, symbol, motif, etc. I use a rubric to grade the newspapers.
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