THE
COLD WAR NEWS
United States History
Mr. Pawlak |
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Attention News Staff:
Your assignment is for your class to compose and issue a
SPECIAL EDITION
of a newspaper about all aspects of
the COLD WAR up to 1960.
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Each student will have a role, described below, in creating this newspaper.
Consult the rubric
and the required content to determine
your course of action!
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Deadline: May 2, 2008
Articles and photographs in Microsoft Word will be put in Editor's DropBox
as well as Mr. Pawlak's dropbox (rpawlak).
Each reporter/photographer team will put a bibliography
with at least three different sources in MLA format into Mr. Pawlak's
dropbox (rpawlak).
How to name your files: You will be submitting two Microsoft
Word files to Mr. Pawlak. You will use your last names plus the word
"art" for article and "bib" for bibliography. So,
if Sally Jones and Bobby Smith are working together Mr. Pawlak will
get two documents from them, one entitled "jonessmithart.doc"
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International News
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National News
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Resources for this project:
Three sources minimum. You must use:
~one ebook**
~the online text book**
~one or more of the recommended websites |
Document your sources |
Thomson Gale Virtual Reference Library**
This is where the
ebooks are!
Primary Source Material: Interview Cold War Survivors!
Got some living ancestors? |
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Recommended Websites:
CNN
Library of Congress: Marshall
Plan
Cold
War Hot Links
NASA
on Sputnik
People,
Issues, Events and Organizations from Sparticus School
Primary Sources from
The National Archives
Primary Sources from Teachers
Discovering History as Historians
National Endowment for the Humanities Origins
of the Cold War
NEH Police
Action and the Korean War
NEH Anticommunism
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Role: The Editor-in-Chief
will proofread the articles and correct any errors.
will also write an editorial which puts the newspaper in particular,
and the Cold War in general, in perspective.
The editor in chief will work with Mr. Pawlak to combine
all of the articles into one newspaper.
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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Role: Reporter & Photographer
Each article will have one reporter and one photographer.
Both the reporter and the photographer will work together on the article,
researching and documenting the article and its picture.
All reporters/photographers are to ask these questions
of themselves (and their subject matter):
Who was involved?
What did this event concern?
When did it occur?
Where did it occur?
How was it resolved?
Why was it important to the United States?
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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Required Content,
European Bureau articles:
~Descending of the Iron Curtain
~ containment
~ George F. Kennan
~ the Truman Doctrine
~ the Marshall Plan
~the Berlin Airlift
~ the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Does your article address these
questions?
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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Required Content,
Asiatic Bureau articles:
~ China becoming communist,
~Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao, (background for the article on the Korean
War)
~ the Korean War
~ 38 th parallel
~ Kim Il Sung
~ Syngman Rhee, police action, Inchon,
~ Douglas MacArthur, armistice
~ Demilitarized Zone, Panmunjom,
~ Domino Theory
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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Required Content,
U.S. Bureau:
~the GI Bill
~ the Baby Boom
~the Fair Deal
~ the rise of the suburbs
~ the House Un-American Activities Committee
~ the Hollywood Ten
~ Alger Hiss, Klaus Fuchs, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg {spies})
~ Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism, the Red Scare
~ the National Defense Education Act
~ the Space Race
~ duck and cover, fallout shelters
~ the Federal Highway Act
Does your article address these
questions?
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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Required Content,
Local News:
~an advice column
~ ads, movie and book reviews
~a television schedule (Mr. Pawlak will provide you with a listing of
shows; you will come up with your own made up plot based on the characters
in the show)
~ music review
~ political cartoon
~ funny section
~ sports
~ fashion and fads.
Take note of deadlines. Here are your sources. Cite them! Back
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