Lesson Plan : Big City vs. Small Town (Com/Con)
Teacher Name: | Margie Llana |
Grade: | Grade 9-10 |
Subject: | Literature Activities |
Topic: | To compare and contrast the lead stories of both the "Austin American Statesman" and the "Thorndale Champion". |
Content: | Students will be required to detail the differences in the subject matter of small town news compared to big city news. |
Goals: | To determine the insignificance of the major small town news as compared to the pressing big city news. |
Objectives: | For the students to realize what they may deem important in their small town newspaper is somewhat trivial to a more global outlook. |
Materials: | Clippings of the lead story from both the "Austin American Statesman" and the "Thorndale Champion". |
Introduction: | Start with the handing out of the lead stories in both papers and telling students that they are to, by the end of the lesson, have compared/contrasted both of these stories. |
Development: | Discussion of differences in stories. |
Practice: | Each student will come up with five differences and five similarities and write them on a sheet of paper. |
Accommodations: | None. |
Checking For Understanding: | Read aloud and discuss some of the students' paragraphs. |
Closure: | Students turn in what they have written for a grade. |
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