News+Literacy

=Creative Collaborative Ventures=

The Creative Outcome:
Students will create a comic strip highlighting the current religious, economic and political happening in another country/region based on their research, prior knowledge, and front page of newspapers from that country/region.

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Students will access newspapers via Newseum.com and create their comic strip using ToonDoo.

Time frame: 3-4 class periods, 50 minutes each Prerequisites: Internet access, prior study of assigned regions, prior usage of animoto or ToonDoo preferred. Monetary Cost: None
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Tool 1: (Name of Tool)
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