Conflicting Newspaper Accounts

In this lesson students write newspapers about the Battle of Antietam from different points of view (North and South).  Students begin by analyzing photographs of the battlefield; they then write their papers covering a variety of topics, and then they read and analyze the Emancipation Proclamation. This is an excellent cross-curricular lesson that combines analyzing media, studying a historical event from differing perspectives, and writing newspaper accounts of the event.

Lesson Variations

Blooms taxonomy level: 
Understanding

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