Your task is to write a newspaper article about the events that you witnessed during the Salem Witch Trials.  You will use a newsletter format to produce this assignment.

        You will read the links below to get the information for your article and to find out about the trials.
(After reading the articles, you will need to click the back button() to return to this page.)

Salem Witch Trials Museum

  Salem Witch Trials Memorial

  Salem Witch Timeline

  Information on the Salem Witch Trials

      Once you have read the information in the links and made any notes necessary, you are ready to write your article.
 

	In your article you will write about your experience.
	What you write is up to you, but make sure you include factual information about the Salem Witch Trials from the articles you read.
	It's your story, so you can choose to interview some of the accused, interview some of the townspeople, interview the judges, whatever you want to do with this news-breaking story.
	Be as creative as you want to be!

Things to think about: Include who, what, when, where, why, and how. Make sure you include details of what you witnessed. How did seeing what transpired make you feel? Do you think sentencing these men and women to death was right? Are you going to include pictures*?

 

How to produce your article using a newsletter format: Go to Start (lower left side of the computer) Click on Programs, then Microsoft Publisher. Click on "Publications for Print," select "Newsletters," and the select the style you would like to use. Compose your article Be sure to save your article to your student folder (S: drive) so you can edit it if necessary A good headline includes an action verb *To copy pictures from the Internet, right click on the picture, then select "Copy".  Then, paste it into your newspaper article.

This assignment is worth a total of 40 points. 20 points for correct factual information 10 points for including events that you witnessed (include factual and made up information 5 points for staying in the frame of mind of a seventeenth century citizen 5 points for the amount of effort put into the assignment

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