Mr. Adams's Teaching Site

1. First, your small group (3-4 students) must determine editorships and decide on who is writing which articles. You may need to browse a few of the websites below in order to decide your story ideas. Your editor in chief will make the final decisions on the story ideas.
   • STOP! Report your roles and article assignments to your teacher before proceeding.
2. Each create a file in our school google docs site. Share it with your groupmates so that you may each edit it on the computers.
3. Use the following links to research your topics
   • Streaming videos are posted at http://tinyurl.com/tkamvids. You’ll need a username and password, which your teacher can provide for you.
     
   • ALL TOPICS! Check these pages first.
     
     • American Culture in the 1930s.
     • Great Depression Overview
     • Remember Segregation This site has a lot of information about protest and Martin Luther King, Jr. Please remember that MLK’s protests took place decades AFTER the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, so your articles should not deal with protest.
     • Race Relations in the South in the 1930s
   • Life in Maycomb County in the 30s
     • Growing up White in the South
     • Growing up Black in the South
     • Official site of Monroeville, AL, home of Harper Lee and probable model for the fictional Maycomb, AL
     • Map of “Maycomb, AL”
     • The Scottsboro Trials, real trials that bear resemblance to the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird
     • More about The Scottsboro Trials
   • How the federal government tried to help the country out of the depression
     • PBS: Stock Market Crash
     • History Channel New Deal Timeline
     • Great Depression Overview
     • The New Deal
   • Segregation
     • How the Great Depression affected African Americans
     • History Channel: Brown vs. Board of Education (VIDEO)
     • Brown vs. Board of Education
     • PBS: Rise and Fall of Segregation
   • Alabama football in the 30s (optional)
     • Bear Bryant Museum
     • Alabama Football History (DOWNLOADS)
     • Wikipedia
4. Write each article about an EVENT of DAILY LIFE in Maycomb County. You will need to invent an event, however, it should be something that would have happened in that setting, based on what you’ve learned in your research. Your article should not just be about your topic, but it should ILLUSTRATE your topic.
   • Here is a site that will help you understand how to write a news story. Check it out.
5. Edit each other’s work. Be honest but kind with each other. Your grade depends on doing a good job working together and revising.
6. Lay-out your newspaper using iWork Pages. Ctrl+Click here, then choose “Save Link As …” to download the template (right click on a PC). EAHS Students may also get this file from Mr. Adams’s distribution folder on the student server.
7. Add images. Include the URL where you found your images in the glory box on the second page.
8. When you are finished, practice presenting your product. Your editor in chief need not be your lead presenter, but each group member must speak and contribute to the presentation in order for your group to achieve the best grade (see rubric).
9. You will present your product to the class in a 3-4 minute explanation of the articles, the images you chose, and what surprised each of you in your research.

Be guided by our rubric.