The Jamestown Newsletter

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Procedures:

1. Introduce students to the following sites:

• Jamestown Rediscovery
• Virtual Jamestown
  
  * These sites, as well as the topics link below, will open in a new window. To return to this page, close the new window by clicking on the X in the upper right corner.

2. Give students a few possible topics for their stories. Encourage them to think about what settlers would want and need to read about in a newsletter.

3. Have students look for pictures or graphics to accompany their story.

4. Using a basic word processing program that will allow graphics and or pictures to be inserted, have students work together to design a newsletter that incorporates the entire class' stories. It is useful to divide students into groups with specific tasks, e.g. naming the newsletter and designing a graphic, laying out the articles and images, checking for grammatical and spelling mistakes.