To Kill a Mockingbird

Newspaper

Minimum Requirements:

1. Choose several events (at least five) that occur in the book. Write an article, editorial, or essay about each event.
2. Make sure to include some coverage of the trial.
3. The newspaper needs to reflect the attitudes and lifestyles of the townspeople.
4. Your newsletter should include illustrations for your articles.
5. Name your newsletter. (Be creative!)

Hints:

• Remember the different types of newsletter articles: fiction, non-fiction, sports, advertisements, letters to the editor, church news, and obituaries.
• You can use magazines to cut out pictures if you don’t want to draw or clip art from the computer.
• Your pages can have several columns, allowing you to fit more information.
• You can include quotes from the novels.
• Use the facts from the book as your starting point. You will have to add a little information based on what you already know (quotes, more detail, approximate dates, etc.)
• Please type the newspaper if at all possible. We will spend at least one class period in the computer lab. The library is open before and after school if you need to use a computer.

Rubric

Five Original Pieces of Writing

Content—quotes, closeness to book

/20

Grammar, spelling, punctuation

/15

Illustrations

/5

Appearance

/10