News+Cast

News Cast Project  ﻿  Day 1   Students will be divided into groups that will create a newscast that will be videoed and presented to the class. 1- Each group must choose an important historical event the occured during the civil war in Arkansas. Examples of events that would be appropriate are any of the 17 battles in Arkansas, the execution of David O Dodd, the Union take over of Little Rock, concession convention. Groups are not limited to these examples, but the event that your group decides on must be approved by me. 2- Group must decide if they will be doing a live report from the event, anchor newscast, report after the event has occured or a combination of the previous. 3- Develope a script that includes when, where, why and how. I also want the group to decide if the story will be reported in a favorable or non favorable to the Confederates or the Union. The information that is reported must be accurate and the group must list the references where the information was obtained. References can include but are not limited to: books, websites and videos. Everyone in the group has to be included in the script. Day 2  Using the script that was created day 1 the groups will produce a video using flip video cameras. Each student in the group must appear in the video. Present the video to the class!!!