View the newspaper sites to print out a story format
sheet and a reporting tips checklist if you are writing an article. Then
begin your research by using the colonial websites, books or videos from our
library. Your article must be typed and printed in the computer lab and then
pasted onto the final newspaper.
Online
Resources for writing newspapers
Newspaper story format
http:/
/www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson249/format.pdf
Reporting tips
checklist:
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson249/tips.pdf
Websites
on Colonial Life
An index to sites about Colonial
Life:
http:
//www.hfmgv.org/education/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html
The lives of famous early
Americans:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/lives/index.html
Actual articles from colonial
newspapers arranged according to subject and year: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Newspapers/subj
ects/default.htm?
Actual obituaries of famous colonial Americans:
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/obits/list.html
List of Resource Links to
Colonial American topics arranged by subject:
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm
Site on colonial life from Lexington,
Mass.:
http://hastings.ci.lexington.ma.us/Colonial/Life/Life.html
In-depth site from Colonial
Williamsburg dealing with all aspects of colonial life: http://www.colonialwilliam
sburg.org/History/
View life in colonial times
through the eyes of kids :
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/introduction.htm
An index of colonial sites from
Yahooligans!: http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/around_the_worl
d/countries/united_states/history/colonial_life__1585_1783_/
Daily life in the colonies from the
PBS
series Liberty:
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/perspectives/dailylife.html
Books in our
Library:
Colonial Jobs and Trades: Non-fiction
section – 646.7-686.2
Colonial crafts books:
Non-fiction section - 745.5
Daily life in the colonies: Non-
fiction
section - 973.2
Videos in our
Library:
Colonial Life: call number - AV
973.2 CO
Life
in Early American Colonies: call number - AV
973.2 LI
