Your assignment:
Remember that you will be writing the lead article about the fires, their causes, and their impact in next week’s paper. You must sift through the evidence you discovered to determine how the fires began and decide whether these fires were part of an Abolitionist plot or whether they were an accident then used by southern extremist to emotionally sway Texans toward secession. Your job is to write a newspaper article to relate the facts to your readership, keeping your readership’s political leanings in mind.
- Your newspaper article should be between 1500 and 3000 words and contain all the pertinent evidence necessary to support your position. It must be written strictly according to your chosen role and you will be graded accordingly. Please see the paper grading rubric for more information about the paper requirements. Once you have written your article, you must post it on your group’s “Texas Troubles” discussion board. There you will find article’s posted by other reporters. Some will have political leanings similar to your own but others will represent papers with greatly divergent interests.
- In addition to posting your own article, you are required to interact and respond to at least two other postings in the discussion.
