Civil War Newspaper Assignment

Due Dates:
Assigned: November 29, 2007
First Draft Due: December 3, 2007
Final Due Date: December 14, 2007

Assignment:
You and a partner are assigned the task of choosing a more in depth topic from the list below and creating a section of the Civil War Times newspaper. You must choose your partner, the topic you will be focusing on and the medium you will be using (i.e. cartoon, editorial, advertisement, etc)

ALL AVAILABLE TOPICS AND MEDIUMS ARE IN BOLD!

List of Topics:

Draft Riots in the North
Bread Riots in the South
Civil War medicine
First Bull Run
Wilderness Campaign
Siege of Vicksburg
Sherman's march to the sea
Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus
Brady's photographs
Sanitation commission
Confederate economy
Appomattox
Fremont’s Proclamation
General US Grant
Gen. George McClellan
General Robert E Lee
Gen. Stonewall Jackson
54th Massachusetts (Film "Glory" is about them)
Juneteenth
Paying for substitutes
Letters from soldiers
Sherman’s Order (40 acres and a mule)

List of Mediums-(Numbers of entries allowed)
Newspaper article (8)
Editorial (biased in favor of one side) (6)
Political cartoon (2)
Advertisement (4)
Advice column (2)

How to reserve a topic and a medium-
One person in the pair needs to post your request for both topic and medium in the comment section just below this entry. IF SOMEONE HAS ALREADY POSTED YOUR TOPIC OR THERE ARE ALREADY THE NUMBER ALLOWABLE MEDIUMS (i.e. 4 advertisements). YOU NEED TO CHOOSE ANOTHER.

In the comment area write and select "anonymous" to send:

Names in group-
Topic-
Medium-