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GreenMount School Explores How News Media Works

Students at the school performed skits about the news and its role in historical events.

Students at the GreenMount School in Remington have studied how the news media works and how it has developed throughout American history.

On Thursday students in kindergarten through eighth grade performed skits demonstrating for their family and friends how the media works, explored seminal events in American history and then engaged in breakout groups to discuss the issues.

Skits:

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  • Kindergarten “The Age of Paperless”
  • Sixth, seventh and eighth grades: Early forms of sharing information
  • First and second grades: Gutenberg’s revolution
  • Third grade: Reporting the American Revolution
  • Fourth and fifth grades: Lincoln and Kennedy Assassinations
  • Sixth, seventh and eighth grades: The 19th Amendment and hard news versus yellow journalism  
  • Sixth, seventh and eighth grade: 1971 Journalism’s biggest year
  • Sixth, seventh and eighth grades: John Brown’s Raid “What If?”


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