Letter to the Editor Sample Documents (16/2,3,4)

 Today you will be taking a short quiz on your Facebook Historical Research Project.  Please copy and paste the questions below into an email (if you are not in class to take the paper and pencil version of the quiz.  This is to see how much you remember from your research of the Historical Figure that was assigned to you.


Who is your historical figure?

Name three people on your historical figure’s “friend-list”.

   a.

   b.

   c.
Write 2-3 sentences about who your historical figure is/was:

Where did he/she live?  What period of history?

Write 2-3 sentences about what you learned by doing this project:

When you have completed the quiz, and successfully emailed it to me at hscribnercaa@gmail.com, you may continue to work on your Letter to the Editor project.  I have included a sample of what should be turned in for this project below.  Each picture is a step from the original directions.  I have chosen the following article to work with for my example Philly.Com Opinion Article (Click Here)

Article:  "Don't Set School Rules Based On Fear" by Bengston/Maranto (Philly.com Editorial)

STEP 1:  Read the articles about what makes a good "Letter To The Editor"

STEP 2:  Choose an opinion-based article on a topic you are interested in.

STEP 3:  Create a Summary of your article (SEE BELOW):

STEP 4:  Use your Summary to create a PERSUASION MAP (SEE BELOW):

Use your PERSUASION MAP to create a Letter to the Editor in the LETTER CREATOR

Retype your Letter to the Editor using our classroom format (discussed previously) in MS WORD

Email the letter to me at hscribnercaa@gmail.com in both MS Word (.docx) and Adobe (.pdf) format.

Good Luck,

-Mr. S