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1 The Spanish-American War:
To begin, set up your newspaper across two pages of your notebook as shown below.

2 The Spanish-American War:
You will now use your handout of photos to create a mock newspaper summarizing the events. You will be creating the front page of a newspaper using images cut from the handout and making up your own news stories for each photo. *Headline for EACH Picture *Short article (two sentences) describing each Picture *Descriptive and interesting (the funnier the better) *Use Yellow Journalism techniques to sensationalize the stories

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For the next two slides: 1. Pretend you are a journalist witnessing the atrocities in Cuba. 2. Spanish authorities have confiscated your camera and are not allowing you to take photographs Draw what you see instead and make up a short background story for what is going on in each situation.

8 Journalist at a Spanish concentration camp, “graveyard”, in Cuba.

9 Cuban boy in a Spanish concentration camp.

10 What was Yellow Journalism?
The Spanish-American War: Use information in your unit to answer the following questions in your notebook. What was Yellow Journalism? How did Yellow Journalism contribute to the U.S. going to war with Spain?


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