American+Economy+Newspaper+-+FA11


 * 20th Century American Studies**
 * The American Economy**

You are a publishing company that is summarizing the economic events during the 20th Century. It is your job to write articles that capture the essence of the topic your team will be working on.

You must work together as a class to make sure that all of these financial headlines are covered.
 * 1) The Effects of the Great Depression in the 1930’s (Page 513) (2 people)
 * 2) The New Deal (Page 536) (2 people)
 * 3) Preparing the Economy for WWII (Page 595) (2 people)
 * 4) The Postwar Economy (Page 668) (3 people)
 * 5) The Economy of the 1960’s – Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon (Pages scattered) (3 people)
 * 6) The Economy of the 1970’s (Page 848, 852) (3 people)
 * 7) Reaganomics (Page 870, 874, 878) (2 people)
 * 8) Economic Reforms of the 1990’s and 2000’s (Page 895, 908) (2 people)
 * 9) The Housing Market Collapse and the Recession – 2008 to the Present (2 people)

When composing your headlines, you should keep these things in mind:
 * 1) Capture the attention with a short title that conveys the main idea of the story.


 * 1) Use subtitles that bring out some supporting details and/or highlights of the story. This is a formal piece of writing, but each page should complete an “Op-Ed” section. Essentially, the Op-Ed is a section in which the authors provide an opinion on the era.


 * 1) Write the first paragraph to the article. Be sure to answer: Who? What? Where? When? Why?


 * 1) Each group should have at least one article per person. Remember, you’re only summarizing the essential information for your topics. It should cover the political, social, intellectual, and technological categories of the economy.
 * 2) Lay out the paper so it is captivating and appropriate at the same time.


 * 1) Employ gradually decreasing type size as lesser ideas are mentioned.


 * 1) Identify (when appropriate) the place of origin of the story and the date.


 * 1) Make sure that everyone in the group is working – you’re trying to meet the publisher’s deadline!

Make sure you work as a team to produce your series of headlines.

Content – 20 points Attractiveness/Creativity – 5 points Grammar/Punctuation – 5 points //30 points total//