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Students have the option of creating a one-page newsletter, brochure, poster, newspaper article, or a flyer. Each newsletter, brochure, or flyer will reflect the colonial characteristics of the assigned New England, Middle, or Southern colony that is being created. Information contained should address weather conditions, climate, geographic features, local economics, crops, religion, etc. in an attempt to persuade settlers to join the colony.

Students have the option of creating a one-page newsletter, brochure, poster, newspaper article, or a flyer. Each newsletter, brochure, or flyer will reflect the colonial characteristics of the assigned New England, Middle, or Southern colony that is being created. Information contained should address weather conditions, climate, geographic features, local economics, crops, religion, etc. in an attempt to persuade settlers to join the colony.

Students were tasked to write their own Dreamtime story about creation or moral / lesson.

An alpha poem is a free verse poem that tells a story using the letters of the alphabet to begin each line.

Students will apply their understanding of prepositional phrases by creating a poem, using prepositional phrases.

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This rubric is for grading a newspaper found on the streets of Boston just after the Revolutionary War. It contains information about problems with the British and how the colonies reacted as they began to form a nation.