HOW DID YOU GET YOUR NEWS TODAY?

11/11

TEACHER’S PAGE

Audience

High school students

Grade 11

Those students who believe they receive news from Msn’s homepage, twitter, Facebook, and

tmz.com

Environment

In a social studies class(Sociology)

10-20 students

Students are able to interact with the teacher and PowerPoint. Students will be required to

complete this PowerPoint on their own.

Objectives

Given the history of several news sources students will be able to identify and be acquainted

with facts about the sources proficiently with 100% accuracy.

HOW DID YOU GET YOUR NEWS TODAY?

Click Bird to move on!

WHICH WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN?

TODAY’S NEWSYESTERDAY’S NEWS

TODAY’S NEWS!

ORIENTATION

As students of the 21st century, many of you have

never opened a news paper to look past the sports

section. Today, you all will learn about several

different source of news from today and the past.

Take notes because there will be a brief quiz at the

end.

DIRECTIONS

Read through the information on each source.

Make sure you take note of the information you

believe is important.

There will be a short quiz at the end!

Good luck!

CLICK ON A DIFFERENT NEWS SOURCE FOR INFO!

YOUR GRANDMA’S NEWS PAPER

According to thepaperboy.com,

the top ten newspaper in the

U.S. are

Wall Street Journal,

USA Today,

New York Times,

Los Angeles Times

Washington Post

DID YOU KNOW?

New York Daily News

Chicago Tribune

News Day

Houston Chronicle

Dallas Morning News

However, we’ll just talk about 2 today, the Wall

Street Journal and my favorite and your favorite too

for extra credit, the Chicago Tribune.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

The Wall Street Journal was first published in

1889. Although, the Wall Street Journal prints

all kinds of news today, when the paper first

debuted it only featured news only about the

stock market.

Not m

uch o

f a change

right?

In the 1940s, the Wall Street Journal became a

regular newspaper. Of course, as a result of the

internet becoming popular, the Wall Street Journal

went viral.

THE CHICAGO

TRIBUNE

FINALLY!

The best newspaper in the world was first founded in

1842, making it’s debut on June 10. According to

historymania.com “Before and during the American

Civil War, Joseph Medill pushed an abolitionist

agenda and supported Abraham Lincoln, whom he

persuaded to run for the presidency in 1860. The

paper remained a strong force in Republican politics

for years afterwards.”

THE GOOD OLE’ INTERNET

In high school, I despised the newspaper and the

internet was my bff. Due to the matter that Msn.com

was my family computer’s home internet page, I felt

that this website was my source of news along with

Facebook and twitter. Also, for extra credit add me

on Facebook and follow me on twitter.

MSNBC

Msnbc was founded in 1996. Msnbc.com in a website

ran by NBC universal and Microsoft. This website

debuted in 1996. (Pretty recent right!) Many of you

may believe that MSNBC and msnbc.com are one in

the same but they both are ran differently

maintaining different agendas.

Let us digress from our educational lesson for a

more “inferior” piece of info…

Many of you are familiar with the TV show TMZ on

TV and maybe even the website. Let’s discuss the

website shall we? TMZ can mostly be described as a

tabloid website reporting the celebrity news

mainstream American craves. Since debuting in

2005, this less than news worthy website has earned

itself it’s own TV show, TMZ ON TV.

THE “TRUSTY” MAGAZINE

I hope the title didn’t make you think we would be

learning about your favorite magazine’s such as

Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, or Sports Illustrated. We

are going to take a look at a few trustworthy

magazines.

What do you think is one of the most popular

magazines in the U.S? (Wait for responses) If you

said YM, that definitely wasn’t close to the answer!

Although, you guys might beg to differ, Time

magazine is one of the most popular magazines in

the world.

According to timeinc.com “Seventy stockholders

invested $85,675 to launch TIME, and the company

became incorporated on November 28, 1922.” Today

Time owns 130 magazines globally. Little known fact,

according to timeinc.com in 1972, Time Inc.

launched HBO.

The next magazine we are going to look at many of

you might believe only your grandparents read and

skip over it while browsing through your Sunday

paper.

Parade magazine made it’s first debut in 1941 as

“The Weekly Picture Newspaper.” According to

parade.com “Today, PARADE is carried by more than

530 of the nation’s finest newspapers and reaches

more than 74 millions Americans every week.”

Congratulations, You made it past the

“Today’s News” section!!!!

YESTERDAY’S NEWS

In this section we will learn about how your parent’s

literally received their news and news that might not

exist anymore.

Do You know what the Oldest American

Newspaper is?

The oldest American newspaper is the Maryland

Gazette. The Maryland Gazette was first published in

September 1727. Unfortunately, the Maryland

Gazette was no longer published after November

1734.

NOW HERE’S THE FUN PART!

Select the right answers to the following questions. After answering each question, document

your results. If you answer a question wrong, please document each attempt at getting the right

answer. Please be honest, this material will show up the test!

W H I C H O N E O F T H E S E N E W S S O U R C E S A R E C O N S I D E R E D A T A B L O I D ?

a)The Times

b)The Maryland Gazette

c)TMZ

GREAT WORK!TMZ online is an online news source that solely delivers news on celebrity controversy.

INCORRECT

Sorry Try Again

Tabloid probably did not exist in the seventeen

hundreds.

Click here to go back.

INCORRECT

Sorry, the Times is a world renowned magazine.

Click here to go back.

WHAT YEAR WAS THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE FOUNDED?

a) 1842

b) 1727

c) 1889

CORRECT!

Great work!

The Chicago Tribune was founded in 1842!

Click Here to move on.

INCORRECT

Sorry! The Maryland Gazette was founded in 1727.

Click here to go back.

INCORRECT

Sorry, the Wall Street Journal was founded in 1889.

Click here to go back.

W H E N T H E W A L L S T R E E T J O U R N A L F I R S T D E B U T E D W H A T D I D I T M A I N L Y F E A T U R E ?

a) Pictures only

b) Stocks

c) Ad’s about slavery

INCORRECT

Sorry, when the Chicago Tribune first debuted it

featured stories on the civil war and slavery.

Click here to go back.

INCORRECT

Sorry, when Parade first debuted it was a picture

newspaper.

Click here to go back.

CORRECT!

GREAT WORK!

When the Wall Street Journal first debuted it mostly

featured articles on stocks.

Click here to move on to the next slide.

WHICH ONE OF THESE NEWS SOURCES IS THE MOST RECENT?

a) MSNBC.com

b) The Times

c) The Maryland Gazette

CORRECT!

GREAT WORK!

MSNBC.com was founded in 1996.

Click here to move on.

INCORRECT

Sorry, the Maryland Gazette was founded in 1727.

Click here to go back.

INCORRECT

Sorry, the Times debuted in 1922.

Click here to go back.

Last one, you’re almost there

W H I C H O N E O F T H E S E N E W S S O U R C E S S H I G H L Y S U P P O R T E D F U T U R E P R E S I D E N T A B R A H A M

L I N C O L N

a) The Wall Street Journal

b) Parade

c) Chicago Tribune

INCORRECT

Sorry, Parade magazine did not debut until

1941.

Click here to go back.

INCORRECT

Sorry, The Wall Street Journal was most known for

their stories on stock.

Click here to go back.

CORRECT!

GREAT WORK!

The Chicago Tribune’s editor Joseph Medill pushed

an abolitionist agenda and supported Abraham

Lincoln.

Click here to continue.

YOU MADE IT!

Congrats! You’ve made it through today’s lesson!