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Discover New York In-Class Group Activity
February 3, 2016
Imagine you and the members of your group are news reports and witnesses to be interviewed
Using information from any of the four sections in Chapter 1 of the text, please pick any one event and compose a brief mock news report describing the details of what happened
Mock News Story
Compose a brief news story of the arrival of Henry Hudson and the reaction of the Native Americans to Hudson
Section 1: Hilly Island
Section 2: Stone, Water, Ice Compose a brief news story describing the
great Laurentide glacier and how it carved out the island of Manhattan and Long Island
Compose a new story describing how the Lenape, Iroquois or the Delaware Native Americans lived. How did they survive? What type of dwelling did they live in?
Section 3: Manahatta
Compose a brief new story on the arrival the first people to populate the Western Hemisphere, the people who crossed the Bering Land Bridge some 25,000 years ago or the arrival of the Italian explorer Verrazano and the narrows that now bears his name here in New York City
Section 4: Explorers Arrive
Be a Reporter!
Interview Witnesses!
Ask questions! Describe what you saw, heard, experienced!