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Oral Rubric- factors that will be considered are comprehension, speech, stays on topic, enthusiasm, collaboration, listening. ||
 * Goal || Students will c reate a news broadcast immersed in the streets of Philadelphia in 1793 when the yellow fever epidemic is taking place in the book. Broadcast a specific scene that occurs within the book that really personifies the yellow fever epidemic. Interview a person on the scene, and make sure to draw in your viewers. As a reporter one will need to give the viewers at home a good understanding and feeling for what is going on because you are the one news crew brave enough to be there. ||
 * Role || Different roles will need to be chosen within the group: reporter for ABC News and characters from the book, along with the camera crew and such. All students will contribute to the creation of the scene and the script. ||
 * Audience || The target audience is the viewers at home watching the epidemic from afar and the ABC News Producers. ||
 * Setting || The challenge involves reporting on and recreating a scene from the book. Also to assume the role of a character at the scene and answer the reporters’ questions based on their understanding of the specific scene and character. The best reporter/news crew will become the new news crew for ABC News, so make it interesting! ||
 * Presentation || You will create an iMovie clip of your news teams broadcast. ||
 * Standards || Media Rubric- factors that will be considered are planning, light/sound, camera/images, effects, educational value, music, and credits.

=Introduction= Fever, 1793 is a historical fiction, based on the actual yellow fever epidemic that occured in Philadelphia in 1793. Yellow fever is a viral disease that can quickly cause an epidemic as it did in Fever, 1793. Mattie expereinced a lot of hardships within the novel and it is important to delve into these hardships and extract exactly what was going on within the novel based on your knowledge after reading the book. We are going to extract the expereinces from the novel and make them come alive.

=Task= Imagine if you could go back in time to 1793 when the yellow fever epidemic was occurring in Philadelphia? Well, guess what? ABC News just bought the new time machine that Magnavox has come out with! ABC News needs a new news crew to travel in their time machine and report events from the past. ABC News wants to go back to Philadelphia in 1793 and report on the yellow fever epidemic and they are looking for the next great news team to do this. It is your job as a news crew to get the down and dirty on the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia based on a certain scene from //Fever, 1793// and an interview with one of the characters on the scene. It is a reporters job to draw in the viewers at home and really make them feel like they are on the scene with you and know exactly what is going on, evoke some feelings into your viewers, make them grab the nearest box of Kleenex tissues to wipe their noses! They can't/don't want to be there, so at least make them feel like they are from watching your report. You get the hint, make the scene you are reporting on exciting and interesting (while being true to the text). The best news report will receive a place at ABC News as the new news team reporting events from the past by traveling through their time machine.

=Conclusion= What did you learn about the characters and their situation based on your reading of the text and creating the news broadcast? Did the expereince come alive? Did you learn more about specific characters through impersonating them? Well, hopefully! Although Fever, 1793 is fictional it deals with real events and tragedy. Reporting on these real events allowed for the past to be brought into the present. Reporters weren't able to broadcast over television what was occuring in 1793 so it is important to recreate these events and make them real again through the technology that we have today, like the Magnavox time machine!


 * 1) Groups will be chosen from teacher drawing names out of a hat. There should be four students in each group.
 * 2) The teacher will then auction off chapters to the groups. The choices will be chapters 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, 22-29. Talk with you group as to which chapters you may want to use for your news report.
 * 3) You may watch this video which is a news report on a different book.
 * 4) As a group you will now have time to deliberate on which scene from the selected chapters you will want to create a news report on.
 * 5) Next as a team you will need to fill out a story map to jot down the main ideas of your news report clip. Each group member needs to fill out their own story map.
 * 6) Once the story map is completed it is time to begin writing the script. All group members need to be seen within the movie. Everyone can take turns being the camera man. There needs to be a news reporter and at least two characters from the book involved in the scene and any extra person that may help with the scene such as a customer at the coffeehouse.
 * 7) Once the story map and script are completed they need to be handed in to your teacher quickly to make sure that you are on the right track, once the teacher approves it is time to start filming.
 * 8) The filming process will take place at school but you are encouraged to go anywhere in the school that will fit your scene properly as long as your teacher gives you permission and other classes will not be disturbed. Being outside may work best for your scene or an empty classroom. It is important to find a secluded area so that there is no background noise or distraction.
 * 9) Take as many takes as needed so that there will be plenty to choose from when editing the movie.
 * 10) Upload all of your clips into iMovie to begin the editing process.
 * 11)  Editing needs to be a group effort as well. Make sure to respect all group members’ opinions and ideas in this process.
 * 12)  A title page and credit page need to be provided in the news report along with any music or sounds that are appropriate to the clip.
 * 13) Once your group has completed the final product you will present it to the rest of the class and will be graded on the actual news clip itself and your oral presentation to your peers.