St. Thomas the Apostle School student look back at history for social studies assignment.
St. Thomas the Apostle School fifth-grader Marissa Munoz of Bloomfield with the newspaper her group made for a social studies assignment. BLOOMFIELD -- Recently, the fifth-grade students at St. Thomas the Apostle School became news reporters, but with a twist. Instead of reporting on current events, they took a look back more than 230 years to cover news from the American Revolution.
Teacher Thomas Petrillo's students worked in groups to research historic battles and write about them to create newspapers for a social studies project.
The students reported on events such as the battles of Yorktown and Bunker Hill. They also created political cartoons that depicted events from the American Revolution to include in their newspapers.
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