Teacher makes a lesson out of a 1929 newspaper.
St. Thomas the Apostle School fifth-graders Colin Salandy, Taylor Cardew and Laura Conigliari look through a 1929 Newark Ledger newspaper. BLOOMFIELD -- When one of his students brought in a newspaper from 1929 that he found while helping his grandfather clean out his basement, St. Thomas the Apostle School fifth-grade teacher Michael Petrillo seized the opportunity to use it as a history lesson.
The newspaper was a Newark-Ledger from Dec. 3, 1929. The students were able to look through the newspaper and compare advertisements, news articles and political cartoons from then and now.
According to Petrillo, "Anyone can read from a text book over and over again, but giving the students something to hold, read, and see from a certain era, that is mind blowing to anyone let alone a fifth-grader."
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