Production Activity Assessment
A teacher would first began by pointing out that this is a view of what happened if someone actually witnessed the Watergate Taking place. We know this is not what happened. For the activity to assess what the students have learned a teacher could ask them to create a news article of what happened and add an interview of Forrest Gump in this news article. Tell the students to use prior knowledge of Forrest Gump, the Watergate Scandal, political parties, and whatever else could help them in order to create this news piece. Tell the students that news articles on breaking news are not that long, and theirs should be no more than a page.
EXAMPLE:
Forrest Gump Catches an illegal entrance in the Watergate Hotel!!!!!
Forrest Gump makes a phone call in the middle of the night to the security man of the Watergate hotel. He calls to tell the security to send a maintenance person to the office across his room because he sees that the lights are off and they may be looking for a fuse box because he sees a several flashlights looking around the room. Little did Forrest know, but he was turning in the republican party for breaking into the Democratic Headquarters in order to try to gain an advantage on the up coming elections. We asked Forrest for an interview, and he was very hesitant but he complied. Forrest Gump said, "I had no clue what was going on, I was just trying to help the fellows next door find the fuse box." We then asked Forrest if this was going to impact who he was going to vote for in the upcoming elections, and he responded by saying "I am still unsure of what exactly took place last night and I will not be making any further decisions on my vote until I figure this thing out." No matter if Forrest Gump realizes what he did last night or not, it is all thanks to him now that we know who are president really is in a time of panic. Since this happened less than twelve hours ago, we still are short on information and cannot comment anymore on this topic until further research is done. As soon as more information is found, there will be an immediately article posted in the paper the next morning.
The reason why their article can be so short is because back then they did not have the technology to get information quickly. This means that the breaking news would not have a lot of information in to because they would not have gotten it yet.
EXAMPLE:
Forrest Gump Catches an illegal entrance in the Watergate Hotel!!!!!
Forrest Gump makes a phone call in the middle of the night to the security man of the Watergate hotel. He calls to tell the security to send a maintenance person to the office across his room because he sees that the lights are off and they may be looking for a fuse box because he sees a several flashlights looking around the room. Little did Forrest know, but he was turning in the republican party for breaking into the Democratic Headquarters in order to try to gain an advantage on the up coming elections. We asked Forrest for an interview, and he was very hesitant but he complied. Forrest Gump said, "I had no clue what was going on, I was just trying to help the fellows next door find the fuse box." We then asked Forrest if this was going to impact who he was going to vote for in the upcoming elections, and he responded by saying "I am still unsure of what exactly took place last night and I will not be making any further decisions on my vote until I figure this thing out." No matter if Forrest Gump realizes what he did last night or not, it is all thanks to him now that we know who are president really is in a time of panic. Since this happened less than twelve hours ago, we still are short on information and cannot comment anymore on this topic until further research is done. As soon as more information is found, there will be an immediately article posted in the paper the next morning.
The reason why their article can be so short is because back then they did not have the technology to get information quickly. This means that the breaking news would not have a lot of information in to because they would not have gotten it yet.