Newspaper Reflection

Our project consisted on making a newspaper and writing articles regarding to the second Lincoln - Douglas debates, which occurred in Freeport Illinois on August 27, 1858. My group partners were Diana Barlow and Paul Santillan. The project was quite challenging because we had to make the newspaper look as one from 1858. During the project, I learned that the articles of newspaper have an order. They start with a Lede, then Quote, Transition, Quote and Transition.

The organization of my group was great. We organized since the first day of the project. We decided who did what. Diana made an article about the second debate, Paul and me about a current event of that year.

The participation and dedication of each member from the group was great, including mine. I'm proud of myself for have helped the others during the process. I helped Diana with the small articles on the bottom of the newspaper and Paul with the ads. Paul and Diana are amazing partners; Paul did a great job on the layout job and Diana with the headlines and articles.

If there was something I could improve would be the empty space and my article. I would do it about a real current event from that time regarding to a topic talked in the debate, slavery.
By researching more through the internet, I would have found out about a current event from the time.