Discover New York In-Class Group Activity

February 3, 2016

Imagine you and the members of your group are news reports and witnesses to be interviewed

Using information from any of the four sections in Chapter 1 of the text, please pick any one event and compose a brief mock news report describing the details of what happened

Mock News Story

Compose a brief news story of the arrival of Henry Hudson and the reaction of the Native Americans to Hudson

Section 1: Hilly Island

Section 2: Stone, Water, Ice Compose a brief news story describing the

great Laurentide glacier and how it carved out the island of Manhattan and Long Island

Compose a new story describing how the Lenape, Iroquois or the Delaware Native Americans lived. How did they survive? What type of dwelling did they live in?

Section 3: Manahatta

Compose a brief new story on the arrival the first people to populate the Western Hemisphere, the people who crossed the Bering Land Bridge some 25,000 years ago or the arrival of the Italian explorer Verrazano and the narrows that now bears his name here in New York City

Section 4: Explorers Arrive

Be a Reporter!

Interview Witnesses!

Ask questions! Describe what you saw, heard, experienced!