This unit will be divided into 10 significant tasks as its length spans several months. These tasks will correspond to the different aspects of production of their newspaper: an understanding of what it takes to build a front page, designing an advertisement, conceptualizing a cartoon, understanding the stock market, etc. It will also include an historic overview of the time period 1945-1965. At the outset, each student will be issued a floppy disk, a folder, and a journal for note-taking, thoughts, ideas, and reflections. On the disk students will save all materials developed as they complete each significant task. The journal will be used to document ideas by hand in class. The final assessment will be a layout of an actual newspaper using all stories, information, and designs as it relates to their assigned year.