This exciting 5-day lesson created by Eileen Lannan blends English Language Arts, Social Studies, and History as students enter the world of the Civil Rights Movement and learn and practice the skills of journalism. This lesson really breaks down the walls of the classroom as students assume the role of professional writers by constructing their own newspapers. The use of a variety of mentor texts, including primary texts, multimedia, and popular films helps to engage all learners but particularly provides ELLs with repeated exposure to content vocabulary, the types of tier 3 words specific to the topic, and visuals that make all unit-related input more comprehensible for them. Ms Lannan also utilizes the 7-Step Vocabulary Process, a Word Wheel, Think Alouds, explicit instruction around Text Features, a Word Wall, Questioning Strategies, Sentence Frames, peer-to-peer support, one-on-one peer to student student support, Partner Reading, Think-Pair-Share, carefully planned cooperative groupings, a R.A.F.T. writing assignment, and Sentence Frames in this great lesson that enables students to make real-world connections to the content knowledge and skills they acquire in the classroom. Check out the great resources/handouts Ms. Lannan includes for your use at the end of her lesson, too!