Name:
Think like a Muckraker
Directions: You have just been hired as a journalist of TIME magazine in 1907.
Your job is to find bad things going on in the country. Below is a picture you
found. Your job is to analyze the picture and then write a news article about it!
Part I: Analyze the Photo
What is the problem in this picture?
Write clues here:
How can we fix this?
Part II: Time to Write!
Include the following:
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Introduction to your readers
Describe the picture
What are the problems?
What is your solution?
Conclusion for the readers – encourage them to get involved to stop this
issue.