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LESSON: THE FURRY NEWS: How to Make
a Newspaper
Lesson Summary
Big
Bear, Rabbit, and other animals work hard to produce a newspaper for
their own neighborhood. They divide up the labor to write, edit, and
print a variety of stories.
Concept: Productivity
Definition: Labor productivity measures how many
goods or services are produced per worker. Greater productivity leads to higher
standards of living.
Comprehension Questions
Identify the economic want of this
neighborhood in the beginning of the story.
A newspaper of their
own.
Describe how Big Bear divided the labor to
produce the newspaper.
Big Bear assigned himself the job of
publisher and gave each animal a job.
Describe the responsibility of each job (human
resource).
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news editors |
decide which
news stories to put in the newspaper, hand out
assignments to the news reporters, edit articles, write
exciting headlines, write editorials |
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news reporters |
make phone
calls, ask questions, take photographs, write
articles |
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features editors |
same as
news editors but focus on anything in the paper other
than news or advertising |
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feature
articles reporters |
write articles
about movies, television, books, etc. |
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production
department workers |
do paste-up,
printing |
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circulation
department workers |
sell and
deliver newspapers |
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advertising
department workers |
sell
advertisements | |
What
capital resources are needed to perform each job?
Answers may
vary: pens, pencils, telephone, camera, computer, typewriter,
printer.
Explain
the advantages of dividing the labor.
It helped to increase
the productivity of the newspaper.
How did
the animals fund the production of the newspaper?
Money was earned
by selling space for advertisements in the newspaper and by
selling the papers.
Explain
how the animals produced both a good and a service for the
neighborhood.
Good - the newspaper was something made that the
community wanted;
Service - the work done by the newspaper workers to
provide a paper for their own community
Other
Concepts: Human
Resources, Capital
Resources, Specialization,
Division of Labor, Interdependence | 
