Goal for staff: Make each day your masterpiece. You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better. Only then will you be able to approach being the best you can be.

Goal for editors & advisor: Define success for those under your leadership as total commitment and effort to the team's welfare. Then show it yourself with your own effort and performance. Most of those you lead will do the same. Those who don't should be encouraged to look for a new team. — John Wooden

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Week 1 — Happy New Year!

Two articles related to reading:

1. NYTimes writes about The Future of Reading. While many of the sources are from the middle school level, how do you think this issue manifest itself in high school? Pertaining to writing style, what do you think of the overall structure? Is it a straight news piece or does it lean toward a feature?

2. Wall Street Journal has a great piece on literature and how it's changing to more plot focused pieces. This is a great example of an opinion piece, but many people think this is a straight news piece. It's also raises questions about what people read and why we read what we read. How might this affect newspaper readers?
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Monday, August 24, 2009

Edition 1 Article Ideas

Please post your ideas for the first edition of the year. Be sure to read the other ideas BEFORE you post your own. You can elaborate on another person's post (with a citation, of course). Be specific and try to format each idea as such:

Article Idea:
Must interviews:
Why will people want to read this:

Here we go!
mc
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