Day 21: check-ins, reminders, and reading

1. Briefs due!
2. Check in with your team captain. How are graphics coming along? Articles? Where do you need help?
3. Registration drive reminder:
1. Thursday: Abbie, Eliza, & Sam
2. Friday: Jordan, Holland & Andrew
4. Election Day reminder:
1. D: Bryn (help from Mary)
   G: Dan (some help from Pam's class)
   Break: Holland, Sam & Claire
   E: Andrew & Jordan
   Lunch: Sara, Abbie & Philip
   F: Alberto? (help from Pam)
5. Some in-class reading: please read the following three articles.
1. News piece: Swing Nation
2. Feature piece: The Honor System
3. Review piece: The $2.5 Car

No rush. I just want you to read. After you've read all three, please add a comment to this post that addresses the following questions:

1. In what way is the lead engaging and accurate?
2. How are these three pieces stylistically different?
3. How would you distinguish between a news piece, a feature piece, and a review? Come up with your own definition for each.
4. What kind of sources are used in each piece? How do the different sources add/detract from the piece?
5. Formulate three questions for each article that you think the writer might have asked when interviewing people.

Day 20: Arts & Crafts Time

WHAT'S DUE

A Team: Second draft
B Team: First draft
C Team: Final draft

Check in about graphics. Are you using the rubrics???

WHAT WE'RE DOING

1. Voter registration schedule:
1. Tue 10.30: Sara, Phillip, Dan & Bryn
2. Thu 11.1: Abbie, Eliza, & Sam
3. Fri 11.2: Jordan, Holland & Andrew
2. Election Day schedule
1. D: Bryn (help from Mary)
   G: Abbie & Dan (some help from Pam's class)
   Break: Holland, Sam & Claire
   E: Andrew, Lena & Jordan
   Lunch: Sara, Abbie & Philip
   F: Alberto (help from Pam)
3. Recap of COD (what was awesome and what we can learn to do better the next time)
4. Let's get the voters excited and let's get the word out about registration and voting.

Voter Registration Form

For registration purposes.

Day 19

Meet in teams
A Team: First draft (google)
B Team: final draft (website)
C Team: Second draft (google)

Class work
1. Review AP
2. COD moderator questions/video work/review of session attendance
3. Sol Food order
4. Work on article

Thursday

D: Holland & Sara & Annie & Morgan & Eliza

E: Philip & Claire & Sara

F:  Lena & Abbie & Eliza

LUNCH WITH LANCE WILLIAMS IN LIB 206 -- Sol Food!!
G: Abbie (mod), Holland (mod), Julia (mod): Dan Annie

Friday
A: Morgan (mod) & Annie (mod): Sam & Abbie
C: Sam & Eliza
B: Bryn & Andrew & Jordan

NO BRIEFS THIS WEEK! All COD articles must be posted the night of the session (earlier if possible).

bold = video
underlined = head writer

Day 18: AP and you!

• Check in with teams: everyone is working on a draft right now! How are graphics coming along?
• Review of COD, Voter Registration & Election Day events
• AP Style intro: Review of MA style sheet and then general AP
• AP style work with a partner
• Review of style work

COD coverage schedule

Each session needs:

1. A reporter working the iPad for video

2. A reporter (or two or three) writing a 350-500 word article (min of three sources). Regardless of number of reporters, there's still only one article filed.

Articles are to be filed the day of the session. Each article needs a complimentary graphic. Start thinking about that now.

Thursday
D: Holland & Sara (& Abbie)
E: Jordan & Philip (& Abbie)
F:  Lena & Abbie

LUNCH WITH LANCE WILLIAMS IN LIB 206 -- Sol Food!!
G: Abbie (mod), Holland (mod), Julia (mod), Lena, Annie, Morgan, Jordan, Eliza, 

Friday
A: Morgan (mod) & Annie (mod); entire class is attending
C: Claire & Sam & Abbie & Eliza
B: Bryn & Andrew

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Voter Registration Drive (10/29-11/2)

You will staff a table at lunch in the café and encourage people to register to vote. If students or staff do not register to vote, they will not be allowed to vote on election day.

Mon 10.29: Lena, Claire & Alberto

Tue 10.30: Sara, Phillip, Dan & Bryn

Thu 11.1: Abbie, Eliza, & Sam

Fri 11.2: Jordan, Holland & Andrew

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Election Day Poll Coverage (Tue 11/6)

You will staff a few tables in the alcove of the café. People will use the iPads/laptops to vote. We do need support from your teachers to make this work, so please get in touch with them to work with your class schedules.

D: Bryn
G: Abbie & Dan
Break: Holland, Sam & Claire
E: Andrew, Lena & Jordan
Lunch: Sara, Abbie & Philip
F: Alberto

Day 17

BRING AP STYLEBOOK TO FRIDAY'S CLASS. WE'LL MEET IN THE ANNEX!!

1. Team Meetings
Briefs due

A Team: Article Ideas — what are you writing for the next deadline?
B Team: Second draft (google) — don't forget hotlinks & fill out the rubric
C Team: First Draft (google) — don't forget hotlinks & fill out the rubric

2. COD: Holland & Abbie — work on session questions. Research panelists' bios.

3. A little news QUIZ ... how much do you know. You must work alone. You can use The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the SF Chronicle, or the LA Times to find the answers.

Send your answers to MARY in an email.

Day 16: editorial discussion and more

1. Team Meetings
A Team: final draft due (website): make sure there are a minimum of three hotlinks in the final article
B Team: Work on article — graphics check-in
C Team: Work on draft — graphics check-in

2. Class discussion
Lena will lead the class in a discussion pertaining to her team's larger article: ADD/ADHD, medication use and abuse, diagnosis, etc.

3. As time permits
COD: what we're in charge of and how we can make it awesome.

Day 15

Brief due
A Team: Second draft due (google)
B Team: first draft (google)
C Team: Who's writing what? Key interviews?

Review of some key points
1. Keep yourself out of the story
2. Don't source your friends, your family, your team mates
3. Find what you think if your best story thus far, use the rubrics from the blog and see how you did.

Day 14: Check-ins, COD, and more

A Team: check-in about article
B Team: check-in about article
C Team: final draft due!

Class time
1. COD schedule: The Voice needs three people at every session. Each session will be videoed, and a short brief will be written. The brief must contain a minimum of four sources. We need to divide up coverage and write a letter to teachers about missing classes.

Thu
D: Holland & Abbie
E: Jordan & Philip (photo)
F: & Lena (Jenny)
G: Abbie

Fri
A: class is attending
C: Sara & Claire (Bob) & Sam & Abbie (Nancy) & Eliza
B: Bryn (Chris), Andrew

2. The logistics of voter registration and election day: We are going to register voters the week of 10/29 - 11/2 for the MA Presidential election . This will require staffing a table in the café during lunch. We will need three people at each lunch working the voter registration table:

Mon 10/29: Lena & Claire & Alberto
Tue 10/30: Sara & Philip & Dan & Bryn
Thu 11/1: Abbie & Eliza & Sam
Fri 11/2: Jordan & Holland & Andrew

3. On election day (Tuesday November 6) we will have the polls open from 7:45AM - 3PM. All adults and students who registered are eligible to vote. We just need to create a schedule for keeping the polls open.

D: Bryn
G: Abbie & Dan
Break: Holland & Sam & Claire
E: Andrew & Lena & Jordan
Lunch: Sara & Abbie & Philip
F: Alberto

For both registration and election day, we will need to create google forms. The forms will ensue anonymous voting and quick and easy results. For registration, the form needs to be as similar to the real voter registration document as possible. For election day, we want the form to look like the real ballot and include

4. Working on our session:

• Decoding the Spin:  Looking for Truth in Election Coverage: Mary’s Journalism students will join Eugene Kiely, Deputy Director of Factcheck.org, SF Chronicle political blogger Joe Garofoli, Bay Area News Group political writer Josh Richman, and former journalism professor and current UC-Berkeley Librarian Tom Leonard for a conversation about how to find the truth amidst the avalanche of contradictory claims in the coverage of American elections.

Day 13

1. Team check-ins
2. Graphic needs?
3. Discussion about Jordan's graphic
4. Complete previous in-class work (national/international stories with MA angle)
5. Work on articles

What's due today:
Briefs
A Team: First draft due (google)
B Team: Article Ideas
C Team: work on draft

Day 12: No homework but ...

1. Check-in with team leaders
2. Graphics needs
3. Find 10 national/international stories and localize them to MA. Post the original story as a comment to this blog and your localized story idea, too.