Day 8: Briefs due

1. Briefs due! Is yours uploaded to mavoice.org? Is there a complementary graphic?

2. Team Check-ins

• How is your article going?
• Where does your next draft go?(1st or 2nd draft = google doc to themavoice@gmail.com; 3rd draft = upload with graphic to mavoice.org)
• What voices are missing from your article?
• What interviews are needed?

3. Practice Writing

Given the facts of the story, write your lead. Once you have written your lead, please post it to socrative.com. Go to room #64674. Once everyone has posted a lead, we will vote and discuss.

Day 7: Drafts & Briefs and Bios, oh my!

1. Team check-ins

A Team: Article 1 due

B Team: Article 1, draft 2 due

C Team: Article 1, draft 1 due

2. Briefs check-in

Do you know what you're doing?

Have you started working on it?

Where do you need help?

3. The Staff Bio
You've been waiting for this moment all of your life, and surely since you started this class. It's time to write about yourself, your accomplishments, and your awesomeness. Make yourself shine. Let your story be told. Now is the time to let other know what you think as you write a little bio about yourself (to be posted on The Voice website). A few reminders: this is public, this is part of the newspaper, this sets the tone for much of what we do. Along with a bio, one of the editors will be taking your photo!! Make sure you look good.

I might suggest you start by reading 3 staff bios from professional publications. Then read a few from our website. Then start to write your own. Once you've written your masterpiece, you will upload it to mavoice.org. It goes under STAFF BIOS. Don't put it in the story section as we'll never find it, it'll never get posted, and then you'll be sad. Real sad.

Day 5: Drafts & Briefs

What's Due — Meet in teams
A Team: Article 1 Draft 1 Due
B Team: Article 1 Draft 1 Due
C Team: Article 1 Brainstorm

What to do
1. How to log-in and upload to the newspaper site (mavoice.org)
2. Hot links!! 3 is the magic minimum
3. Review the briefs
4. More practice news writing

Day 4: Article ideas and fun (as always)

A little talk about what's in the news: Around the Horn

1. Review article ideas & assign stories.

Team A (Lena): Jake, Jesse, Michael, Kai

• First draft: Wed 1/23
• Final draft: Tu 1/29

Team B (Julia): Maya, Stephen, Rebecca, Chiara

• First draft: Wed 1/23
• Second draft: Tu 1/29
• Final draft: Mo 2/4

Team C (Morgan): Henry, Dylan, Dorothy, Taylor

• First draft: Mo 1/29
• Second draft: Mo 2/4
• Final draft: Tu 2/12

2. What's this thing about Briefs? Review briefs, expectations, and when they're due. Find calendar person and scoreboard person.

3. How do we share articles: themavoice@gmail.com & google docs. Expectations around deadlines and turnaround.

4. Brainstorm interview list and required sources.

Article ideas

Here's what we came up with in class. No repeats, please. Remember to come up with article ideas for the different sections.

 

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Day 3: More writing and fun!!

1. What are these pesky rubrics?
2. Break up into teams with editors to review homework.

A —Lena: Jake, Jesse, Michael, Kai, Chiara
B —Julia: Jonathan, Maya, Stephen, Rebecca
C —Morgan: Henry, Dylan, Dorothy, Taylor

Annie: you choose!

3. Brainstorm article ideas
4. Get article assignments

Day 2: you love the Inverted Pyramid!

1. Editors: refine and finish new briefs list.
2. Review of writing basics (pattern: lead, DQ, trans, DQ, trans, …)
3. Highlight different parts of homework article: Lead, transition (facts), DQ
4. Practice writing in pairs. Who doesn't love working with a partner?!

Using the following information, write a straight news story. Be sure to following the IP. And sure, you can review that snazzy powerpoint we looked at in class. Do it! You know you want to.

Who: Maxine Jones

What: Won the Powerball

When: Last night

Where: She lives in Ross, California with her husband, James, and six children.

Why: She bought the winning ticket moments before the numbers were announced

Extra: The powerball was worth $400 million. The Jones family is known across Marin for its philanthropic doings. Last year the family donated more than $200 million to local charities and schools.

Quotes: “It’s amazing. Our family has been so fortunate, and for this to happen to us, I feel especially lucky.” – Maxine Jones

“You have to wonder why such a fortunate family would purchase lotto tickets.” — Local gas station attendant who sold the winning ticket, George Monroe.

“This couldn’t have happened to a better family. Everyone knows how giving and generous the Jones family is. This money will be shared with the entire community.” — Marin County Mayor, Susan DeMill.

Day 1: Second semester BEGINS!

1. What we do in this class
2. How we do it
1. Editors: Lena, Julia, Morgan & Annie
2. Review of course expectations: communication, interviews, graphics
3. Timeline of article due dates & briefs: first class of week article draft (5 in total this semester); second class of week brief (15 in total this semester)
4. Writing basics