Day 23: Articles due, new articles & more

1. What's Due:
A Team: Article 4, Draft 1
B Team: Article 3 Final
C Team: Article 3, Draft 2

Please check in with your editors. Is everything shared in the right way? Uploaded? With graphics? Rubrics? Those pesky rubrics.

2. New Articles for B Team (please come up with three of each of the following)

• Trend
• Change
• Problem
• Interesting person

3. A little discussion
What makes a good question? Let's talk about this as we need some practice. What question did Chiarella ask Liam Neeson?

Day 21: Articles and FA and more

1. What's due:
A: Article due (is everything uploaded and reading to go?)
B: Draft 2 due (are graphics lined up? interviews coming along?)
C: Draft 1 due (where is the article headed?)

2. Article ideas: What is the A team going to write about next? Group brainstorm! We need a little pizzazz to our pieces. Some are falling a bit flat. Not good.

3. Back to the FA.

Tinker v Des Moines

Article from local paper

4. Piktochart changes ... you can create charts at home using this website. Please don't abuse this service or our account.

log-in: themavoice@gmail.com
password: ilovetomakegraphics

Day 22: Briefs and some reading

1. Briefs due: Did you do it?

2. Team check-ins: A Team with Lena, B Team with Julia, C Team with Morgan. How are articles moving forward? Graphics?

3. You all must read the Liam Neeson piece, and then pick either Carmelo or Tyler for your second piece. Post responses to the questions in the comment section.

Liam Neeson: What new information did you learn about Liam Neeson? How would you describe the writer's style in this piece? How can The Voice employ this style? When would it be most effective? Ineffective?

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Carmelo Anthony: What stands out in this profile piece? All articles (even straight profiles) must have a conflict, a so what. What is it in this piece?

OR

Tyler Phinney: What stands out in this profile? What's the conflict?

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Day 20: FA presentations, Headline Game & more

1. Nothing is due!

2. Let's check in about articles and graphics and more.

3. Finish up FA presentations and then let's talk about an article.

4. Let's play a game! Yes, a game. So fun you're going to laugh your head off. Maybe your face, too.

Day 19: Briefs due!

1. Briefs due

2. Team check-ins: Plan ahead for the long weekend. Use your time wisely. Does everyone have a graphic in the works?

3. First Amendment Cases: how do these cases influence our work on The Voice? Which law do you think is the most important (technically, they are all important)? 
BOE v Barnette (movie below)
Bethel v Frasier (movie below)
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Morse v Frederick
Leonard Law
Tinker v Des Moines
Owasso v Falvo
Draudt v Wooster & Dean & Utica

Day 18 & FA presentations

1. Articles due!
A Team: Article 3, Draft 2 due
B Team: Article 3, Draft 1 due
C Team: Article due! Decide on next article.

2. General check-ins
Who need what? Graphics? Interviews? HELP!!!!???

3. Use the remainder of class time to work on FA presentations; I'd love a sharable link at the end of class. When you're done with your presentation, please fill out this form.

4. Briefs due next class.

Day 17: Briefs and FA presentations

1. Briefs due!

2. Group check-ins

3. Work on FA presentations

Day 16: Articles due & FA case law

1. Articles due
A team: First draft (google docs)
B team: Final draft (to mavoice.org)
C team: Second draft (google docs)

2. Team check-ins.
How are things going? Graphics? Interviews? Next article to write?

3. What's your brief for Thursday?
Any questions? Everyone ready to go?

4. First Amendment presentations

Groups:
1. Chiara, Dorothy, Stephen: BOE v Barnette, Bethel v Frasier
2. Kai, Becca, Michael: Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier, Morse v Frederick
3. Taylor, Dylan, Maya: Leonard Law, Tinker v Des Moines, Owasso v Falvo
4. Jesse, Jake, Henry: Draudt v Wooster, Dean v Utica

Each group will create a google presentation or prezi (something I can link to on the class blog) of the student case law assigned. Your presentation should include the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How (think background, problem, constitutional conflict, the suit, the decision, etc). Make it clear how this case relates to scholastic journalism as a whole and how it (if it does) specifically affects The MA Voice.

You must have a bibliography. You CANNOT use wikipedia as a source. Instead, try www.oyez.org, or www.splc.org. These are just two solid sources, but they'll get you headed in the right direction.

This presentation is to be worked on IN CLASS ONLY! Max is 20 slides. Make these presentations amazing, awe-inspiring, so thrilling that people in other classes will want to learn about student press case law! Think photos and graphics and interactive fun. Of course, every single solitary source must be cited. All of it.

You will have three class periods to work on this. I will "collect" the presentations at the end of class next Monday (March 11). We will review them on Wednesday March 13.