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.

Day 11: I skipped a day

1. Check-in with groups
2. Briefs due!

A Team: Article Ideas
B Team: Final due Friday (upload to website)
C Team: second draft due (google)

The challenge: 60 minute story. Interview, write, publish a story before the end of class!

Day 9: Check-in & practice reporting

1. Check-in with team leaders. Questions? Comments? Concerns? Graphics?

A Team: Final due
B Team: work on draft
C Team: work on draft

2. Practice news reporting: Follow the directions and get writing. Work alone. When you are done, please print out your news story and hand it in.

Day 8: More of the same

Briefs Due! Are they in?

Team check-ins
A Team: drafting ... how's it coming along?
B Team: Second draft to google. Is it there?
C Team: First draft to google. Is it there?

Class discussion
Big stories to cover this year?

Staff photos!

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