Day 4: Review of writing and more practice

1. Working in groups, what comments were made on your articles? How did your work compare to others? What big style things did you learn? How can you improve your work for the next time?

2. Large group discussion on writing.

3. Working in partners, review the homework. What do you notice? What parts were done well? What parts were not done well.

4. Large group discussion.

5. Write another practice news piece from handout. 40 minutes to execute and print.

Day 3: Article connections to MA, News writing

1. Review homework and connections between world stories and MA.
2. Review of news story structure (handout)
3. Use one homework article and label LQTQ structure
4. Look at rubric
5. Practice new stories // review with editors

Day 2: What is news? What makes news?

1. Continuation of discussion around Prison and Math article. How do facts and opinion manifest themselves differently in the two pieces?

2. What makes news news? A quick video. What elements go into making something news?

3. Short powerpoint. Fill in vocab sheet with slideshow.

4. Use news websites to find examples of each news value term. You can work in partners. Share out as class.

5. What would be some ideas for news stories on campus?

Day 1: We begin. What is news?

1. Name a celebrity.
2. “How do you know about this person?” (What news sources have you used to learn about this person?)
3. “What makes something news?” (What's the news of the day? What's important to you right now? Important on local, state, national, international level?)

Powerpoint!

Complete News of Not News Handout. Discuss

For other pieces, please read them both and determine which one is news and which one is opinion. Underline or highlight facts and opinion statements in both pieces as supporting evidence. Are there facts and opinions highlighted in both? Why or why not?

Rolling Stone & Good reporting

Read this

Then read this

Then read this

And finally this

Now let's talk.

Let's check out some top articles

Best of SNO

Please post a response to the following:
1. Top three articles
2. 5 articles ideas we can localize to MA
3. Graphics, infographics ideas we can steal

Please list links to the articles in your comments.

Day 56.98: Infographics!

Find five infographics that are awesome. Put the link in the comment section of this post. And please include 3-5 lines as to why the infographic is so cool, how it communicates information, and what style piece you can steal from it. 3-5 lines per inforgraphic found.