Day 7: Article check-ins, interview recaps, and more!

1. Review of interviews. How do you know what's good information versus useless information? What can we learn from each other?
2. Class discussion: Checking in about articles and what interviews you need to get? Who are the experts? What groups need a voice?
3. Peer profiles (see handout). Interview and write. This is an in-class activity, so no need to complete today. Goal is to complete by Friday Sept 18. You will need to submit a graphic or photo with this piece.

Partners:
Emma/Jon
Dylan/Celine
Lije/Astra

Day 6: News Briefs & Interviewing

1. Review of News Brief. Working in partners, share what's good and needs work. Review as class. What makes a news brief different than a fully fleshed out article?
2. Defining News Briefs for each idea. What are readers looking for? What's the length and format? Everyone needs a graphic or video.
3. Interviewing Basics
4. Worksheet

Day 5: Article ideas and assigning

1. Discussion of top article ideas. Generation of even more!
2. Assigning of articles. Fleshing out ideas and angles. These articles will go live Sept 29.
3. Interviewing Basics
4. Intro News Briefs as time permits

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?