Jlsm HW archive

2019 Final Project

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Issue 5

Monday, 1-7

Discuss staff positions. Assign new roles.

Discuss more graphics and photos and less text. 14 pages?

Discuss running cell phone addiction essay in January and making that the main package.

Plan stories for January issue. See Jan. 2018, Jan. 2017, and Jan. 2016 for ideas. See Trojournal online for other ideas.

A few thoughts:

Bus driver shortage (bus repair, average age of SES bus driver, why do they continue, etc.)

Essays that could anchor a main package:

Cell phone addiction with Rebekah Thompson's i-search as the anchor story.

Disabilities with RL Winship's disabilities essay as the anchor story (Others with disabilities?)

Plan deadlines. We should probably distribute on Jan. 31.

Revisit contest discussion. (Feb. 25 would be our only option if Mr. M. goes.)

Regroup on style lessons.

Wednesday, Jan. 9

Revisit contest discussion. (Feb. 25 would be our only option if Mr. M. goes.)

Jan. 15 is the last date to enter. That's a Tuesday.

Consider other stories:

Caselman Coach of the Year

Rudy is in.

See building update article in Spotlight.

Invite Leslie to journalism class sometime this month?

Monday, 1-14

Work day: work on story 1

Wednesday, 1-16

Miss Ballantyne's Photoshop presentation

Friday, 1-18 Work on story 2.

Monday, 1-21 NO SCHOOL: TEACHER INSERVICE DAY

Wednesday, 1-23

Story 2 due.

Friday, 1-25

Layout day 2. Begin layout

Monday, 1-28

Finish layout except page 1 (Globetrotter shot with students?). Proofread and correct.

Wednesday, Jan. 30 Finish headlines, captions, and corrections.

Thursday, Jan. 31 January Trojournal out.

Friday, Feb. 1

Discuss layout precision. Spell "receive" and "Gwynn" and "junior." Plan next issue. Update shared folder. Put TJ online. Revamp sports box? I don't like the gradient as it is.

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Issue 4

Monday, 12-3

How to use a scanner.

J2: Finish preparing presentations

J1: Work on personal publications.

Work on story 1.

Add story 2 for all.

Check for editorial and sports assignments. (Time out and Kylar's feature?)

HW: Get interview for story 1.

Wednesday, 12-5

Submit story 1.

Becca's Paint/Gimp project.

J1: Work on personal publications.

Friday, 12-7

J2: Finish style presentations. Work on story 2. Choose photos for publication.

J1: Work on personal publications.

Monday, 12-10 Thrifting enterprise

Wednesday, 12-12

J1: Work on personal publications.

J2: Finish stories

Friday, 12-14

Revise all stories. Place stories on pages.

Monday, 12-17

Finish layout and headlines and captions.

Wednesday, 12-19

Proofread and correct.

Thursday, 12-20

Fold. Distribute papers at lunch

J1 personal pubs due.

Friday, 12-21 1/2 day Coast - if we have any time in class.

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Monday, 11-26 Snow day.

Wednesday, 11-28

Discuss story ideas. Start with these Christmas-related ideas.

Friday, 11-30 Finalize story list. Work on stories and personal publications.

Get TJ online. Get next template ready (including sports box), story about track bids over budget and what happens next?, .

Needs: lead editorial, features, clearer plan for who writes thrifting stories, contacts at Goodwill and Salvation Army stores and what our focus will be, graphics for thrifting stories, photos (photog for tonight?)

Issue 3

Monday, 11-12 Story 2 and all photos and art due. Layout: Choose and use p. 1 photo. Lay out p. 2. Add "Around the Halls." Lay out musical photo spread and caption. Place all completed stories. Complete sports boxes, both the score box and the pre-season boxes.

Wednesday, 11-14 Field trip to Ashby House

Thursday, 11-16 Write Ashby House material.

Friday, 11-16 Layout. Place and verify Ashby House material. Place sports' practice photos.

Monday, 11-19 Finish remainder of layout. Proofread and correct mistakes. Give the most attention to headlines and captions.

Tuesday, 11-20 Distribute Trojournal Block 8 (Who will be able to get TJ folded? We have only Kennedy in my Block 6 class on Tuesdays.)

Wednesday, 11-21 - Sunday, 11-25 THANKSGIVING BREAK

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Regroup on style lessons. Schedule Becca, Taygan and Kennedy's lessons.

Brainstorm for ideas for story 1. (20 minutes)

1. History of student press cases.

2. Woodward and Bernstein (getting the whole story and verifying it)

Student Press Law Google Slides (Used by permission of Travis Feil, creator of the original version of this presentation.)

Kansas Student Publications Act

SPLC Media Law Presentation

Wednesday, 10-31

Things that must be done today:

1. Determine how to shoot big video camera in mp4 format.

2. Put October TJ online.

3. Get TJ template started. Include masthead on 2 and sports box on 15. Put the Brag Board where it belongs. Make sure all styles work. (You'll continue with more detail later.)

4. Get BBB, GBB, and wrestling sports boxes ready and on layout.

5. File first 2 Trojournals in cabinet. Make a new folder.

6. Get started on fun page.

7. Put story assignments online.

Other tasks:

5. We could use a new Brag Board graphic.

6. Decide whether to use the same graphic for Compliment Corner.

7. Look at previous flags and folio lines. Some might have been better than what we currently use. Want to revive an old one. Consider creating new.

8. Keep moving on personal publications.

9. Write interview Qs for story 1.

Brainstorm for additional ideas for story 2. (10 minutes) Finalize story assignments. Write interview questions for story 1.

Put current TJ online. Download xc pix.

Depth ideas? Continue human trafficking story; make it a depth spread?

Video plans?

Continue with press law. Stopped on slide 99.

Friday, 11-2

Download photos from my camera. (done)

Work on story 1.

Note: "Watergate" is on History tonight through Sunday (8 p.m.).

HW: Story 1 due Monday.

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Monday, 11-5 Story 1 deadline.

All: Prep interview questions for story #2.

Issue 2

Monday, 10-8

J1: Take Kylee's style quiz 1 (Abbreviations) Then study style (abbreviations) with Gwynn. Prep questions for story 2 and work on personal pub when you are done.

J2:

Prep your lessons. Refer to this info for the rest of the month. Save your lessons. We may not get you scheduled during October. Currently, we are planning style lessons in October.

Gwynn and Kylee: Continue style lessons and quizzes.

Becca:

A: Paint: How I created the October cover in Paint and what I had to do to import it on InDesign. (Give an "easy" assignment that will take about an hour.)

B.The Gimp 1. basic photo editing of brightness, contrast, and color saturation, 2. how to remove a time stamp or other distraction from a photo, 3. creating a cutout background. (Give an "easy" assignment that will take about an hour.)

Kennedy:

A: Photography: turn on camera, use presets such as sports, using the automatic setting and changing the ISO to stop action, controlling depth of field

B. Downloading and arranging photos on the hard drive.

Taygan:

1. Explore InDesign shortcuts. Teach others to use the most important ones.

2. Find short InDesign videos like this inDesign basics video or this more advanced video on using layers. Assign the best of these videos for others to view.

Choose several short projects that would help J1 and J2 students expand their use of InDesign. Consider, for example, these tasks: Create a Magazine callout (Newspaper Pull Quote), apply a decorative drop cap, or wrapping text around images and graphics. There are several ideas at this web site. If you explore, you'll find others also.

See daily job sheet. Prep questions for story 2. Plan a time to conduct your interviews.

Wednesday, 10-10

J1: Take Gwynn's style quiz 2 (Abbreviations). Study style (numbers) with Kylee. Work on personal pub.

J2: Prep your lessons. Work on stories. See daily job sheet.

Friday, 10-12

J1: Take Kylee's style quiz re-take (Abbreviations).

on personal pub.

J2: Prep your lessons. Work on stories. See daily job sheet.

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Monday, 10-15 NO SCHOOL

Wednesday, 10-17 Story 2 due.

J1: Study style (numbers) with Kylee.

Work on Personal Pub.

J2: Prep your lessons. Work on editing. See daily job sheet.

Friday, 10-19

J1: Take Kylee's style quiz (Numbers).

Study style (punctuation) with Gwynn. Work on personal pub.

J2: Prep your lessons. Work on layout. See daily job sheet.

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Monday, 10-22

J1: Take Gwynn's style quiz (punctuation). Study style (titles) with Kylee. Work on personal pub.

J2: Prep your lessons. Work on layout. See daily job sheet.

Both J1 and J2: Finish layout. See assignment sheet.

Wednesday, 10-24

J1 and J2: Finish headlines and captions. See assignment sheet.

J2: Prep your lessons. See daily job sheet.

Take Gwynn's style quiz 6 (Abbreviations). Work on personal pub.

Friday, 10-26

J1 and J2: Fold and distribute Trojournal.

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Monday, 10-1

J2:

See assignment sheet

J1:

*Show me your personal pub plan.

*Work on layout assignment.

*Then work on personal pub.

HW: Interview for story 1.

Wednesday, 10-3

All: Story 1 due in shared folder.

J2: Kylee - Lesson 1 style for J1. Other J2, see daily assignments.

J1: Study style with Kylee. Then work on personal pub.

HW: J1 study for style quiz

Friday, 10-5

All: Story 1 due at end of class. Place stories in the shared folder so both Kylee and I can edit them.

J1: See Kylee's abbreviations PowerPoint.

Continue work on personal pub.

J2: See assignment sheet.

Monday, 9-24

*See the Credit Sheet. Fill it out as we watch a My Three Sons classic, "Deadline." This is one grading method we'll use.

*Review style

-for months and days. Abbreviate all months that have more than five letters. Write out months of five letters or fewer. Ex. Oct. 6. April 6.

- for numerals. Write out zero through nine. Write out any number that begins a sentence.

-For names. On first mention, use title, first name and last name. After that, use LAST name only. Ex.: Principal Dr. Paul Ogle (first mention). On second and following mention, use only "Ogle."

*As a whole group, discuss story ideas.

*J1: Continue Taygan's layout practice.

*J2: Plan issue 2 and start writing questions for stories. Don't forget the following:

- lead editorial

- column idea

- sports assignments (feature of news story idea for each sport and who is in charge) ex. Kylee on football

- Will Brie continue with sports box? Korey on brag board? Etc.

Important stories to cover:

-Mr. Anderson extended absence. (This could be turned in to a depth story. 1. Mr. Anderson's perspective: What happened? How is recovery coming? How long is the anticipated recovery? What are you learning? 2. The sub: What's it like to step in with no passwords or plans? 3. Tresilyn: What did is take to make the show go on in Mr. Anderson's absence? 4. Other students - Q&A interview: What things have you needed to do or are you needing to do to cope with Mr. Anderson's absence. 5. Teachers: Does someone other than you know your passwords? Where to find lesson plans?)

-Musical story and photo - Musical is Nov. 9 and 10.

- Followup on trap shooting.

- Has scholars' competition begun?

-Halloween plan (bats graphics? feature ideas)

-Notice that you'll need a lot of feature ideas.

Get lessons ready for for Wednesday and the following week. Figure out web: how to get 2018-19 to the top of the site.

*Mini lesson for J1: style - Kylee and Gwynn

Wednesday, 9-26

*Make story assignments and story due dates. 2 stories (or one story and one video) per person.

*Plan graphics - especially charts, graphs, and infographics.

*Party time.

Friday, 9-28 Discuss again editorial, columns, depth spread. Add "facts story and graphics ideas for the depth spread (heart monitor art in headline, photo of Mr. Anderson, photo of Tresilyn in melodrama, graphic that represents a stat about heart attacks (example: body shape and heart attacks) Show me questions for story 1 or write story if questions have already been approved. J1 - Work on and show me a theme and a layout plan for all four pages of your personal publication. (Draw it on paper.)

Issue 1

Week 6

Monday, 9-17 See assignment sheet. Finish football story. Revise play story and trap shooting story. Get cartoon for p. 3. Finish layout and proofread. Add headlines and captions.

Wednesday, 9-19 Add corrections to layout. Do page editors' checklists.

Friday, 9-21 Fold. First Trojournal out in seminar or end of block 7. Who can pass out papers?

Week 5

Monday, 9-10 Revise all stories and put them in the Shared story folder. Begin layout.

Problem areas:

*page 1 photo?

*page 3 cartoon?

*vb photo? (Do we have one?) fb? (Is there a good one from Beloit game?) xc?

*sports boxes (Korey has info ready. Do others?) Is the layout ready?

*I don't think we have a Homecoming story.

Mini lesson: Leads

Wednesday, 9-12 Continue layout. Proofread. Add headlines and captions.

J1: Finish and submit Taygan's layout practice. J2: Prep a second lesson for J1. Show me by the end of the block.

Mini lesson: headlines

Friday, 9-14 Continue layout of September issue. See job assignments sheet in left sidebar.

Mini lesson for J1: captions.

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Week 4

Wednesday, 9-5

See Dr. Ogle stories on screen.

*,"

*statement, quote

*lead

*partial quote

*working back to theme of lead

Revise TJ story 1.

J1: Work on Taygan's layout assignment.

J2: Get layout plan ready. Account for all stories and photos. Download xc pix from Thursday and football photos from Friday.

Work on lessons for J1.

Friday, 9-7 Story 2 due.

Week 3

Monday, 8-27

Interview with Dr. Ogle?

Other J2: Get lessons ready. J1: work on personal pubs.

All: Write questions for story 1. Show Mr. M.

Story 1 due Wednesday, Sept. 5.

Wednesday, 8-29

Last week, we discussed the decline of malls in America. How about story?

We also discussed a field trip to the Wichita Eagle and other news outlets in Wichita. The Eagle is also in decline. See this very recent series of Facebook posts. Read and discuss. Consider a double truck on the decline of what we had once believed to be anchors of modern American society. November?

Taygan teaching about layout. J1 layout practice using Taygan's articles and illustrative matter.

HW: Begin story 2. Due Friday, 9-7. No school on 9-3.

Friday, 8-31 Mr. M. gone. Shoot staff photos. Assign sports boxes. Write Dr. Ogle feature in class. Submit on Google Classroom.

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Week 2

Monday, 8-20

Note: Ask Taygan to create personal pub templates for each J1 student before Wednesday and to make sure templates for all issues are working properly.

Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition?

*Begin futures book. (You all may edit this document.) Plug homework items in to futures book. Both J1 and J2 will begin work on this together. Then J2 will continue as J1 moves back to quiz 67.

Make plans for group interview. Read last spring's story together. Write the questions followup questions together. Check Dr. Ogle's schedule.

J1: Continue working in groups on quiz 67. Finish.

J2: Continue working on September futures. Make story assignments - at least one per person. If you have time, see your daily assignment schedule.

HW: Each person add 10 feature, depth, or editorial ideas.

Wednesday, 8-22

Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

J1: Show Mr. M. your Quiz 67 and ask questions.

Flash more first editions - Sep. 18, 2008, Sept.23, 2011 and Sept 23, 2016 - on the screen and discuss.

PLANNING STORY CONTENT

Share ideas for issue 1. Add ideas to the futures book.

Discuss depth ideas and enterprise story ideas.

J2: Continue with September futures book. Attempt to assign a second story per person. Continue with jobs on assignment sheet. When will stories be due?

PERSONAL PUB

J1: Choose a theme for your personal publication before lunch and plan the stories and photos that will be included.

Make the template for your personal publication more specific by drawing boxes for the locations of stories and photos and labeling those boxes.

HW: J1: Either take a photo for the first page of your personal publication or find one and store it on Google Drive so you'll have it Friday. Plan your personal publication and be ready to report your focus (theme) on Friday.

Friday, 8-24

Place your photo on page 1 of your personal publication and add a caption.

Are preparations for Dr. Ogle interview complete?

Tie up loose ends on story assignments, futures book, and personal projects.

Priority:

1. Assignment sheet must show at least 2 items per person for September Trojournal.

2. Futures book for September Trojournal should be complete, and all other months should have at least one idea per category (news, feature, sports feature, depth, editorial, etc.)

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Week 1

Thursday, 8-16

SIGN UP FOR CLASSROOM AND REMIND!!

GETTING ORGANIZED AND CATCHING THE VISION

Mention Salina Journal e-edition (password coming soon, I hope) and the plan to read on desktop machines first 10 minutes of most class periods.

Students introduce themselves.

THEN GATHER OUTSIDE. TAKE PENCIL AND NOTEBOOK.

DISCUSS SIGN-UP BONUS AND PIZZA OR ICE CREAM.

DISCUSS VISION FOR THE TROJOURNAL.

A. KSPA REGIONAL (2-20) AND STATE CONTEST (5-4) - Mention state speech conflict.

B. THE PUBLICATION

Web only? InDesign and print? Both? Ideas to generate interest between publications? Expanded website? "Extras" in hallways? Polls? Reading bonuses?

C. KEEP CONTENT INTERESTING BUT INVOLVE STUDENTS NOT IN CLASS

1.Lots of depth reporting with a main package for each issue.

2. Regularly (in a standard location) publish items from students not in class?

3. Use lots of photos and graphics.

4. Focus on features.

5. Report sports graphically.

How to find Google art that is in the public domain. (Not copyrighted)

HW: Report next time one item that you think will still be newsworthy on Sept. 15.

Friday, 8-17

5 minutes - Read Salina Journal e-edition.

WHAT DOES THE TROJOURNAL LOOK LIKE AND HOW PROFESSIONAL DOES IT LOOK? See Trojournal archives.

D. Discuss 4-page personal projects.

*Start quiz 67. (You will need to create your own copy of this. I have not allowed editing privileges.) You can find the Trojournal archives online here.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION BEYOND THIS POINT

Week 3

Monday, 8-27

Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.

Check assignments to see if all have two stories.

Set story 1 deadline for Sept. 5.

Mr. Ogle in for group interview.

See Dr. Ogle story from last May's issue. Also see Aspen Mc feature in September 2016 issue. Then write a feature about Dr. Ogle from the notes you have taken. Due ___.