Mass Media Class Page
I. Basic Journalism
Assignments
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Sept. 15
Sept. 15
Sept. 18-19
Sept. 20-21
Sept. 25
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Oct. 1-5
Oct. 9
Oct. 10
Oct 16
Oct. 22
Oct. 23
Oct. 23
Nov. 7
Nov. 20
Using the book Exploring Journalism and the Media, do these two tasks:
Answer questions 1-4 on page 9 after reading pages 4-8
In your team, make a timeline of the events from your reading.
Take a picture of the timeline and publish it onto a blog page called Newspaper Project.
Take notes on Journalistic Writing in class and then do these for practice:
- After reading The Milford Mirror:
- Locate four straight news stories
- On a piece of paper, write down the headline and byline for each story
- Record the 5 W's and H in each story.
- Submit for credit by the end of class.
- After reading The New York Times:
- Locate four straight news stories
- On a piece of paper, write down the headline and byline for each story
- Record the 5 W's and H in each story.
- Submit for credit by the end of class.
Using the handout called "Featuring Features", work with a team and:
- find all ten types of features from magazines in the library.
- Record the name of the magazine with the date.
- The headline and byline of the story
- Identify what kind of feature it is.
- Explain what makes the article that type of feature.
- Look over this handout on improving word choice.
- In the text, read pages 288-312 and do all of the questions on page 313.
- Read this story about the dynamics of a high school cafeteria.
- Then, go to the cafeteria and ask kids to talk about the subject in the article and conduct interviews.
- Research the topic in the library.
- Write a story that features the Foran HS cafeteria. Use quotes from many people you interviewed and use facts and cited quotes from your library research.
- Use the proper format for feature writing.
- Write a feature story in Google Docs and share it with Mr. Turtola and other members of your team.
- Look at websites like this one to get some ideas for a story.
- Using the feature story you wrote in Google Docs, be sure to share your document with your teammates and Mr. Turtola
- Choose two teammates to edit your story using the exercise called "I Heard, I Wondered, I Noticed".
Begin work on Photo Assignment One
Begin work on Photo Assignment Two
In the book Exploring Journalism, read chapter 10, pages 262-275 and then anwser questions 1-17 on page 283
In the media center, do the Layout and Design worksheets for two newspapers.
Design and layout your newspaper. First create interesting headlines. Use these two websites for assistance:
Begin layout and design of your newspaper. Here is a sample of what it should look like.
Newspaper Project is due today.
Save Publisher file as group#page#, (# being your particular assigned group and page), into the art projects folder on the Foran server.