What is News?

Welcome back, Creative Writing sophomores!

Goals for Understanding:

• What are sources of news?
• What is news?
• What are the elements of news?
• What is the language of the journalism profession?
• Why is it important to use newspaper terminology?
• What factors determine how articles are placed on the front page?
• Does the placement of a story affect the reader's response to it?
• In addition to news stories, what other information is included on the front page?
• What is the significance of placement?

Activites

Day 1: Definitions and Sources of News

• Motivational Activity: Each day people throughout the world depend on newspapers, television, radio news, and personal interactions to keep up with global, national, regional, and local events. Consider your own news sources. How do you learn about what is happening? Complete Handout 1: My Personal News Sources.

• Partner share of results followed by class discussion about various sources of news used by students. Additional questions to consider:
  • Which of the sources is most accurate/reliable?
  • Which is most entertaining?
  • Why are people interested in getting news?
• Pose question: What is news? Create a definition. Brainstorm and chart ideas on board.
• Read and discuss
  
  • Handout 2: What is News? Reinforce/expandstudent suggested definitions. Continue discussion with News Elements: Concepts that Make News News (adapted from ForJournalism Teachers Only)
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• For homework, complete Handout 3: What is News?Assignment adapted from Making News: An Introduction to Journalism by John R. Harrold and Lois A. Stanciak

TV broadcast scripts

Check out these websites for scripts:

http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/showscripts/6fri.shtml#1

CNN:


http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/studentnews/05/23/transcript.tue/index.html

Podcasting

1. Go to Gamzon-Workshop.
2   Check out This American Life        .http://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast
3.View video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4IBSseAJlk&feature=related
4.  Find other podcasts online that you find interesting.
5. Look at the GarageBand instructions for podcasts. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RimJ6BfQaTE&feature=related
6.  Post a comment with 6 recommended podcasts.




Work with your group to brainstorm podcast ideas and present a proposal to Ms. Gamzon by the end of the period.
Proposal should be written out, specifying:

a. Group Members:
b. Podcast Idea:
c. Sources for podcast--interviews, research, other podcasts, etc.
d. Responsibilities: What will the members of your group be doing:

Mark Shulman visit tomorrow/ Magazine Design Tips

Trailer about the book:
http://media.barnesandnoble.com/?fr_story=75ff597663d8bc1aafa096d7b1769535e6c5e3a7&rf=sitemap


http://us.macmillan.com/scrawl 


Interview with Mark Shulman:


http://www.viewsline.com/Interview.jsp?id=33986&/__Mark_Shulman_,_Author_of_Scrawl/__Interview_with.html

MAGAZINE DESIGN TIPS:
http://www.magazinepublisher.com/designtips.html

Magazine Projects--Instructions

PROCEDURES FOR CREATING A MAGAZINE:

• Must have front and back cover. Cover page must have title of magazine, author, and names of featured articles.
• Cover and back pages must be illustrated.
• Must have table of contents page with article and page number.
• Must include at least four (4) articles. Each article must include topic and authors byline and should be a minimum of two (2) paragraphs long.
• Articles can be informative (tell about something), narrative (tell a story) persuasive (present an idea or argument about something you feel strongly about and may include evidence to support your argument), or descriptive (describing something).
• Magazine can include poetry, interviews, short story, music or movie reviews, advice columns, puzzles, riddles, jokes (no inappropriate jokes such as "your momma" jokes or dirty jokes), recipes, fashion, etc.
• Magazines must also include advertisement. These advertisements must be original. (In other words, you must create the ad's yourself). You may write only two full-page ads. Your ads may be included on a feature page.
• Magazine must be a minimum of 10 pages and no more than 15 pages in length, including advertisements, School year page, and front and back pages.
• Each page must be numbered

Scoring Rubric for MAGAZINE

Must have front and back cover
_____/20 points

Cover has title of magazine, author, and names of featured articles
_____/30 points

Cover and back pages must be illustrated
_____/40 points

Table of contents page with article and page number
_____/30 points

Each article with topic and authors byline
_____/20 points

Each article at least two (2) paragraphs long
_____/20 points

Has two original advertisements
_____/40 (20 points each)


TOTAL = ______/200 points
Grade = _______

Marking Period 5 Magazine Project

Go to website for Media Literacy:

http://www.frankwbaker.com/magazines.htm

How to Start a Magazine:
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4854187_starting-a-magazine.html

Photojournalism project

SEE HANDOUTS

ASSIGNMENT:

For this assignment, the students are to create a Prezi presentation for the class that introduces the biography and background of the photographer, shows and describes 6 photographs the photographer has taken and explains the significance of the photos and their impact on the viewer. Students will present their finished projects to the class during the week of 3/14-3/18.

In addition, the students are to put together 6 pictures of their own for a personal photographic journalism essay.
The photos should make a statement in themselves about a topic of interest to the individual student and will also be presented to the class.