Beat 3 due Nov. 6

Your third beat is due Friday, Nov. 6 at midnight!

Cemetery Field Trips Bring History to Life for High Schoolers Students can learn about history, culture and architecture on these trips, one educator says.

Cemetery Field Trips Bring History to Life for High Schoolers

Students can learn about history, culture and architecture on these trips, one educator says.

Click on the link to read the article about the recent OHS trip to Evergreen Cemetery.

http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/high-school-notes/2015/10/26/high-school-cemetery-field-trips-bring-history-to-life-for-teens

Game Plan for Oct 25-30

Layout and Design practice today and tomorrow

 Make teacher corrections to articles Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 27 and 28

Peer edit Torch articles Thursday, Oct 29

Final draft of articles by Friday—all copy ready for Layout and Design on Monday

Layout and Design assignments due Friday, Oct. 30

Send Mrs. H photos for your articles

Meet the Fall 2015 Torch Staff!

Fall 2015 Torch Staff

Due Dates for Oct. 16-23

Friday, Oct. 16--Group Editorial and Individual editorial cartoons due

Monday, Oct. 19--Brainstorming worksheet due

Tuesday, Oct. 20--completed, spell-checked, grammar-checked 1st draft of beat #2 due at midnight

Friday, Oct. 23--completed, spell-checked, grammar-checked 1st drafts of all 3 Torch stories due at midnight

Feature Leads

Descriptive—set the scene and paint a clear vivid picture for the reader

Narrative—tells a story.  Use dialogue and description.

Shocking statement—short snappy sentence in its own paragraph.  The

 second paragraph gives more details—grab the reader and pull him into the story

Suspense—similar to shocking, but build he suspense up first, then give more

details and the focus of the story

Quotation—uses an exact quote, but only if it is a compelling

 

 

 

Make sure in paragraph 2 to include the news peg.

 

 

 

Feature stories must have a conclusion which are very similar to a lead.

 

Usually the conclusion mirrors the lead—most writers use the same type for both lead and conclusion

 

Summary

Quotation

Surprise

Narrative

Descriptive

 

Evergreen Cemetery Link

The bios of the characters in this year's cemetery walk are at the bottom of this website:


http://www.mchistory.org/learn/programs/teacher.php

Update 7--Play a round of Argument Wars

This game will offer you some further experience with the case   Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier which we studied in class.  


Play the game:

https://www.icivics.org/games/argument-wars


The write a blog post describing your experiencing with the game.

NY Times Digital Edition Links

Here is the access link to the digital edition of the NY Times:


http://eedition.nytimes.com


User Name: 200294460
Password:  200294460

Update 5--NY Times Scavenger Hunt

The New York Times Scavenger Hunt

Use today’s New York Times to follow and answer the scavenger hunt that will help you get to know the different sections of the paper.  (The link to the NY Times is in the previous blog).

 COPY AND PASTE THIS INTO YOUR BLOG--LABEL IT AS UPDATE 5--NY Times Scavenger Hunt.

 1)      According to The Times, the high temperature for today will be:

2)      A front page news topic from today’s paper that I have read:

3)      One topic written about on the Op-Ed and/or Editorial pages today:

4)      Write the headline of an article related to science, health, or technology:

5)      Name a headline from The Times about a crime report:

6)    Letters to the editor of The Times appear on page:

7)      One famous person(prominence) whose photograph appears in the paper today is:

8)      Write the headline of an international news story:

9)      Name something—a book, play, film, restaurant, or anything else—that is reviewed in today’s paper:

10)  Using the review listed in question 9, in one sentence, describe how the reviewer felt about the article using textual evidence:

11)  Name one person whose obituary appears in today’s Times:

12)  Find and write out a direct quote that a reporter included in the Business section of The Times:

13)  Name one score from any game reported in the sports section today:

14)  Find an advertisement in the paper.  List the product:

15)  Word games are found on which page:

Update 6--Assessing the Front Page

Click on the link to the NY Times.  Browse the front page and answer the following questions in a post to your blog.

1.      Which items had the largest headlines?  Why?

2.     Which items had the smallest headlines?  Why?

3.     Which stories had photos?  Why?

4.     Consider the placement of the articles.  Does the position of a story (above or below the fold) affect the reader’s response to it?  Why?

5.     What other information does the front page include in addition to major news reports?  How does this extra information affect the reader’s attention?

6.     How many stories are on the front page? 

7.     How many stories are local?           National?        International?

8.     What do you find appealing about this front page?  What would you like to change?

Week 6 Vocab

Banner

Feature

Sidebar

Bias

News hole

Filler

Flag

Layout

Caption

Jump

VOCAB TEST ON FRIDAY!

Grammar Check Websites for Articles

Copy and paste your article into one of these grammar check websites.  It will provide feedback on your articles.  Most of the grammar advice is great!  If you are confused by its grammar suggestions, come see me!

https://www.paperrater.com/

http://www.polishmywriting.com/


http://grammark.org/dist/#/

Week 5 vocabulary

Week 5

Copy

Rule of thirds

Cropping

Gutter

Double-truck

Justified

Tombstoning

masthead

Balance

Column