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