Hello everyone!
Today is a work day. I would like you to focus your time on your News Story about the club or organization that you were assigned.
I expect that each of you will have something started on these stories TODAY. What does that mean? Well, here is a list of things that should be on your Google Doc by the end of the period:
a. Sourcing ideas (who will you talk to?)
b. Questions (what will you ask them?)
c. Research (what have you found out about that club, group, or organization?)
d. An outline (The basic structure - LTQT, you can at least lay the ground work for what you will eventually put in here
The next step will be to set up some interviews. I am going to talk about this in class and go over the best ways to get these done. There will be SOME class time available in the coming few weeks to do these interviews. We are going to work on Opinion Writing, but while we are doing those, you will have time to go out and interview.
This is when the class can feel a little chaotic, but I hope that you can manage. This is also a good way for me to see how well you handle deadlines and juggling multiple things at the same time. This is exactly what happens in the newspaper program and I hope a bunch of you are going to join us next year.
I will set a firm deadline and give you checkpoints to help you out. That will be posted next class with the new assignment.
Here is the assignment itself:
These stories will cover a club or organization on campus. You will do all of the same things you did for the fake "student of the month" story. ONLY this time it is real. You will need to write:
• 375-500 words
• Minimum 3 sources - one sponsor and 2 students involved
• Make sure your DIRECT QUOTES are in the proper style and format. Please look at the following for the correct use of punctuation, style and structure. Here are two more examples:
Single sentence quote:
“I would prefer digital because bubbling in the answer was annoying and just putting in the answers online would be more efficient,” junior Abby Oden said.
Two (or three) sentence quote:
“I’ve done proctoring for online testing before and one of the biggest things that are important is to get some familiarity with the testing platform,” English teacher Whitney Shumate said. “There is a different learning curve with online tests like students with accommodations should have some familiarity with the test since it’s a new thing.”
• LTQT style - with your attributions done correctly!!
• NO EDITORIALIZING
• You will be required to share your entire process including interview question writing, sourcing, interviews, rough draft and final draft. ALL ON THE SAME GOOGLE DOC.
Here is the link to the Google Sheet where the assignments live. Make sure you use the correct Google Doc. Make sure it is shared CORRECTLY, which means ANYONE with the LINK can EDIT.
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