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Writing
Journalism Versus English Class Writing
In this lessons, students learn the differences between journalistic and english class writing and how to apply that to their news writing.Introduction to News Writing
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AP Style Introduction
In this lesson, students are given an introduction to AP style.Introduction to News Writing
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Tightening for Clarity
In this lesson, students learn how to tighten their journalistic writing for clarity.Introduction to News Writing
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Modeling a Profile Interview
This lesson (first in a three-lesson series) is an excellent way to start writing instruction. The series of lessons will ask students to write the beginning of one of the most basic journalistic forms: a profile story based on interviews of a single source.Features and Personality Profiles
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Conducting the First Interview
This lesson asks students to interview a classmate as preparation for writing the beginning of one of the most basic journalistic forms: a profile story based on interviews of a single source.Features and Personality Profiles
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Laundry Lists and Magical Second Interviews
This lesson asks students to edit a sample beginning of a feature profile story.Features and Personality Profiles
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Designing an editorial cartoon
This lesson helps all students develop this skill by asking students to design their own editorial cartoons and offer feedback on classmates’ cartoonsSatire
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Use reading strategies to peer edit
In this lesson, students will learn to consider readers’ needs when writing stories and designing pages.Introduction to News Writing
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Practicing form: Fairy tale news stories
In this lesson students will use fairy tales to practice writing news stories without the added complexity of conducting interviews and outside research.Introduction to News Writing
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Introduction to personality profiles
This is a lesson to introduce profile basics including content, differing types and the final assignment of a 500-700 word profile.Features and Personality Profiles
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Personality profile: Finding a theme and gathering information
In this lesson about what makes a good profile subject and how to gather information, students will begin by reading a third profile and discussing it. They will then explore what makes a good subject and angle as well as what a reporter must do to construct a good profile. Finally, the teacher will introduce the rubric and clarify expectations.Features and Personality Profiles
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News reports versus feature stories
Students will discuss the concept that everyone has a story. Then, students will learn the differences between news and features.Features and Personality Profiles