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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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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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Finding features: 20 stories about lockers
Students will individually brainstorm 20 stories about lockers, share ideas, and develop those ideas into viable story concepts.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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Developing problem-solution counterarguments
In this lesson, which comes after students have conducted research for a problem-solution structured editorial/column, students will use a template to think through the most likely counterarguments.Opinion and Editorial 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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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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A sneaky introduction to satire
This lesson tricks students by offering them a satirical school memo and pretending it is an official one, leading to a deep engagement with the subject matter.Satire