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Building background: Starting the reporting process
This is a lesson on how to begin research for a feature story.Features and Personality Profiles
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Start strong, end strong
In this lesson, students will learn how to construct strong leads and endings to their feature stories by exploring leads types and experimenting with different leads and endings for their own features.Scene Building and Storytelling
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What’s in the middle of your feature?
In this lesson, students will learn how to organize the middle of a feature story and maintain a thematic connection throughout.Scene Building and Storytelling
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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
Writing
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
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Team interviewing fishbowl
This is a lesson that capitalizes on teamwork to develop questions and fishbowl an interview for the class.Features and Personality Profiles
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Types of feature stories
A lesson introducing and exploring feature story types.Features and Personality Profiles
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Developing questions for a profile
his is a lesson in which students develop interview questions and begin the interview process for their personality profile.Features and Personality Profiles
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Introduction to vignettes
Students will take a quiz over feature types and then read and discuss a vignette and what the reporter needed to do to write the piece.Scene Building and Storytelling
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What’s in the middle of your profile?
In this lesson on how to structure the middle of a profile, students will learn how to organize and heighten readability.Scene Building and Storytelling
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Writing a vignette
This is a lesson in which students will learn about feature style and begin crafting their first vignette.Scene Building and Storytelling
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Finding and focusing for fast turnaround
In this lesson on how to find and develop features quickly from start to finish, students will brainstorm feature ideas from the news, pitch those ideas for publication, then research, write, revise and publish in a three-day cycle.Features and Personality Profiles
Writing
Revising to be heard
This is a lesson on revision and literary elements to incorporate into feature writing.Scene Building and Storytelling
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Resources: Feature writing examples
The following includes links to a variety of feature story examples.Features and Personality Profiles
Writing
News writing tips and tricks
This is a multi-part lesson on how to write high-quality news articles that attract readers.Introduction to News Writing
Writing
Revising and editing news stories
Students will practice writing and editing their work in addition to editing other students’ work.Introduction to News Writing
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News defined: What is news?
This is a basic lesson to teach students to recognize that news must be informative, interesting and factual, or it is not news.Introduction to News Writing