Gillmore Cafe Choices!

Please take some time today to research your historical journalist. Remember to save the URL's to your sources!

Remember your goal is to create a PowerPoint presentation to aide in your presentation. Please limit the number of words on a slide...few to none! Use pictures, phrases, charts, graphs. This is not something your viewers are to sit and read; it's purpose is to simply aide in our understanding of your journalist.

Please check with your "people" to see if they have completed your interview questions. Goal: to create a hard-copy newspaper next week!

Ready to be published authors?

Please leave me a comment with any questions or concerns.

You are great! Thanks!

Sept. 15: Questions! Questions! Questions!

Today....let's first work on interview questions on our new club and sports stories.

1. Write questions for several people for each story.
2. Print and disperse (either via email or by hand-delivering.

September 3: A Historical Perspective

Today, we need to spend some time

1. completing feature stories. Type! Type! Type!
   
2. creating masthead...be creative! I have placed some links to a few Pioneer mascots here.
   
3. reading PowerPoints (click here to access them) about the history of journalism. Click on the first three links. Read! Read! Read! We will discuss these on Friday. Be ready!
   
4. embedding your leads here. Thanks, Chelsea and Destiny, for linking your leads!

August 31: Work Day

Today, I have to leave a little early...about 2:00. My daughter Holly is sick, and I need to take her to the doctor.

Hopefully, your interview questions are returning! Yes? No? Please let me know if I need to email anyone and "gently" remind them the importance of their returning the questions.

As you begin composing your leads, are there others you should interview? If so, prepare those questions and plan to deliver them today. On Cafe Newspaper, two reporters linked their links from Thursday's class. If you are not quite finished, you may use some of today's time working on those.

Please plan to also include plenty of quotes throughout your feature. For a review of quotation marks, please click here and work through the last three links.

Now, think about which question you want to ask your featured person...going "LIVE!" Today, you may spend some time "playing" with a flip video camera.

• When is your interview scheduled? You may leave me a comment below when you have a date and time. Thanks!

Remember, we have two-ongoing assignments:

1. New Masthead Competition! Deadline this Friday, Sept. 4!
2. Research your famous historical journalist.

Plenty to do! Busy! Busy! Busy! ~~ Type! Type! Type!

Are the Results In?

Great job on interview questions...I have already received one sent back in my mailbox...hoping you have heard from yours in your email...?

Your assignment now:

1. Read your interview questions. Decide your angle. Develop your lead.
2. Set up your "live" interview! Practice with the flip video cameras.

Other t0-do jobs:

1. Research your historical journalist.
2. Create a masthead for the competition.

Busy! Busy! Now...go type! Type! Type!

Let's Get Started!

Thanks for joining the newspaper class!

So far, your assignments are...

1. Famous historical journalist.
2. Masthead contest.
3. Feature story.
4. Read the information about the history of journalism and the 1st Amendment.

Today, we need to discuss the inverted pyramid and create and distribute your interview questions.

Upcoming Deadlines:

• Masthead: September 3
• Feature Story: September 3
• Famous Historical Journalist: 2nd Nine Weeks

Let's go to work!

The Delimma

Plagued by unprinted papers...if nothing else, that was a pretty good use of alliteration!

Update your pages with what you can...we will work on this on Wednesday afternoon.

When finished, yes, study for those tests you have tomorrow!

Good luck!