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!

Thoughts on Freedom?

Please work on this assignment during class on Friday, April 24:

1. Click here to go to class wiki (Mrs. Gillmore's Info) and preview the PowerPoints concerning the 1st Amendment.
2. Now draft an editorial in Word stating your views of this amendment within our schools.
3. Finally, click here to go to the Think Tank and upload your editorial.

For those attending Prom tonight...enjoy...and be safe!

The Latest in Gillmore-Land!

I am out again today...thanks, I can hear those disappointed moans and groans all the way from here!

My stepson broke his ankle (very bad break) Tuesday evening and will have his surgery tomorrow at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

What might we work on today?

• PowerPoints: I heard from Mr. Clint. Sadly, he thinks your files are permanently gone. I am sorry! I truly know the feeling on a greatly magnified level...remember when I lost everything on my external hard drive...and had no backups? Total boo hoo!
• Today, if finished with your PowerPoints, view the other reporters PowerPoints. Then click on that reporter's name and leave unique comments or ask questions to stimulate some dialogue concerning this journalist on that reporter's page. First type your name; then the comment. Don't you just love technology?
• Reporters, please check comments...and respond!
• Stories? PLEASE email the stories going in this paper and save your "new" stories for the next paper. I did not get the next paper's pages put in a file...sorry! (Those family emergencies!)
• Questions? Please leave me a comment or send me an email. I will read them and respond.

As always, you are awesome, and I appreciate you!

Write, Write...and Write Some More!

Good afternoon, Ladies and Gent!

Once again I am away from the classroom. Today's hat that I have on is entitle "Praxis III Assessor," which simply means that I am assessing a new teacher so that she might obtain her "real" teacher's license.

While I am away...please work on the following:

1. Starting Friday, three of you will present per day your assigned journalist. Please respond in the comment section below and let me know which three will be presenting on Friday...thanks!
2. Let's get back in vocab mode...list three for Friday. Okay?
3. Write those stories! Need Quiz Bowl today! Please email me that story! Just received a photo of them competing this past weekend.
4. Swim story needed! Have photos we can use
5. Who's writing the track story? Anyone? Have photos...need story about recent meets and trophies they have received.
6. Other stories needed! Still have some space in this paper...hope to print on Friday afternoon!
7. So, yes! Write, write...and then write some more! Will have next paper's pages ready for you to begin placing to on Friday.

Hope everyone is having a grand day! Enjoy! Please leave me a comment below so I'll know that you read this blog post!

While the Teacher Is Away...

No, you may not play! Sorry, we must make more progress!

Paper will go to print on Friday. We will bind on Monday and then distribute. Okay?

Please do not make any changes to the newspaper pages as I have the final layouts with me. Need to make a change? Please email me the information or leave me a comment here.

In the meantime...

1. Work on your stories. Be a pest...bug your interviewees!
2. Finalize both of your journalist presentations. You will present both of them next week in the order of age, with the oldest journalist being presented first.
3. Let's create a printable Public Service Announcement/advertisement (PSA). Each of you should choose a different topic. Check here for a list of topics. Might peruse the Batesville Guard or other newspaper for such advertisements for layout and content suggestions.

Thanks for all you do!