Text Journalism Today Vocabulary and Activities by Six Weeks. First Six Weeks. 1. Chapter 1 (page 2-23)- History of American Journalism

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1 Text Journalism Today Vocabulary and Activities by Six Weeks First Six Weeks 1. Chapter 1 (page 2-23)- History of American Journalism #8 History of American Journalism Timeline Historical Figure or Publication Research/Powerpoint presentation 2. Chapter 20 (page )- The Impact of Technology Discuss how newspapers were produced before computers 3. Chapter 2 (page 26-53)- Meeting Ethical and Legal Responsibilities Supreme Court Case Studies

2 Second Six Weeks 4. Chapter 4 (page 82-95)- Organizing the Staff to Capture the News 5. Chapter 3 (page 58-79)- Deciding What is News 6. Chapter 6 (page )- Writing News Story Leads

3 Second Six Weeks - Continued 7. Chapter 7 (page & )- Writing News Stories 8. Chapter 5 (page )- Making the Interview Work 9. Chapter 8 (page )- Handling Quotes Fairly and Accurately

4 Second Six Weeks - Continued 10. Chapter 9 (page )- Doing In-depth Reporting 11. Chapter 11 (page )- Writing Feature Stories

5 Third Six Weeks 12. Chapter 13 (page )- Writing for the Editorial Page #8 13. Chapter 12 (page )- Writing Sports Stories 14. Chapter 10 (page )- Design and Layout Electronic Scrapbook Electronic Scrapbook Electronic InDesign Program Electronic InDesign Program (incorporate the News stories you have written in your design) #8 Electronic InDesign Program (incorporate the stories you have written in your design) 15. Chapter 7 (page )- Writing Headlines Read the pages and complete the following activities in your spiral: Write headlines to fit, for all of the stories you have written on your electronic layout from Ch.10

6 Fourth Six Weeks 16. Chapter 17 (page )- Handling Finances: Advertising and Business Adjustment: Use the information to prepare a sales letter to businesses, encouraging them to advertise in student publications. Include the publications current rate sheet and contract. Prepare the letters in class to mail. 17. Chapter 16 (page )- Understanding and Using Public Relations 18. Chapter 15 (page )- Writing for Radio and Television #8

7 Fifth Six Weeks Newspaper Practicum Students will be assigned a variety of stories and jobs for the Junior Hawk print publication and The Birdville Hawk Online newspaper publishing including but not exclusively news, features, opinions, sports, movie reviews, restaurant reviews, peer edit, advertising sales, and photography. Assignments and Deadlines TBA

8 Sixth Six Weeks 19. Chapter 19 (page )- Understanding Technical Aspects of Photography Read the entire manual for the camera you will be using for this chapter and chapter 18 Use a digital camera and the various digital camera settings Using a digital camera, shoot a photo essay, using only 5-7 pictures to tell a story (no text) 20. Chapter 18 (page )- Taking and Using Effective Photographs Photo Scrapbook #8 21. Chapter 14 (page )- Producing the Yearbook Divide the class into groups and complete this activity in groups Discuss this in small groups, contribute ideas to the whole class discussion, compile and conduct the survey as a whole class activity electronically. Each individual student in the class should create a poster according to this activity Electronically using InDesign Electronically using InDesign