After this, your most important task is to get some interviews completed, but if you aren't heading out on interviews, please complete the following:
Please see what has been written on your topic already (you might have to generalize a bit). You can do this by searching GoogleNews, Topix, or the school newspapers linked to the right.
Once you find a similar feature story, create a link to it in a post on your weblog, analyze and evaluate it:
List the sources used.
What was the most interesing information?
What was the angle (person or event that the story focuses on or tells the story through)? Did you find this effective? Why or why not?
In what ways will you do something similar in writing your story? How might you approach your article differently?
Like yesterday's assignment (the reporting plan), this will be graded at the end of next week, as part of your Out Day Logs.
Homework: Continue to keep up on the news and do research for your topic. You will need two sources and two direct quotes (from an interview) for the 400 word deadline on Thursday. Not all sources need to be people.
Read chapters 4 and 5 of The Radical Write. There will be a news and reading quiz on Monday.
Objective:Students will evaluate published work on their chosen feature topic.
NJLALCCS 3.1 READING
H. Informational Text
9. Read and compare at least two works, including books, related to the same genre, topic, or subject and produce evidence of reading (e.g., compare central ideas, characters, themes, plots, settings) to determine how authors reach similar or different conclusions.
3.2 WRITING
B Writing as a Product
7 Use primary and secondary sources to provide evidence, justification, or to extend a position, and cite sources from books, periodicals, interviews, discourse, electronic sources, etc.
Assessment: Out Day Blog post