Peer Review Day

Please Do Now:

1. Read the following two sports opinion articles from the Yale Daily News:
2. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27022
3. http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27280
4. The second writer seems to be almost directly criticizing the first. What side of the debate do you agree with? Why? What from the first piece constitutes valuable reporting or interesting writing? What is not valuable? Same for the second piece.

Today, students will:

1. Peer edit first drafts.
2. Conduct addtional reporting.
3. Begin second drafts.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Second drafts due Tuesday.

More Sports

Please Do Now:

1. Read the following article:  http://www.alligator.org/articles/2009/01/28/sports/basketball/090128_hoops.txt
2. And then this one: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iQEg121xiYXYqkOKmdI7sIRHcYsw
3. In what style are these articles written?  How can you tell?
4. What differentiates the reporting in these articles?  What is unique about how each article was reported?

Today students will:

1. Review sports reporting techniques.
2. Continue reporting.
3. Finish first drafts.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. First drafts due Friday.

More Sports

Please Do Now:

1. Read the following superbowl story: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/14400754/
2. What do you like about how this article is written?  What don’t you like?

Today, students will:

1. Peer edit sports planners.
2. Check the following resource (http://www.miamiherald.com/high_school_dade/)to update planners.
3. Begin reporting.
4. Begin first drafts.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. First drafts due Wednesday.

Sports Planner

Proximity and Timeliness are most important

 

 

What do you need to know about MBSH teams?

 

Roster (ranking)

(If senior, which college is interested in them)

Coaches

Starters

Freshman with potential

Captains

Schedule

Record of both MBSH teams and records of opposing teams

Terminology

Relevant statistics

Rules of the game

Crowd size

Both MBSH and opposing teams’ strong players

People involved

 

Where will this information come from?

 

Our side

MBSH Players

MBSH Coach

Water girl/person (anyone who follows the team)

After game

Trainers

Referees and Umpires

Miami Herald

District office of Sporting Events (mostly give football records)

Athletic Director

Alumni

 

Opposing teams (^ )

Facebook

Alumni

Newspaper

Sports 1 / Layout 3?

Please Do Now:

1. Review the sports section of The Hoya.
2. Discuss the ways in which sports coverage can resemble news, features, or opinion writing.  Use specific stories as examples, and quote from them to back up your claims.  (Show, don’t tell.)

Today, students will:

1. Discover the many angles of sports coverage.
2. Brainstorm how to cover a sports story and develop a planning form.
3. Develop sports story ideas.
4. Begin to plan stories.
5. Finish layout exercise if there is remaining time.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Fill out sports planner
2. *Optional* Read about your classmates!: http://www.edutopia.org/place-based-education-blogs-multimedia

Layout Day 2

Please Do Now:

1. Divide into your 5 groups. 
2. Take seats at the 5 computers that makes it as obvious to me as possible which group you are in.
3. Log onto the network as “beachcomber” - the password is hitides8.
4. Using the code I taught you in the last class, open the beachcomber drive, the 2008-2009 folder, the class assignment folder, and the journalism 1 class assignment folder.
5. Open the file numbered 1-5 that relates to your computer’s position from right to left (i.e, the rightmost computer opens fule number 5).
6. Quiet down and await my instruction.

Today, students will:

1. Practice placing text, articles and pictures.
2. Use the techniques we learned in last class to creat a full page layout. 

Tonight’s homework is:

1. Brainstorm 3 SPORTS story ideas (using the 8 news values we learned in the beginning of the year as a guide).

Layout Day

Please Do Now:

1. Hand in your A & E packets.
2. Take a seat in the very front of the room.

Today students will:

1. Learn simple layout techniques.

Tonight’s homework is:

1. None (for once!)