First: Research the term "bias." Look it up in the dictionary, online, talk about it. Write in the comment section your understanding of bias.
Next: Over the past couple days, a lot of you have been coming up with great story ideas from your opinions:
- Better food
- Tackle football
- Band
- Need for shade
- Security cameras
- Backpacks
- Uniforms
- Sports
- Jerking
From these ideas, we are going to expand our opinion articles into investigative articles. We are going to take your ideas and write unbiased articles.
We are going to find out more information about the food, why we don't have tackle football, how we can get more shade, how we can have more no-uniform days and more. These will be news articles so we will no longer be writing about how you feel, rather, about what's going on and how do these things affect students here at Castro.
We need to brainstorm where we can find this information, who we need to interview. You'll have to think up interview questions and find times to ask your questions. In a quick moment before class, before lunch and by talking to friends.
Directions for today:
1. Pick a topic. Either from Castro Cougar Courier, or a new topic.
2. Write a draft containing information you all ready know.
3. Brainstorm a list of things you need to find out and how you are going to find them out.
4. Think up possible interview questions for teachers and other students.
5. Brainstorm a list of pictures that will go with your story.
Objectives:
Students will come up with a great hook (or lead as it is called in journalism) to catch the readers attention.
Students will write a narrative that includes an engaging plot based on real ideas, observations or memories of an event or experience.
Students will write figurative language and descriptive words.
Students will use technology appropriate for the job.
Students will demonstrate positive work and interpersonal behaviors.
Students will understand and adjust to possible instance of libel and slander.
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