April 26 -- Warm-up

Click here for B-CC's article on student media

Your response?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

April 26 -- Warm-up

Click here: The Power of Words

The picture above was in my family's old farmhouse over break.  Don't know why it is there, but it struck me that so many things have changed since I was a small girl there visiting my wonderful great grandmother and dealing with my fear of her mean rooster.  Now they are drilling for natural gas just behind the mountain and everyone is worried that the well water will go bad with their hydro-fracking chemicals.  I was trying to think of ways that you could fashion an ad campaign to make people aware of the need for clean water and a journalism educator sent the above link to the list serv I follow.  I am still looking for the right words on the water, but this video illustrates the power of the RIGHT words.
 
Think about someway you would change something with just the right words.  Give an example to the class when we discuss.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.

April 12 - Readings for today - can you localize any of these?

Click here for waiting out a year on college

Click here for story on student college loans

Click here for saving and winning with community college
Click here of South Park and Mormon connection

Click here for Trump for President -- what is he thinking?

Click here for latest on Japan's nuke problem

Pick one of these and write how you would localize it.  Who would you talk to?  Write ten questions you would ask.  You may be asked about any of these in a quiz. 

20 pts. 

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Journalism Protocol from McCormick Foundation

http://www.mccormickfoundation.org/Civics/programs/files/pdf/JournalismProtocol.pdf

Look this over. Then write a piece about your responsibility to the truth.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

Bob Woodward: ‘You get the truth at night, the lies during the day’ | Poynter.

Bob Woodward: ‘You get the truth at night, the lies during the day’ | Poynter.

Read this.  Be prepared for a quiz tomorrow on this and on current events.

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md

April 7 -- Beautiful story about losing

Click here for Butler loss during NCAA tournament

Read the news article with this AND watch the video.

What do you think about losing after reading/watching this video?

Is this a sports story or a feature or a hybrid?  Did you read it all?  Did the material engage you?  Why or why not?

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md