Nove. 5 - Assignment - Write the opinion piece and email to me via newfrontierinbox@gmail.com

My car in front of one of our great American symbols.

First up, think about how President Obama must feel today.

Now, back to work.

So, the PBS Student Reporting Lab has been busy with the election coverage. Be sure you look at all the videos and read the text.

Now look at the graphics the students did. Click to see that here.

Read through it. Actually dig down into the data and take notes on your reaction. What did students care about? Who took the survey? Where were they? What surprised you? What do you have an argument with and why?

ASSIGNMENT: Read the graphics. Take a random sample of students on the bus or after school today and ask them some of the same questions on the graph. Try to get an idea why students feel the way they do. Do this as an observer. Do not offer your own opinion. THEN DO THE FOLLOWING:

Write an opinion piece (editorial) (at least two or three paragraphs)on the data that you see in these graphs and the attitudes you learned about from your fellow classmates.

Turn them in to newfrontierinbox@gmail.com. I am going to read and grade them.

Honestly, I am looking at how you will make meaning and synthesize the data in those graphs. Relate them to personal observations you have about youth and politics. Are you and your friends apathetic? Pessimistic or optimistic? Look around.

I will grade over the weekend but I will check the email time stamp. Due: Thursday, Nov. 6.

Ms. Greer

Silver Spring, Md.

Nov. 3 - Today's assignment (turn into sub, please)

Ms. Greer is watching!

So we have 4 summatives due this quarter and this is no mystery, they are news packages. We need to be better at feeding the news beast, our dearly beloved, www.jfknewfrontier.com.

On Wednesday, I will send you a schedule of the due dates.

Again, that is a 300-word story that has a great headline, a compelling picture that draws in your reader, and some kind of media (audio, video, slideshow).

I cannot stress enough how much easier this all is if you actually interview at least three people who are close to you story.

Tomorrow is the election. Listen to this interview I just heard about voters. It is sound rich, you can see the people talking and you get inside their heads a bit. Even if you do not agree with the people interviewed, you will agree that the journalist helps us see how complicated this election and politics and peoples' attitudes are. Your job as a journalist it to show the issues and be objective. Listen how the reporter asks questions, how he humanizes the people he talks to. Be like that guy. LISTEN.

Write up your reactions to this and turn into sub. Compare the two voters. What did you notice about the way the reporter did his work?

Also, check out this NYTIMES photographer about covering the Climate March in NYC that I also shot. Why does "technology is not your friend" sound familiar?

10 pts formative

NO LATE WORK!!

Ms. Greer
Silver Spring, Md.