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Wheatley's Journalism Class (a semester introductory course) What is journalism according to Wikipedia? NEWSPAPER Vocabulary Vocab Game: GAME: "Decide which words go to which categories. Drag the words on the left and drop them in the appropriate categories' boxes on the right." Newspaper Scavenger Hunt classroom newspaper template from "Reading Rockets" Want to CREATE a classroom newspaper? WEBQUESTS WEBQUESTS: The following are great for creating a newspaper online and loaded with interesting information. "Shelbyville Newspaper" Web Quest link: "You've been selected to join a team and create a local newspaper! The newspaper will be used to publish the article you have already written in class, but you must work together to create ads, cartoons, and a puzzle and use illustrations to put together this week's newspaper." "Extra...Extra...Read All About It!" Web Quest "You are going to be looking at other newspapers to learn how to write a newspaper article of your own. Along the way, you will have questions to answer on your student sheet to help you learn about newspapers." RESOURCE: NIE in Arkansas' website EXCELLENT Resource for teachers with Teaching Ideas and Activities and even PRINTABLES! News from Scholastic News from Time for Kids ~ LESSON PLANS FOR TEACHERS: Creating a Classroom Newspaper This lesson plan is AWESOME! "Let's Write a Newspaper STORY" from the following website: "With this easy-to-follow course, you will help students write authentic newspaper stories based on training developed during an educational partnership between the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Hammond Elementary School in Laurel, Md." STUDENTS, click here to start "Let's Write a Newspaper STORY." "During this project you are going to become a real newspaper writer. Your teacher is going to offer you four story ideas to choose from, or you can pick your own story." GOING TO A NEW SCHOOL CAN BE EXCITING! Our Kennedy students already know their 2009-2010 assigned school. Come along with us on virtual tours. The schools are listed alphabetically. Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Coachman Fundamental" at this website: Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Dunedin Highland Middle School" at this website Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Largo Middle School" at this site: Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Oak Grove Middle School" at this website: Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Palm Harbor Middle School" at this website: Click on "Take a Virtual Tour of Safety Harbor Middle School" at this website: The PROJECT choices that follow are from: Read, Write, Think. Following you will find a list of possible PROJECTS my students in Beginning Journalism will be creating in groups about their new proposed schools. Stapleless Book Book Cover Flip Book Letter Generator ReadWriteThink Printing Press For creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. Other Possible PROJECTS: Photo Story Power Points For project "STOP BULLYING," go to my webpage titled "Character Development." After the above, we will return here for instructions on how to make Public Service Announcements." NOW WE WILL LEARN HOW TO MAKE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS. http://www.wiredsafety.org/wiredlearning/psa/ Here is the link to Art Wolinsky's online lessons "Making a Public Service Announcement." Copyright 2007 Parry Aftab and Wiredsafety.org Now we will view some examples from the Ad Council's PSA Gallery. Click on the web address in the next section. Click here: For more examples of PSA's, lesson plans, and ideas, CLICK HERE: