Lessons focus on key journalism concerns such as responsible newsgathering and organizational skills. Emphasis is on the process of arriving at the finished product for student publications such as yearbooks and newspapers. Students evaluate and analyze peer work within the flexible lessons in this unit.
The last lesson includes several final exam options. The appendix features a glossary of journalism terms and a resource list of professional organizations that offer free or inexpensive items to supplement journalism work.
Academic activities include questioning; note-taking; organizing; creating news stories, features, editorials, columns, captions, and headlines; determining the newsworthiness of possible stories; interviewing strategies; generating questions for a press conference; analyzing online journalism and using technology to expand and improve writing skills.
Nonfiction,Research 1
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