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Week of November 19:
Students will finalize the newspapers Statement of Ethics, turn in self-assigned homework, and meet within their sections to confirm what steps need to be taken to have all stories turned in to editors on Wed, Nov 26th.
Week of November 12:
Wednesday, students will agree upon a calendar of deadlines for the remainder of the semester and make decisions about how to bring the paper to press. Students will turn in their self-assigned homework for their sections.
Friday, students will grade themselves and their partners on their belief posters. Students will hand in self-assigned homework. Collectively, students will generate a statement of ethics to use for the paper. There is a possibility the GT teacher, Dr. Sweeney, will be joining us to provide enriched instruction. If she does, the aforementioned will be postponed until next Monday.
Week of October 29th:
On Wednesday, students will finish their interviews for positions on the newspaper staff. Then they will display their Belief Posters around the room, completing a "Walk and Talk", which will give them time to examine each other's work. After the "Walk and Talk" each group will have the opportunity to explain the belief on which they chose to focus and how they brought it to life.
Friday students will vote on the title of our class newspaper (from the options they generated), and then begin a short unit on Political Cartoons and Democracy.
The unit we are doing on Beliefs (interviews, statements of belief and the posters) are all borrowed from NPR's This I Believe curriculum, which will culminate in narrative writing.
This I Believe Curriculum from NPR
Journalism Syllabus
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