Box Files

Monday, October 13, 2014

2013-14 Crimson Chronicle Critique

For the first time, the Crimson Chronicle has received a First Class designation from the National Scholastic Press Association. Read the critique of last year's paper in the shared documents folder in Drive. Write three comments on what you read. Post those comments here.

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Lie Detector Challenge | The News Literacy Project

 In honor of National News Engagement Day today, please complete this challenge.

Lie Detector Challenge | The News Literacy Project

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Summary lead writing

 Refer to this slide presentation if you get stuck in writing your own lead.

Summary lead writing

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Eight Elements of News

Review this presentation on the eight elements of news. Then, if you are a new student, go to quizstar.4teachers.org and take the quiz. If you already took the quiz, take the makeup quiz. If you took it once, I have re-set each one for two attempts. The first quiz has a time limit of 10 minutes; the makeup has a time limit of five minutes.

Eight Elements of News

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

National Scholastic Press Association Critique

We finally received our critique of the five issues we submitted last year.
Your Assignment: read the critique in the box above and write a response to one of the strengths cited by the judge and one of the weaknesses. Specifically, what can we do to improve on our weaknesses? Post your response on the blog.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Spring Semester: Assignment No. 1

 Read the following article and write three quote/responses. By quote, I don't mean someone speaking in the article, I mean a phrase or sentence that you choose to quote from the article. In your response, write what the quote means to you, why you chose it, or why you find it significant.
When you censor student speech, you’re mostly teaching kids to live with censorship.

Friday, January 3, 2014