Review Articles

Review Article
Goal:
Students will understand the function of product reviews as well as how to compose their own.

1. Students will discuss how to create a product review.
2. Students will understand how to incorporate details into their own product review.
3. Students will copy and understand how to write various types of reviews: Product, Movie, Book, Website, Television and Restaurant.

Assignment:
1. Students will select topics for REVIEW WRITING
3. Students will begin gathering background information for their review article

Rough Drafts are due on Monday, 1/17

Assignment 2:
Please correct your last article by 1/12 or 1/13.
Turn it in to www.turnitin.com
Make sure all edited copies are placed on the front desk by the end of the period each day.
You will receive up to 30 points for your rewrite.

1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material produced

Intro to reviews

Tuesday and Wednesday:
Reviews
Opening Activity:
Think of your favorite Christmas present. Write a brief paragraph discussing why you like this item. Include some of its features. Discuss how it works. Cite five reasons someone should buy this product.

Goal:
Students will understand the function of product reviews as well as how to compose their own.

1. Students will be introduced to the basic rules of review writing.
2. Students will discuss how to create a product review.
3. Students will understand how to incorporate details into their own product review.
4. Students will explore the greatest type of review: The INFOMERCIAL

Assignment:
1. Students will complete the writing activity listed above


1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material produced

News Package 2

12/20 Goal: Students will learn about reporting the news and creating news packages


Wednesday, 12/22:
complete initial treatments
*These must be approved by Mrs. Christian before you go on to the dry rehearsal
Friday,-Dry rehearsal AND work on Formal script/ storyboard
*there must be at least 3 people in a group for a dry rehearsal/ oral run through
-Please add suggestions and predict problematic areas in the production
-Make necessary changes
-Set up appointments to film


Projects will be due after the holiday

The following dates are TBA
_____- Turn in scripts after second dry rehearsal (Turn in scripts at the end of the period)
________- _____: Film days
-Please drop your video as soon as you return from filming each day
-You must sign out a camera even if you are using it during specified periods throughout the school day.

1.5.11.B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic
1.5.11.C- Write with controlled and/ or subtle organization
1.9.11.A: Use media and technology resources for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning. Identify complexities and inconsistencies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium

1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material produced

Monday, 12/13 -Thursday, 12/16: Work on rough drafts
Friday, 12/17- Articles are due....NO EXCUSES!!!!!

III. DAILY READINGS:

READ A NEWS ARTICLE IN THE TIMES LEADER.
NOTE THREE NEWSWORTHY EVENTS TO TALK ABOUT ON FRIDAY.

http://www.bhslit.blogspot.com/

(Each Thursday over the next two weeks - 12/9 and 12/16, you will submit 1 entry that will incorporate two news events from the week.)
1. State the news event
2. Tell how you feel about it
3. Tell why it is important

There is a comment box at the bottom of the blog. Please be sure to type the following information:

Your Name

Article Title

Date

Page/ section

Your Comment

1.5.11.B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic
1.5.11.C- Write with controlled and/ or subtle organization
1.9.11.A: Use media and technology resources for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning. Identify complexities and inconsistencies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium

1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material produced

New Articles

New Articles
12/3-12/17
Objective: Students will begin a new article
Students will brainstorm ideas
Students will begin the research and the interview process

I. DAILY ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday, 12/3- Brainstorm and assign articles
Monday12/6-Friday, 12/10- Create interview questions. Turn them in before the end of the period
Friday, 12/10: Begin to finalize research and interviews
Complete interviews must be turned in by the end of class.

Monday, 12/13 -Thursday, 12/16: Work on rough drafts
Friday, 12/17- Articles are due....NO EXCUSES!!!!!

III. DAILY READINGS:

READ A NEWS ARTICLE IN THE TIMES LEADER.
NOTE THREE NEWSWORTHY EVENTS TO TALK ABOUT ON FRIDAY.

http://www.bhslit.blogspot.com/

(Each Thursday over the next two weeks - 12/9 and 12/16, you will submit 1 entry that will incorporate two news events from the week.)
1. State the news event
2. Tell how you feel about it
3. Tell why it is important

There is a comment box at the bottom of the blog. Please be sure to type the following information:

Your Name

Article Title

Date

Page/ section

Your Comment

1.5.11.B- Write using well-developed content appropriate for the topic
1.5.11.C- Write with controlled and/ or subtle organization
1.9.11.A: Use media and technology resources for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning. Identify complexities and inconsistencies in the information and the different perspectives found in each medium

1.2.11B - use and understand a variety of media and evaluate the quality of material produced

First Amendment Quiz

Libel and First Amendment Test
Wednesday, Dec. 2

WRITE YOUR ANSWERS ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER.

GOOD LUCK !
1. How does the First Amendment begin?
A. "Four score and seven years ago...."
B. "When, in the course of human events...."
C. "Freedom of speech and of the press shall not be abridged...."
D. "Congress shall make no law...."

2. The Bill of Rights is:
A. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
B. The statement police must read to you when you are arrested.
C. The opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.
D. The Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

3.The First Amendment protects students while at school.
A. True
B. False

4.Which of the following is not a right explicitly protected by the First Amendment?
A. Press
B. Privacy
C. Assembly
D. Religion

5. Which of the following categories of speech is never protected by the First Amendment?
A. Indecent speech on the Internet
B. Four-letter words
C. Obscenity
D. Nudity

6. The First Amendment protects a person's right to burn the American flag as a form of political protest?
A. True
B. False

7. Bart is ticked off. To make time for more standardized testing, the public school he attends has decided to reduce recess to three minutes a day. To protest the school's decision, he publishes a one-page flyer that says "Recess Rules! Standardized Testing Drools." As he has seen many other community activists do before, he takes his flyers to the town square, where he peacefully offers copies to passerby. Which of the following acts probably violates his First Amendment rights?
A. A police officer politely orders Bart to stop distribution and go home
B. A local merchant, an ardent support of standardized testing, angrily rips the flyers out of Bart's hands and shreds them
C. Bart's mother, embarrassed by the all the hullabaloo, confiscates the flyers and grounds him for two weeks
D. All of the above

8. The U.S. Supreme Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects public school students while in school. Neither "students nor teachers," the Court said, "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." From which famous Supreme Court case did that language first come?
A. New York Times v. Sullivan
B. Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. School District
C. Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
D. Roe v. Wade

9. The Student Times is publishing a story about Leopard O'Shay, America's newest singing sensation, which includes a review of his latest CD, Spots Unplugged. As the Times feature editor, you'd like to use a photo of the rock star to illustrate your story. Unfortunately, O'Shay has just begun a World Tour and the chance of your photographers getting a shot of him in person is nil. What is your safest legal option?
A. Scan the cover art from Spots Unplugged.
B. Find a Leopard O'Shay fan site on the Internet and download a photo from there.
C. Use the photo of O'Shay that ran on last month's cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
D. Call O'Shay's record company and ask their publicity department to send you a photo to use with your story.

10. Students can protest as long as they do it (In the first amendment, what word tells how) ________________.

11. Define Libel:

12. Read the statement: "Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you."
(This statement came from the PowerPoint on Libel)

If you were applying this statement to your high school newspaper, would this statement prove true? Please give specific examples to support your answer.

13. Discuss the rules for taking photographs in private and in public.

14. After discussing the role of the media over the last two weeks, your class concluded that the media has tremendous power. How does the media influence society? Does the media cross the line?