Monday, September 14

• AP Style Slideshow
• AP Style Practice

Tuesday, September 15

• AP Style Practice
• Create your own AP Style reference sheet with top 10 rules

Wednesday, September 16

• AP Style Slideshow
• Finish AP Style reference sheet with top 10 rules

Thursday, September 17

• Make up work due
• Update Journal Table of Contents and add pages to journal

Friday, September 18

• Review game photos from Thursday night game
• Assign football stories for the WO Independent
• Assign photographers for Monday night volleyball game
• Turn in make up work

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Monday, September 21

• Introduce News Writing format
• Read through first UIL prompt and construct the lead, transition 1, and quote 1
• Create a google doc of the story

Tuesday, September 22

• Review News Writing format L-Q-T-Q-T-Q
• Construct transition 2/quote 2 and transition 3/quote 3
• Add to story in google doc

Wednesday, September 23

• Warm Up Activity – AP Style #5
• Review story components to this point
• Construct remaining transition/quote for a complete story
• Proofread and make edits; submit through google docs

Thursday, September 24

• Read through News Story #2 prompt
• Pick out the 5W’s and H for lead and transition #1
• As a class construct the lead, transition 1, and quote 1
• Create a google doc for the story

Friday, September 25

• Review News Story #2
• Construct transition/quote 2 and transition/quote 3
• Journal Grade

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Monday, August 24

• Complete the Famous Journalism assignments and turn in. Assignment counts as a test grade.
• Work through Edgenuity and check assignments related to History of Journalism.

Tuesday, August 25

• Introduction to Sportswriting: lead, transitions, quotes (notes)

Wednesday, August 26

• Continue sportswriting format using statistics and team background
• Learn the importance of interviewing and how to get the quotes you need.

Thursday, August 27

• Bad Weather Day

Friday, August 28

• Write a sample sports brief using detailed information and stats from football and volleyball games.
• Discuss briefs and make edits/corrections to produce final draft for publication

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Monday – August 17, 2020

• Continue with notes on the History of American Journalism
• Identify key publishers and events
• Zenger Trial

Tuesday – August 18, 2020

• Google Classroom Bell Ringer: Zenger Trial
• Freedom of the Press and The Penny Press
• Famous Journalists/Reporters

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

• Effects of the Telegraph
• Yellow Journalism/Journalists/Hearst & Pulitzer
• Muckraking and newspapers developing a significant social consciousness – explain and elaborate on the News medium of magazines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries)
• Native American Newspapers

Thursday, August 20, 2020

• Review for Journalism Test on Friday
• Edgenuity Lessons
• Assign Students a Famous American Journalist to research and create a one sheet

Friday, August 21, 2020

• History of American Journalism Test
• Work on Famous American Journalist one sheet

TEKS 110.62.01, 110.62.02

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Monday – August 10, 2020

• Introduction and Coursework
• Procedures/guidelines/grading policy
• Set up Journal/Table of Contents

Tuesday – August 11, 2020

• Complete and turn in Journalism Questionnaire
• Open google docs and give instructions on proper heading for story format
• Write a one page paper: Every Summer Has a Story (due Wednesday)

Wednesday – August 12, 2020

• Check email/make assignment/student feedback quiz on email assignment
• Google Classroom set up; give students code to join
• Remind 101 code to join
• Show students the Maroon & White online newspaper

Thursday – August 13, 2020

• Check email for assignments and instructions
• Return Summer story in Google docs
• Remind 101 Code

Friday – August 14, 2020

• Introduce History of American Journalism
• Important terms/early newspapers
• Establishment of Freedom of the Press
• Introduction to the Zenger Trial