3/11/10

Thursday-Friday, March 11-12, 2010

Objective(s):
By the end of today you will...

1.Finish your MASTHEAD and / or Secondary Story/Article making sure that all guidelines are strictly followed.
2. Provide Feedback to 2 peers regarding their FEATURE STORY or MASTHEAD using the Quick Feedback form.

Language Objective: What are the parts of a newspaper? What is a mockup?

Agenda:
1. Warm Up (10 minutes)

2. Announcements
3. Feature Story / Secondary Story Examples
5. Work on Newspapers
6. End of day Gallery Walk / Quick Feedback for Primary Story (last 10 minutes of class)
7. Exit Slip

Warm Up:
1. Today we are supposed to start working on Secondary Story layouts. Copy down the required criteria (on the checklist) for this section.

`headline

size

text

arial

spread

columns

jumpline

justify

picture
2. What parts of this newspaper project should have already been completed?

1,2,3
3. Are you behind, ahead, or right on track with this assignment? Do you think you will complete

it on time?

nothing really
4. When you are done with this warm-up, open up your newspaper and start working

3/8/10

Monday-Tuesday, March 8-9, 2010

Objective(s):
By the end of today you will...

1.Finish your MASTHEAD.
2. Begin and Finish laying out your Primary Story/Article, making sure that all guidelines are strictly followed.
3. Provide Feedback to 2 peers regarding their MASTHEADS using the Quick Feedback form.

Language Objective: What are the parts of a newspaper? What is a mockup?

Agenda:
1. Warm Up (10 minutes)

2. Announcements
3. Gallery Walk / Quick Feedback for Mastheads
4. Feature Story Examples
5. Work on Newspapers
6. Gallery Walk / Quick Feedback for Primary Story
7. Exit Slip

Warm Up:
1. What is the MASTHEAD of your newspaper?

the ronnie times

2. When is this project due?

march 18
3. What part of the newspaper should have been completed by Friday?

1,2
4. What are we supposed to work on today?

the feature article

6. What is the ONE-MIC Rule?
5. Do a search on Google.com. What movie won best picture last night at the Academy Awards?

Thursday-Friday, March 4-5, 2010

Thursday-Friday, March 4-5, 2010

Objective(s):
By the end of today you will...

1. Practice Feature Article layout by completing another Mock Newspaper
2. Begin your Final Project by working on the MASTHEAD and others.
3. Know the timeline to completion

Language Objective: What are the parts of a newspaper? What is a mockup?

Agenda:
1. Warm Up (10 minutes)

2. Announcements
3. Feature Story Practice Mockup
4. The Final Project (page 19)
5. Work on Mastheads

Warm Up:
1. What tool do we use so that one text box connects to another text box?

the chain tool
2. What does it mean to JUSTIFY text?

to align youre text on both edges
3. What is a MOCKUP?
4. Why do we use dummy text?

fake text

5. Go to http://www.lipsum.com/ and generate 2 paragraphs of dummy text. Copy and paste it here.

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