Pd 5 Journalism

 

Page Layouts:

Front 1: Shirley

News 2: Sejla

Student Highlights 3: Josh

Features 4: Wade

Flair 5: Taylor

Center 6-7: Na'imah

Sports 8: Tim

Sports 9: Jamar

Commentary 10: Shontillious

Commentary 11: C.J.

Voices 12: Kelly

Editor-in-chief: Na'imah
Managing Editor: Chris
Assistant Managing Editor: Tim
Director of Graphic Design: C.J.
Photography Editor: Wade 
Copyediting team: Shontillious, Chris, Shirley, Sejla, Tim, Kadeem

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 October 2009        
 Week of . . . Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday Friday 
5-9    Review layout ideas

*J1: parts of a Newspaper
*JH: Begin Layout

 *J1: Elements of Good Design
*JH:   Layout
*J1: How to Layout a Page
*JH: Layout/Partner with J1 
*AE Reports
*Photos due

*AE Quiz
 12-16  No School/ Teacher Work Day   *J1: History of Journalism WebQuest *J1: Yellow Journalism WS  *JH: Pages due minus photos
*J1: History of Journalism Quiz
Current News Quiz
 19-23 Add photos to pages Pages due (C.J. print) *Copyedit pages Baby Lindbloom's due date!
*Copyedit pages
 Current News Discussion
26-30    Revised pages due Final Pages due!!! 
Mr. R fill out PO in front office
  Na'imah, CJ, Kadeem, and  Chris check all pages *CJ make PDFs and PDF book   *Pages sent to printer

 AE Reports

Track a current news event assignment posted in documents. Due Nov.9

 November 2009        
 Week of . . . Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday Friday 
2-6  

 No School/

Election Day/
Teacher Work Day

Study glossary of newspaper terms. Posted under documents. Study glossary. Catch up on weekly news for quiz Friday. Study for glossary quiz. 

 Current News Quiz

DUE:Portfolios

 9-13   Journalism news log summary due.   News log summaries

 Last Day of MP1

PDF sent to printers.

 

 AE Reports

Editorial Board meeting

 16-20   All the President's Men Newspaper arrived from printers 

  Discuss last edition.

News log summaries

  Distribute paper. Work on stories  Current News Discussion
23-27    Quiz: Newspaper terminology.    Half-Day  Thanksgiving  No School

 December 2009        
 Week of . . . Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday Friday 
30 Nov. - 4 Dec.    Peer Edit Articles Re writes    In class interviews   Prepare AE report  AE Reports
 7-11          Current News Quiz
 14-18          AE Reports

 January 2010        
 Week of . . . Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday Friday 
4-7          Current News Discussion
 11-15          AE Reports
18-22  No School
Martin Luther King Jr. Day

 DUE: Portfolios      Exam Review
25-29  Exam Review  Exams 1 and 2  Exams 3 and 4  Exams 6 and 7  Exam 5

        September 2009        
 Week of . . . Monday  Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday Friday 
7-11   No School

 *Course Overview and Sheet Distribution

*Partner Interviews

*Look at past issues

*J1: My Personal News Source WS

*JH: Brainstorm strengths and areas for improvement

*DUE: signed expectation sheets, PT contracts, code of conduct

*President's Speech

*J1: School Scavenger Hunt

*JH: Review job descriptions and apply for positions

*JH: The Shaky War on Errorism

*DUE J1: Scavenger Hunts
*DUE JH: Errorism Article paragraph

*Stories of Summer 2009 Brainstorm 

*JH: meet with Mrs. L to discuss applications

*Choose Areas of Expertise for biweekly reports

*J1: "News Determinants WS

*JH: receive job assignments, create teams, lead class in issue I brainstorm  

 14-18   News Determinants Powerpoint   *J1: "Examining the Contents of a Newspaper" WS *J1: News Determinants QUIZ      Area of Expertise Reports
 21-25

 *Receive Current News groups
*DUE: JH stories
*Check on InDesign

*Kadeem and Mrs. L check all stories & conference

*DUE: J1 stories
*DUE: all photo requests
*Kadeem and Mrs. L check all stories & conference 
*JH: choose a recent story and compare local with national coverage
  *Current News Discussion  *Work on story rewrites
28-Oct. 2  No School/
Teacher Work Day

  DUE: Story Rewrites (Kadeem must approve your story)

*Story conferences and rewrites

 *read "Yale Daily News Competes with National News"  and discuss in SchoolSpace 
*New Haven Register Coverage of Annie Le

*Yale Daily News (search for Annie Le)

 AE Reports