BEST OF YEARBOOKS 2013

Best of Show

 Your assignment is to scour through the winners and produce a top-8 PowerPoint of takeaways from your evaluation of the winning entries. What is it they’re doing well? What makes them so interesting?

Focus on the newspapers, newspaper special editions and publication websites. There are links provided for the websites, for sure, but most of the newspapers listed probably have a web site and many of those will take you to a print edition of the publication. Use the "Google machine" to help you find those publications.

Please make sure that you don’t simply say “I like this” or “this is cool” but provide some reasoning behind your decision. Make this a tool we can legitimately use for learning.

Assignments such as these tend to be design-driven, but make sure some of your analysis looks at their writing, because that’s one area of focus we uncovered this weekend during our own publication critiques.

If you want to work with a partner, that’s fine – but then you will need to come up with 15 takeaways instead of 8. You will present your PowerPoint to the class on Thursday or Friday.

http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/showcase

http://www.yearbooks.biz/?event=Showcase.Gallery&award=1

CAREER TRACKER

TODAY WE'RE GOING TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME IN CAREER EXPLORATION.

LOG ON TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE:

CLICK HERE

WRITING A LEDE

YES "LEDE"  THAT'S HOW IT'S WRITTEN IN NEWSPAPER LINGO.  YOU'VE WATCHED THE CNN VIDEO ON "CRONUTS,"  THE COMBINATION CROISSANT AND DONUTS TAKING NEW YORK CITY BY STORM.  NOW IT'S YOUR TURN TO WRITE A LEAD.  DISCUSS YOUR LEADS WITH YOUR GROUP AND THEN CHOOSE THE BEST LEAD TO POST ON PADLET.

CLICK HERE FOR PADLET

ELEMENTS OF A GOOD LEDE
1. THE FIVE W'S AND H
2. CONFLICT
3. SPECIFICITY
4. BREVITY
5. ACTIVE SENTENCES
6. AUDIENCE AND CONTEXT
7. HONESTY

Instead of a promotion brochure, you will make a promotion invitation that you will be able to send out to friends and family telling them the details of your big day.

CLICK HERE TO START DESIGNING YOUR INVITATION

INTERNET SCAVENGER HUNT

April 26, 2013

(WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST COMING NEXT WEEK YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS!  PLEASE BE ON YOUR BEST BEHAVIOR TO AVOID BEING SENT OUT OF CLASS DURING THE VISIT)

PERIOD 5, 6 and 7

Click on the link below and complete the scavenger hunt on the sheet provided for you by the substitute.

**The websites to research are highlighted in BLUE.  Click on them and you we be taken directly
to the correct website for the question posed.

CLICK HERE FOR SCAVENGER HUNT WEBSITE

TURN IN THE SHEET AT THE END OF CLASS!!

STUDENT SURVEY

IF YOU ARE A 7TH GRADER CLICK HERE


IF YOU ARE AN 8TH GRADER CLICK HERE

"THE HELP"

Now that you have finished watching the movie, The Help, you will get a SECOND chance to answer questions related to the film.

You will also complete a MOVIE REVIEW.  Mr. Keller will explain how it will be written.

CLICK HERE TO COMPLETE ONLINE QUESTIONS ABOUT "THE HELP."