Introduction | Task | Process | Resources
You have just been hired by the local newspaper to write an unbiased column that will link different views from other newspapers around the world.
After finishing the book The Landry News, you will take on the role as a news reporter and will write for the local newspaper. You will have to review other articles from newspapers around the world, and choose a topic that is a current and enduring issue.
1.
Read The Landry News
2.
Look up different articles from various newspapers at http://newsdirectory.com/news/press
3.
Choose a topic that is a current issue in today’s world to write your article
about.
4.
Compile information gathered from various newspaper articles on you topic.
5.
Compose and unbiased article about your topic.
6.
After finishing your article, write a reflection about the different views
that were expressed in the articles that you researched. And tell
how the different views influence the public perception of the the issue
that is being reported on.
www.newsdirectory.com/news/press
The
Landry News by Andrew Clement
www.powa.org
*Teaches
the correct format to use in the writing process.
www.childrens-express.org/html/khome.htm
*Articles
published for and by children on issues important to them.
www.kidnews.com/
*Publishes
student writings from around the world
www.kidsreport.com/
*An
online newspaper for kids.
gsh.lightspan.com/project/newsday/index.html
*Students
write and produce their own newspaper.
TOP
Researched,
and composed an unbiased article on a current issue in the news.
Correct grammar, spelling with minimum of three errors.
Have
at least five unbiased facts in your article.
3
Researched,
and composed an unbiased article on a current issue in the news.
Correct
grammar, spelling with more than three errors.
Less
than five facts in your article.
2
Not
thoroughly researched, some bias showed in article.
Grammar
is missing throughout the article.
Facts
are not supporting your article.
1
www.english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/
units/newspaper/home.html
*A
teacher's unit plan on how to create a classroom newspaper
Created by Bess Cropper, Leah Eppard, Matt Feeney, Windy Phillips,
and Jennifer Skaggs
for Children's Literature 408 with Dr. Bond at Salisbury University