Mr. VerlinSouth Philadelphia High SchoolSeptember 22, 2010

Preliminaries Pre-class (10 classwork points)

Log on. Browse:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20030506tuesday.html

In a Word document, answer the following questions: From whose point of view is the article written? How would you describe the narrator’s tone (attitude)? On average, how many sentences are there in each

paragraph?

Review: Creating Word Documents Launching Word Common Interface Controls

Title bar Menu bar Scroll bar Insertion point Task pane

Help

Objectives: Writing News Articles Identify the common characteristics

of news writing. Write news articles about current

events in the IT Academy for the first issue of the newsletter.

Focus Lesson: Writing News Articles Common characteristics

Facts Opinions?

Terminology Byline Lead Sources

Primary Secondary

Point of View

Group Activity