Thursday, October 30, 2008

10/30/08 Assingment

Post on your blog:1. Three people to interview for article topic.
2. 10 good questions for each person. All of your questions will not be the same for each person.
1.principal
2.teachers
3.students

principal:
1.why are classes so long?
2.can u make them shorter?
3.Do you think its fair?
4.How do you feel about this?
5.Should they get a brake to stretch?
6.Do you think they get bored being in there?
7.How can you change this?
8.Do you think its right or wrong?
9.How long are we gonna have this till?
10.

Teachers:
1.Do you like long class period of teaching?
2.would you like to take brakes?
3.do you get tired?
4.Do you like class long?
5.would you change the classes to a short period?
6.If classes were shorter do you still get paid the same?
7. Do you think students learn more with longer periods?
8. Do the kids get annoying after a while?
9.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

10/28/08 Assignment

ARE CLASS PERIODS TO LONG?

1. Choose Topic.
2. What is the issue?the issue is that class periods are being to long and kids get tired of sitting down to much.
3. Who is involved?students and some teachers are involved
4. Who could you interview for more information?i could interview the principal or who ever is in charge of class periods
5. Is your topic relevant? Will faculty, students, parents care about the issue?
yes parents, students, and faculty would care about this issue beacause it affects all of them and they would want something better for students.



Friday, October 24, 2008

10/24/08 Assignment

Who?
Who is involved?The elderly
Who does/did the situation affect?The elderly
Who said so?The elderly themselves and doctors.

What?
What is happening?A transplanted cornea was expected to work for 5yrs in the 1950's according to some doctors.
What did happen?The transplanted cornea which was made before the Eiffle Tower in 1887, is still working after 123yrs.
What are the consequences?The cornea can still be used.
What is different about this?it can still be used by people
What are the choices?Keep using the cornea until it can't see anymore.

When?
When did or will this happen?It's been going on ever since the cornea was first transplanted into someone all the way up to now.
When was this discovered?1950's-and still now

Where?
Where did or will this happen?France

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen?It happened because a cornea, which was taken from an elderly many born in 1885, is still able to see after 123yrs.

How?
How did it or will it happen?
How much does it cost?Unspecified.
How many people does this affect?Whoever gets the transplant.
How do you feel about this?I think its ok i guess but it doesnt really interest me.

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1.More longer lunches
2.More after school pograms
3.Shorter class periods
4.More pep rallys
5.Akins football and why arent they winning!

Monday, October 20, 2008

10/16 assingment

Article 1:WHO:Teens
WHAT:Harwired to sleep longer
WHEN:06-18-2004
WHERE:Norwalk
WHY:Early start of school
It is hard news

Article 2:WHO:Non-athletic kids
WHAT:Can do other things to raise fitness level
WHEN:08-19-2004
WHERE:Toronto
WHY:Kids getting bigger
It is soft news

Article 3:WHO:Kids
WHAT:Ban food
WHEN:07-17-2004
WHERE:Boston
WHY:Kids watching too much Tv
It is soft news

Article 4:WHO:Teens
WHAT:Drugs
WHEN:07-05-2004
WHERE:Canada
WHY:Youth is doing drugs
It is hard news

10/09 review

Who?Who is involved?Article 1: Obama, Mccain, Palin, and Cindy Mccain
Article 2: Christina Sunnarah and her colleagues, various people around the world (educators, artists, therapists, scholars and activists)
Article 3: Congress, Republicans and Democrats
Who does/did the situation affect?Article 1: Obama and MccainArticle 2: ChildrenArticle 3: Republicans and Democrats
Who said so?Article 1: Associated PressArticle 2: Christina ShunnarahArticle 3: Carl Hulse and David M. Herszenhorn
What?What is happening?Article 1: Obama and Mccain and trying to gain support while attacking each other in debates as to why the other isn't good.Article 2: Christina wants to expand the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IBPYP)into schools to help kids.Article 3: Democrats and Republicans are fighting for seats in Congress.
What did happen?Article 1: Obama is ahead in the polls.Article 2: Christina held a presentation to garner support for the idea.Article 3: The Democrats are winning the fight.
What are the consequences?Article 1: Mccain is going to have to spend more than $90 million dollars on advertisements through the Nov. 4 election.Article 2: The article was about the IBPYP, it didn't state what the outcome of the presentation was.Article 3: The Democrats have a good chance of obtaining more seats in both the Senate and House.
What is different about this?Article 1: Obama leads in key states and is currently ahead of Mccain by 11 percentage points.Article 2: The decision on whether or not to expand the IBPYP.Article 3: The Democrats are confident they won't lose while the Republicans are figuring out what to do to get seats.
What are the choices?Article 1: Mccain needs to spend a lot of money if he wants to gain more support since he's behind Obama.Article 2: Either to expand IBPYP or not.Article 3: The Republicans need to find a way to get ahead of the Democrats so that they can get more seats.
When?When did or will this happen?Article 1: This has happened through recent events in the presidental election.Article 2: This past weekenedArticle 3: It has been going on and is still continuing
When was this discovered?Article 1: This information was gathered over the recent events of the presidental election.Article 2: Oct. 8Article 3: Oct. 8
Where?Where did or will this happen?Article 1: It is happening nationally as Obama and Mccain are traveling to different states to gain support.Article 2: ManhattanArticle 3: WashingtonWhy?Why did this happen or will it happen?Article 1: It's happening because both candiates are running for president.Article 2: Because some children are facing difficult hardships and need something to help them.Article 3: Because both the Democrats and Republicans want to have seats in the Senate and the House.
How?How did it or will it happen?Article 1: Obama and Mccain attacked each other through debates while trying to gain votes.Article 2: Christina and her colleagues held a presentation to talk about expanding the IBPYP.Article 3: The Democrats and Republicans were fighting, and still are fighting over the seats in both the Senate and House.
how much does it cost?Article 1: The cost is unknown, however both canidates have spent millions of dollars on advertisements.Article 2: Unknown, but it will probably cost a lot of money.Article 3: Unknown, but both sides are likely spending thousands of dollars.
How many people does this affect?Article 1: Everyone in the nation as the people's decision will effect the outcome of the election. It mainly affects Obama and Mccain as they are both attacking each other with information that might hurt their reputation.Article 2: Children for many different schools.Article 3: The outcome can effect the nation but it mainly effects the Republicans and Democrats as they are the ones who are fighting for seats.
How do you feel about this?Article 1: Well i dont really care about elections but they should choose a good presidentArticle 2: I think it would be a good idea. Children, not to mention people in general, need help if something is wrong.Article 3: i really dont care who gets more seets.
Lead:Article 1: Obama is head of Mccain in both spending and polls
Article 2: Christina Shunnarah and her colleagues give a presentation at the Performing the World .
Article 3: The G.O.P faces a tough battle for Congress
Article Type:
Article 1: NewsArticle 2: EditorialArticle 3: Feature

10/20/08

1. In "To be a successful reporter" what are the six qualities a good journalist must possess? Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer for each.
1. A good reporter is able to handle several topics at the same time while talking to a variety of people; a generalist.
2. A good reporter quickly gets work started and finished and won't stop till their done.
3. A good reporter is interested in the details of the past and present.
4. A good reporter is nice and respectful of the people they talk to even if they don't necessarily like them.
5. A good reporter is honest and does what they say they're going to do. They double check work for accuracy as well as looking at both sides of an issue.
6. A good reporter is brave enough to taking challenges such as admiting to mistakes, writing something that may hurt someone, and talking to strangers.
7. A good reporter must have courage to be the ignorant one and able to take criticism. They must also have courage to see "what is there and not what you want to think is there."

2. In "The nature of news" what is Charles A. Dana's definition of what is news? What are the seven main factors that help them determine if an event has consequence?
The seven main factors to determine if the event has a consequence are impact,proximity,timeliness,prominence.novelty,conflict,and audience.

3. In "The art of interviewing—part 1" and "The art of interviewing—part 2" what are the three ways to gather information? What are the 23 helpful ways to get a good interview?
The three ways to gather information for your story are research, observation and interviewing.

4. Summarize, in your own words, "Harvesting the news". Must be 5 sentences.
There are 3 ways to gather information interview,research,and observation. If you use those 3methods the better your stories will be.One will be good but the more u put the more better it will be.

5. Summarize, in your own words, "The human touch". Must be 5 sentences.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

assignment 10/7/08

News-www.sheboyganfalls.k12.wi.us/cyberenglish9/TKAM/article.htm - 10k -

Editorial- www.editorsoftware.com/plain-english/writing-examples/editorial-news-writing-example.html

Feature-

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

warm up 10/7/08

lead- to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort: to lead a group on a cross-country hike.

body- the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.

quotation- something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters.


transition-movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

inverted pyramid-The inverted pyramid principle says you should put your most important point at the top of the article, followed by your next most important point, and so on, in diminishing order of importance.

feature- Any of the distinct parts of the face, as the eyes, nose, or mouth.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

20 Questions

1.What are your goals for this year?
To pass all classes and go to the 10th grade.
2.What is your favorite class this year?
favorite class is biology.
3.Wat do you wanna be when you grow up?
An architect
4.Where were you born?
In Austin,Texas
5.What is your favorite sport you like?
Soccer
6.Do you like high school or middle school better?
High school
7.How many languages do you speak?
2 (spanish and english)
8.What is your favorite music and your favorite song?
All kinds of music and the song is "what you know"
9.What kind of food do you like?
Mexican food
10.What do you do for fun?
Go shopping
11.What do you do when ever your sad?
Cry with some music on
12.Do you think high school is harder and different then middle school?
Not really
13.What are your goals to getting to senior year?
Graduating at the top of the classes
14..What is your favorite t.v show?
Dont like watching t.v
15.Do you like Akins or do you like another school you like better?
wants to go premiere
16.What is your favorite color?
all colors are beautiful
17.Are you dressing up for Halloween if you are what?
Yes, dont know yet.
18.What middle school did you go to?
Paredes middle school
19.Who are your heroes in your life?
Her mom
20.How many brothers and sisters do you have?
2 sisters and four brothers