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English 8: The Open Road Mr. Cabat September 10, 2014

Gregorian Chant: Salve Regina Composer and Date Unknown. English 8: The Open Road Mr. Cabat September 10, 2014. Aim: “ It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about .” –Tom Brokaw Investigative Journalism. Learning from the Pros.

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English 8: The Open Road Mr. Cabat September 10, 2014

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  1. Gregorian Chant: Salve Regina Composer and Date Unknown English 8: The Open RoadMr. CabatSeptember 10, 2014 Aim: “It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.” –Tom Brokaw Investigative Journalism

  2. Learning from the Pros • First, please sit with your writing partners today. • Share details and your observations about the article from last night’s HW that you got from www.nytimesineducation.com . What tips did you pick up from professional journalists that you might fold into your own work?

  3. America Runs on Dunkin??? • Using the tools that we have picked up about journalism, let’s create an opening paragraph for a newscast about the arrival of the new Dunkin Donuts.

  4. Partner Share Now, look over the newscasts you’ve already written. Choose the one you like the best, and read it aloud to your partner. As a listener, you have three jobs: A. Look for the hook! B. Make sure the 5 W’s are there early on. C. Make sure your partner is being objective and efficient in his/her writing (think bacon).

  5. What Makes a Great Reporter? • The ability to find drama in everyday moments • A sharp eye for accurately observing detail • OBJECTIVITY! • Direct and factual tone. • “Bacon” language • Use third person instead of first. No “I”! • And a bit of fearlessness, which is one of our class goals! X

  6. Descriptive Language • As a writer, you want to use words that create a picture in your reader’s mind. Let’s come up with some more descriptive ways of conveying the following ideas: Tall Sad Beautiful Wet Red Loud Let’s do a class share of a couple of examples where you feel that you’ve done this in your newscasts.

  7. Homework • I will be collecting your writer’s notebooks a few a day for the next couple of days. Please be sure that you have the workings and notes for at least two or three newscasts, and the HW writing I asked you to do on “Lost Keys” and the article from www.nytimesineducation.com CABAT ENGLISH 8

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