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Applied Journalism Calendar last updated on 12/11/03

Journalism meets 1st hour Semester One

Semester One Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 1

Days in darker shade are days we don't meet or there is no school.

Due dates are in red.

8/25

Seating chart
Syllabus & web site
Get Terms

Homework: bring newspapers, scissors & glue stick

8/26

Go over list of terms. Work on scrapbook: due on or before Friday 1/24.

8/27 All 8 periods

Work on scrapbook.

 

8/28

Get books; read chapter one; do questions for chapter one; due 9/2.

8/29

Terms scrapbooks are due.

 

Week 2

Bring newspapers to class daily if possible.

News Online

9/1

Labor Day; no school

9/2

Terms quiz

Questions for chapter one are due.

Get News Friday Assignment: Fill out report and be ready for Friday 9/12.

Assign chapter 2 and questions for 9/4.

9/3 odd

Questions activity

 

 

9/4

Chapter 2 questions are due. Develop a beat system.

9/5

Assign chapter 3 and questions for 9/9.

Week 3

5 news determinants:

  • timeliness
  • consequence
  • proximity
  • prominence
  • human interest (oddity, emotion, conflict)
9/8

"5 news determinants"
Activity: judging news value

9/9

Chapter 3 questions are due.

Review types of leads. Lead writing practice #1 (partner).

9/10 even 9/11

Assign chapter 4 and questions for 9/15.

Lead writing practice #2 (partner).

9/12

News Friday #1

Beat report #1 due

Week 4

9/15

Ch. 4 questions due.

Inverted Pyramid and review news style.

Get study guide for test (9/22).

9/16

Assign. Ch. 12 & 13, due 9/18.

Get reporter's notes #1 and work with partner to write a news story.

9/17 odd

Work on story; must be typed, double spaced by Thurs. 9/18.

9/18

Ch. 12 & 13 due.

Story from notes #1 due, typed.

Copy editing

9/19

News Friday #2

Beat report #2 due

 

Week 5

9/22

Test

 

 

9/23

Get reporter's notes #2. Write news story (individual), due 9/29), use rubric for guide.

9/24 even 9/25

Work day.

midquarter

9/26

News Friday #3

Beat report #3 due

 

Week 6 9/29

News story from notes #2 due.

Assign ch. 5 for 10/1.

9/30

Assign: Writing a life, more than an obituary (partner), due 10/6.

10/1 odd

Newsies

 

10/2

Newsies

10/3

Newsies

Homecoming

News Friday #4

Week 7e smoke in air, or ripples on a stream." Virgil to Dante, Canto XXIV 10/6

Obituary due

10/7

Assign ch. 6, due 10/9

10/8 even

 

 

10/9

Ch. 6 due.

Assign ch. 7, due 10/13

10/10

News Friday #5

Week 8

10/13

Ch. 7 due.

 

10/14

Activity: analyzing two sport stories (partner).

10/15 odd

finish sports analysis activity

Assign chapter 8 questions; due Monday

10/16

Analyzing editorials; Using the SPECS system. Due at end of hour

10/17

News Friday #6

Week 9 10/20

Ch. 8 due; get Ch. 9 questions (due 10/23).

10/21

Activity with ch. 14 and headlines (partner), due at end of hour.

NEWSPA

10/22 even

 

 

10/23

Ch. 9 questions due; Assign Famous Journalist project (partner).

In Lab

10/24

In Lab

News Friday #7 (hand in).

Week 10 10/27

In Lab

Group Photo Day

10/28

In Lab

10/29 odd

In Lab

Quarter One ends

10/30

No School

10/31

No School

Week 11 11/3

Famous journalist presentations

11/4

Famous journalist presentations

11/5 even

 

 

11/6

Famous journalist presentations

11/7

Famous journalist presentations

News Friday #8

Week 12 11/10

Test on ch. 5-9 & 14.

11/11

 

Assign: ch. 22; due 11/13

11/12 odd

Video: Joseph Pulitzer Biography

Assign 1st Amendment: recite on or before 12/12

 

11/13

Ch. 22 due today.

Assign ch. 23, due 11/17

11/14

Pulitzer assignment due today.

News Friday #9

Week 13 11/17

Ch. 23 due

Hazelwood play

11/18

Protected and Unprotected speech.

Introduce: The Press and the World project

11/19 even

 

 

11/20

In Lab

11/21

No School

Week 14 11/24

In Lab

11/25

In Lab

11/26 odd

In Lab

 

11/27

No School

11/28

No School

Week 15 12/1

Dying to Tell the Story

12/2

Dying to Tell the Story

12/3 even

 

 

12/4

Work Day

 

12/5

midquarter

News Friday #10

Week 16 12/8

Press and the World presentations begin

12/9

Press and the World presentations

12/10 odd

Press and the World presentations

 

12/11

Press and the World presentations

12/12

Press and the World presentations

Last day to recite the 1st Amendment

Week 17 12/15

All the President's Men

12/16

All the President's Men

12/17 even

 

 

12/18

All the President's Men

12/19

All the President's Men assignment due today.

Week 18 12/22

Introduce magazine project. Start answering questions and conceptualizing ideas.

12/23

Get study guide for semester exam.

Work on magazine project.

12/24

No School

 

 

12/25

No School

12/26

No School

  1/5

No School

1/6

No School

1/7

No School

 

1/8

Work on magazine project.

In Cad Lab

1/9

Work on magazine project.

In lab

Week 19 1/12

Work on magazine project.

In lab

1/13

Work on magazine project.

In lab

1/14 all 8 classes

Work on magazine project.

In lab

1/15

Present magazine idea to publisher.

1/16

Present magazine idea to publisher.

Week 20
1/19

Present magazine idea to publisher.

1/20

Semester Exams

1/21

Semester Exams

1/22

Semester Exams

1/23

No School

 

 

 

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