April 2nd, 2014

4/2/14

In Class:
Warm-up--  Write a status update for yourself for each of the following times this week:
Monday morning, Monday at lunch, Monday evening, Tuesday morning, Tuesday at lunch, Tuesday evening, and right now.

Using Colorado Newspapers in Education, each student found three articles that interested her; then, she copied down the first two sentences from those articles. In journalism, these sentences are called the lede.
lede: a concise, engaging introductory sentence (or two) to ‘hook’ the reader.
      - give the readers the main point 
      - give the readers a reason to keep reading
…in as few words possible. (Typically, 35 words maximum is a good rule-of-thumb.)
This connects to microblogging because the author needs to engage the reader as quickly and meaningfully as possible.
What goes in a lede? Who, what, when, where, why, and how:
    Ex.: While painting his house yesterday, a Boulder man was injured when he fell off an old, rickety ladder that shattered beneath him.
Who: a man
What: was injured
When: yesterday
Where: his house in Boulder
Why: because the ladder was old and rickety
How: the ladder shattered beneath him.

Independently, each student identified (as best she could) the 5 Ws and H of each lede she copied earlier.

For the remainder of class, students worked independently on:
  * “Online News is Still News” & guided notes
  * Microblogging submissions.

Exit ticket: Define 'journalism.'

Homework:
Finish "Online News is Still News" Guided Notes.
Write 3+ tweets for the mircroblogging assignment.