HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS (AS OF 5/2/08)

TONIGHT'S ASSIGNMENTS*

*NOTE: The following assignments should be completed prior to the next class meeting or by the posted due date. Please read all standards and directions when completing.

I. Obtain a recent news article. This article must be recent (i.e. no older than 3 days). It must be clipped and attached to a page in your CE journal...PLEASE DO THIS BEFORE CLASS; UNCLIPPED ARTICLES WILL RECEIVE -2 PENALTY.

Assignment Specs:

1. ARTICLE TYPE: GENERAL INTEREST NEWS
2. ARTICLE NEWS ELEMENT: (SEE NOTES FROM BOARD)
3. Recent article ONLY!!! (Date range: 5/3 to 5/5)
4. Source and Date of Publishing MUST be written on the page
5. DUE NEXT CLASS MEETING

II. Organize your notebook per the Notebook Structure Chart.

III. Read and Outline Chapter 11 (see textbook). Here are the vocabulary terms:

1. hard news
2. feature story
3. soft news
4. “evergreen”
5. news-feature
6. news peg
7. personality profile
8. thirty (-30-)

*NOTE: Follow the pre-discussed/introduced format to avoid any point loss.

IV. Go to the UNESCO website archive dedicated to journalists who were assassinated in the exercise of their profession. According to the site the archive 'remembers their contribution to freedom of expression, democracy and peace.'

Your assignment is to find a journalist to share with the class on Monday. You must write a one page typed personal response based on your selected person's life, work, and death. You must also discuss his or her contribution to their profession and the community in which they served.

Assignment Specs:

1. Assignment must be typed...no exceptions
2. Double space your textcopy
3. Times New Roman font, 12 point font
4. Must conform to the studied and discussed AP style rules
5. Response commentary must be based on the person's life, work, and death
6. Response commentary must include examples from your research material
7. DO NOT INCLUDE A HEADLINE
8. Must include this information in the upper right hand corner:

SLUG (all caps)
Byline
Copy #

THE LIFE, WORK, AND DEATH OF (NAME OF YOUR SUBJECT)
By Larry Knight
Copy# 1

9. Must include a -30- at the end of the review
10. Must be completed before returning to class...DUE 5/5/08
11. POINT VALUE: 25 POINTS
12. Writing must be AT LEAST ONE FULL PAGE, including no LESS than 250-350 words in the body.
13. You may want to consider your audience; it may be a group of teens or adults that you are trying to reach.
14. You also may want to think about the overall purpose of your piece. Are you seeking to convince, indoctrinate, inform, etc.?
15. Use examples from the research to support your response.
16. Your response MUST use a format that uses rhetorical devices and modes of developments (i.e. examples, rhetorical questions, description, cause and effect, etc.).
17. Your writing should be publishable…you are not writing down random thoughts and ideas…they MUST be organized, easy to understand, logical, relevant to some degree, timely, etc.
18. Margins should be 0.5” all around (i.e. Top, Bottom, Left, and Right). (-5)
19. DO NOT USE PERSONAL PRONOUN REFERENCES (I (-2), you (-2), us (-2), we (-2), my (-2), me (-2), our (-2))
20. Omit phrases like I think, in my opinion, it seems to me, or for one since a subjective response is already recognized as your opinion.
21. STIFF PENALTIES FOR SIMPLE GRAMMAR MISTAKES…PLEASE PROOFREAD YOUR WORK (-5 for sentence structure errors, -3 for grammatical errors, and -2 for spelling errors)
22. PROOFREAD YOUR PAPER CAREFULLY AND CORRECT YOUR ERRORS!!!!!!! I AM NOT YOUR PROOFREADER!!!!

V. Visit http://www.newseum.org/ or http://www.ipl.org/ and other resource sites to obtain information on current events. REVIEW FOR CEQ#15

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DAILY ASSIGNMENTS*

*NOTE: These are assignments that you should be doing whether we have homework or not. There is a level of expectation that requires you as the student to claim some responsibility for your academic career.

I. Review Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 topics/concepts. Read the outline, add supplemental notes, create study note cards. LEARN THE MATERIAL...DON'T MEMORIZE IT.*

*NOTE: Please review your chapter notes periodically. We are never 'done' with the chapter topics/concepts.

II. Study chapter vocabulary. In addition, students should prepare to work on additional in-class vocabulary assignments by reviewing words nightly. For test/quiz dates see calendar in class or upcoming dates post. To prepare for the in-class study and tests/quizzes, students are encouraged to create 3x5 study cards. STANDARD [JV1]

III. Bring Materials/Supplies to class; this includes textbooks, paper, pens, notebooks, writing journals, etc. (NO EXCEPTIONS)

IV. You should conduct a nightly/daily review of the course orientation notes. You will be expected to have adequate mastery and knowledge of all course policies and procedures.

V. You should conduct a nightly/daily review of the course standards. You will be expected to have adequate mastery and knowledge of all course standards.

VI. READ/WATCH THE NEWS!!! Immerse yourself in the power of current events....remember, today's current event is tomorrow's history. (~Mr. K 1/26/07)