Announcement: All students in Mr. Nisonoff's 3rd Period Publications Class will report to the auditorium tomorrow for a Town Hall Meeting.
Your first project is due Friday September 24th. All articles are due on September 24th by the start of class and must be submitted to me as a Google document. All articles should be typed and double-spaced. As discussed in class this is an article about your personal experiences with free speech or your how you feel your free speech was denied to you at WJPS. Remember this is a newspaper article so your writing must be objective and your article must be supported by facts and credible research. We will break down the writing of the article into steps which shall be discussed and worked on in class.
The first step is to identify the 5W's and H (who, what, when, where, why and how) of your article. This is due Thursday, September 16th, at the beginning of class and should be e-mailed to me as a Google document. The information required is as follows:
1. Who: who are the main players or people involved in this incident? Think carefully about all the people who play a role in your article. You need to include lead and supporting people.
2. What: What happened? What took place? Be precise and careful when describing the incident. Do so chronologically (that means from the beginning to the end of the incident), and try not to leave out any details. At this stage we want to get all our information written down and then decide during the drafting and editing stages what stays and what is deleted from the final draft.
3. When: when did this incident take place. Be very specific. Strive to remember the exact date, time and place that all of this occurred.
4. Where: again, be specific. Where did this happen, what classroom, what floor, what part of the classroom (front, back, right or left side). Details are what bring an article to life and hold the reader's attention.
5. Why: why did this event occur? What prompted it and what happened in class and perhaps outside of class to make this event take place the way it did. This part of the article will require the most research and we will discuss this in great detail later in class. For now try to recall what you and the other people were doing to create the backdrop for this article.
6. How: how did this event happen? How did all the pieces come together to create the incident about which you are writing?
Each section should be a short paragraph in length (4-6 sentences). The 5W's and H will be the foundation of your article and what you will refer back to as you are composing your first and final drafts. I have included a pdf link that should help you to further organize your thoughts and give you some idea about how your final drafts should look. We will discuss this further in class, but if you have any questions please e-mail me at robert.nisonoff@wjps.org.
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