TRUE OR FALSE
The outline of our newspaper articles (most of them) has 8 elements.
TRUE: name of newspaper, section, headline, drophead, lead, supporting details, researched fact, conclusion.
What does the section of the newspaper article make reference to?
The category the article belongs to, example: sports, international news, health, etc.
Avoid it when writing a headline and drophead:
Repeating words between them, headline longer than drophead.
In order to write an effective lead, this must include all the "wh" words, which are:
who, what, when, where, why, how.
Elaborate a question about the course and choose the team that will answer it.
Team question
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What is the dateline?
The place where the story originates and the date when it is published.
Avoid this when researching for your fact:
use wikipedia, missing quoting it correctly by writing the source.
Which of the "wh" words will not be described in detail on the supporting detail paragraphs?
When and where, since it will be stated once on the lead and there is no need to be more descriptive, unless it is important for the story.
Draw on the board something related to the newspaper article and choose the team to guess what is it about.
Team pictionary
Headline sums up what the article is about. It is usually longer than the drophead.
FALSE: It is shorter than the drophead.
How many sentence should a paragraph in a newspaper article have in order to be descriptive enough?
4-5 sentences at least, but it can have more.
Avoid this when writing the conclusion.
State new information to the story.
Describe the kind of information that the following provide: what, why, how.
what: explain what happened, what is the issue, problem, or conflict?
why: provide context to describe why did the situation/news happen.
how: provide details to describe how did it happen.
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Drophead supports article's information.
FALSE: Drophead provides additional information to the headline (it supports the headline).
What is the picture caption?
Describes what the image is trying to portray.
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Go over the board and describe the elements of the inverted pyramid of newspaper articles.
HINT: draw a triangle beginning with the base, divide it in three parts; each belongs to the different parts of the article.
TRUE OR FALSE: Pictures do not need picture captions.
All teams do the following: write a newspaper article about any topic related to vacation, three paragraphs (lead, supporting details, conclusion). THE FIRST TEAM THAT FINISHES EARNS THE POINTS.
TRUE.
Why do we use a researched fact in our newspaper articles?
In order to give more support to the information from a trustworthy source online, that it is not our own research or opinion.
Avoid changing this element of the newspaper article, we all use the same.
Name of the newspaper: The Lynx
Important details to consider when writing supporting details.
Supporting details paragraphs develop ideas stated in the lead, which need to be taken into detail while describing more in the supporting detail paragraphs.
BONUS ROUND
FALSE: every picture in a newspaper article will have a brief caption.