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__Friday, Aug 21__
Learn about the New Adventure Awaiting Staff Members in //**The Maroon Tribune.**//


 * All assignments and due dates that appear in green are worth points in the grade book. **
 * 1) **//Participate in team building activities by creating a puzzle piece.//**
 * 2) **//[|Which Big Bang Character are you?] [|What About The Hunger Games?] [|Star Wars Fans?]//**
 * 3) **//Look at previous issues of The Maroon Tribune.//**
 * 4) **//Look at the new website//** **//[|BHS Maroon Tribune]//**
 * 5) **//Look at a possibility for the website and B-Town's MTV (Maroon Tribune Video) [|High School News Program Example]//**


 * Essential Question: What is journalism and what is a journalist?**
 * **High school journalists wield power, which must be balanced with responsibility and ethics. High school journalism reflects the real experience of professional journalists and therefore comes with the same responsibilities, to be fair, accurate, unbiased and ethical.**
 * **Journalists identity purpose and audience for selecting article types.**
 * **Journalists capture readers' attention through topic, lead, design, headlines and art.**
 * **Journalists internalize the writing process, from pre-writing to publication.**
 * **Journalists use technology to gather and present information.**
 * **Journalists improve by setting goals and working toward them, aided by the creation of a portfolio.**
 * **Journalists produce and distribute a quality product.**

__Friday, August 22__
Collect Signed Syllabus

**Opener:** **//Take the Myers Briggs Test and see which characters you would be... How does this affect your effectively working as a staff member on The Maroon Tribune?//**

 * //[|Myers-Briggs Test...Simpson Style! :)]//**
 * //Look at these other comparisons...//**
 * //[|Which Big Bang Character are you?] [|What About The Hunger Games?] [|Star Wars Fans?]//**


 * //If Kat is here check out t-shirt designs.//**

**Tradition ---**

 * Essential Question: Where do I fit in to the journalism tradition? Students will learn about the history of journalism through research of longstanding cases and learn the impact those decisions have had on their publication **
 * **Examine historic court cases**
 * **Learn about notable journalists and their contribution to the profession**
 * **Practice Research Skills**
 * **Extract Important Information**
 * **Record the new learning on the sheet provided**


 * [|10 Supreme Court Cases Every Teen Should Know]**
 * [|Facts about the Haze]**** [|lwood Case] **
 * [|Facts and Summary for Tinker vs. Des Moines]**
 * Chapter 23: Scholastic Journalism (Tenth Edition)**




 * In groups of three discuss the following cases and whether or not you agree with the court decisions. How does this affect us as a staff?**



**With Rights Come Responsibilities ---**

 * Essential Question: What are the responsibilities of a journalist? Students will examine the professional code of conduct for professional journalists as well as various publications looking for the elements of ethics, including accuracy, objectivity, good taste, and attribution, right of reply. Students will understand the definition of libel and how to avoid libelous writing.**
 * [|Society for Professional Journalists Code of Ethics]**
 * **Define, identify, and analyze the elements of ethics in newspaper publications.**
 * **Internalize and Follow the Code of Conduct**
 * **Role play and discuss the pros and cons of running a controversial story**
 * **Students discuss and create a policy for dealing with anonymous sources**


 * === Reflect on their individual rights and responsibility as a member of The Maroon Tribune Staff (Turn in that reflection) ===

**Extra---Extra---**

 * Essential Question: How does a newspaper inform? Students will identify the various parts of a newspaper using professional vocabulary. Students will examine various audiences and roles of a journalist. They will learn how their publication can meet those needs. Students will differentiate writing styles to inform, persuade or entertain audiences.**
 * **Purpose**
 * **Inverted Pyramid**
 * **Leads**
 * **Entertainment, Sports, Editorial and Feature Articles**

Homework--Create an article for The Maroon Tribune using the grading template as a guide (250 words due Wednesday)




**Layout Terms**

 * [|Page Layout Terms]**

**[|Edward R. Morrow Biography]**

 * "To be persuasive we must**** be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful." -- Edward R. Murrow **


 * [|Good Interview Questions]**

[|30 Tips on How to Interview Like a Journalist] === Essential Question: How do you develop and eye and ear for news? Students will learn and apply the skills of interviewing and then add an interview to their story created for last class. (DUE FRIDAY September 5) ===

**Design is the thing to catch the reader's interest!**

 * Essential Question: How do we attract the attention of our audience and keep it in order to inform and entertain them.**
 * **Learn about the design process**
 * **Modular Layout**
 * **Consult various models as examples**
 * **Learn the basics of In-Design and Photo-Shop in the Creation of a page.**
 * [[file:In-Design Practice Sheet.indd]]

Homework: Create and print a page from the template provided. (DUE Tuesday SEPTEMBER 2)




Advertising --- We don't print if we don't sell!






CONTACT ONE ADVERTISER AND HAVE THEM SIGN THE SHEET BY THURSDAY
Get into your groups and create a calendar for the dates up until the first printing, web site unveiling and news program first viewing SEPT 29 Turn in calendars in order to make copies

DUE: ad contact signatures
Practice Ad Sale with Brick Oven Pizza Owner.

Learn how to save to the network in your sections.

Discuss calendars: Articles/Photos Assigned Advertisers Begin to Build

Team Builder Game (Circle within a circle questions)


 * Staff Stories Due Friday **
 * (Initial Stories Also Due If Not Submitted Prior to This) **

__Friday, Sept. 5__
Photographers: practice taking pictures of events next week (football, soccer, softball, school etc.)

Ready...Set...GO!

 * Section Assignments
 * Story Lists, Page Dummies,
 * Storyboard for news program
 * Ads Sold...

__Monday, Sept. 8__
Ad Sales Practice > **// Colorado Mesa University //** > **// Admissions Counselor //** > **// 303.503.9978 //** > **// Ltjackso@coloradomesa.edu //** 970-248-1412  mmanshei@coloradomesa.edu
 * Cliff Montoya of Brick Oven
 * **// Luke Jackson //**
 * (Colorado Mesa Follow Up) - Director of Marketing & Publication, Mike Mansheim





__Tuesday, Sept. 9__

 * All Rough Drafts Articles/Profiles Due Friday **
 * Possible Ad Sale Confirmation Signature Due Friday **

Google Docs Save/Share Process -
 * Film Trial Run
 * Newspaper Template Construction
 * Website Activity Sponsor Set-up

=__ Wednesday, Sept 10 __=

=__ Friday, Sept 12 __=
 * All Rough Drafts Articles/Profiles Due Friday **
 * Possible Ad Sale Confirmation Signature Due Friday **


 * Google Docs Lesson by Kat Allen**
 * All rough drafts submitted in some format by Monday**

__** Monday, Sept 15 **__

 * We are $420 short of our monthly advertising goal of $500. Today when not doing something, staff should made advertising make advertising contact with a prospective advertiser, email them the contract and arrange to meet this week.**


 * Rough Draft Check in Google Drive (Allen and Skoric edit and send back)**

[|NY Times Formats for Articles] [|6 Questions that need answered in EVERY ARTICLE]
 * Read NY Times Article Format Sheet and Revise your essay to include one of the following formats.**
 * Submit as revised to Google Drive by Tuesday **


 * Begin Layout with Templates**
 * (In Students-Newspaper-Templates)**


 * All pictures assigned for this week?**


 * Filming should be complete by next Monday (Editing done by Wednesday)**


 * Website Updated and Ready to go by Monday (Last minute changes until Wednesday)**


 * Shirt Dollars/ J-Day Dollars and Permission Slip Due by Friday**

__**Tuesday, Sept 16**__

 * Review of Google Drive with Kat**
 * Picture Assignments with Photography**
 * Website add Homecoming Page and For Fans of Fiction Page**

__**Wednesday, Sept 17**__
__**Hi guys...See below for your name and the 'Jobs" that need to be done! Call if you need me :)**__ __**If I missed something that you know has to be done, then you need to take the initiative and do it! :)**__ > Chris Klein > Commercial Printing > Prairie Mountain Publishing > Direct: 303.834.3934 > Cell: 303.332.4312 > 801 N. 2nd St. Berthoud CO 80513 >  kleinc@prairiemountainpublishing.com   >
 * Students in the Newscast should complete the filming ** . Ken ** have a sound check with music to be sure it works (Have Steve let students into the conference room. ** (KT, Emma, Lucas, and Ken) **
 * ** All articles need to be uploaded to Google Drive (for a grade) **
 * ** Check for revisions if it was submitted **
 * ** Kat and Bethan ** (Work individually with students on their stories. Leave a list in Google Drive of students that had conferences and their article. see Monday Sept 14 for guidelines)
 * ** Rachel and Lauren ** talk to photographers and make sure necessary photos are being taken. - upload photos from ** Anna and Bethan ** to Google Drive
 * ** Taite and Chrissy ** make sure that you have all you need as far as content for the website. (Check with Mrs. Santos and see if we can use the proposal for our Homecoming page) I can send you Inanimate Object Stories from Creative Writing. ** ---Chrissy, ** see if you can find a way for students to submit things to us and a way to make that known on the site-- Maybe change the poll question. Halloween might be too far away.
 * ** Steele and Chrissy ** make sure all adds are built. ** (check with Kat about Brick Oven Ad) ** Pick up inserts from ** Mrs. Lutz and ** put them in ** the grey journalism cabinet. **
 * **Sage Bowman** (contact Lehman Publishing here in Berthoud)
 * 1) ** Talk to Chris Klein. **
 * 2) ** Do a price check for the first issue **
 * 3) ** Find out for sure when we need the pages to him for printing and if it is possible for us to watch them come off the presses **
 * **Shayla and Sage** (Look on the internet and try to find newspaper stands where we could put the in the community with our extras) Print what you find and send it to us on Google Drive
 * **Shayla,** the list of shirt sizes is nowhere to be found. Please go around and find out if kids have paid and what size of shirt they want. Then put the list in the grey cabinet.
 * **Hayley, Kane and Anna check with Chrissy** to see which clubs have gotten back to us. For those that haven't find out when their club meets and a student we can contact for more information.
 * **Haley, Emma, Larissa, Nick, Sierra, Kane, Shayla** (Revise your articles together using the two articles on Monday, Sept 14. Haley you can show them how to do this...just go over what we did together yesterday :)
 * When not working everyone should call a potential advertiser... (Kat make a list of the contact, the staff member, and whether we need to send them ad paperwork)

__FRIDAY, Sept 19__
__No School for Students__

__Monday, Sept 22__
__Acuity Testing Schedule for Freshman and Sophomores__ __Juniors take Practice ACR__ __Seniors - Morning Off__ __Modified Schedule Periods 1,3,5,7__

Finish Revisions Film Edits Website Updating

__Wednesday, Sept 24__
Finish Revisions Film Edits Website Updating

__Friday, Sept 26__
Extension due to Internet Cable Break New Due Date is Wednesday, O__ct 1__ __WE GO LIVE OCT 2__

__Monday, Oct 6__
__Papers passed out second hour (Need help stuffing inserts)__

__See Story List and Print Deadlines Below__

Ads must be sold by Friday

__Monday, October 27__
Bring Two Bags of Candy on Tuesday for the Trick or Treat Street on Wednesday night.

Gripes and Grins for October Where do we go from here...

Let's Begin at the Beginning

The Lead: The first paragraph or several sentences of a news story. [|ASNE Award Winning Leads]

Types of Leads: Summary, Annecdote (Story, Question or Quote)

Look at the five articles in the newspapers in your table. For each one write down the headline and the 5W and an H as you find them For each write down the type of lead it is COLLECT

Answer the following questions. 1. What is the one place you have always wanted to go and why? 2. What scares you? 3. What is something you are proud of? 4. Ten years from now where do you see yourself? 5. Would you rather live in a world where there were no problems or live in a world where you rule? 6. Would you rather go back in time and meet your ancestors or go forward in time an meet your great grandchildren? 7. What is the best thing about school? What is the worst thing? 8. What is a sport or activity that you participate in and why do you like it? 9. What are three things you would want people to know about you? 10. What do you hope learn from taking the Journalism class?

Now switch papers and create two leads for an article about this person. Create a summary lead and an anecdotal lead. DUE TUESDAY

Have you written your student profile
Had it edited twice and put into the correct folder? Had it edited twice and put into the correct folder? Had it edited twice and put into the correct folder?
 * Have you written your club story **
 * Have you written your opinion piece **

If so...
 * Find ten journalism photos that you like.**
 * Save them into the Photography Google Drive Folder and include an explanation of the photo (Cutline)**

__**Tuesday, November 5**__

 * Learn More About Photojournalism and ways it is used in The Maroon Tribune**
 * Use the sheet provided as a guideline for photographs used in our publications.**

Try Your Hand at Editing the Photos on a Page Open the page provided and save it with your name and the word photos in the shared drive in the photography file (photo practice)



__Friday, December 12__
Opening question... Where to you draw the line in high school journalism? __**What is okay to print and what is not?**__


 * Watch the following clip: [|Nightcrawler trailer]**
 * As a journalist what is the difference between reporting on the news and creating the news?**


 * Read the following story...[|Rolling Stone - Rape on Campus]**
 * What is the responsibility of a journalist?**


 * Watch the following clip from ABC news: [|ABC News: New Questions Raised About Rolling Story]**


 * Complete the following 'quiz' Then discuss the answers. [|Hypothetical Qustions About Journalism]**


 * Ticket Out the Door...What is the responsibility of a journalist for The Maroon Tribune?**

__**Monday, December 15**__

 * Gripes and Grins for December Issue**
 * What Worked and What Didn't - Next Steps**


 * Next Steps:**
 * 1. Organization: Specific list of all responsibilities: Layout, Writing and Photography (Posted and Easily Accessible)**
 * 2. Communication: Between Staff Members: CONSTRUCTIVE, NOT CRITICAL**
 * 3. Edit grammar and spelling ONLY, If Content is an issue contact the author of the article.**
 * 3. Be Ready at Least a Week in Advance**

__**Study Guide for Final:**__

__Tuesday, December 16__
Juniors...Check out this journalism conference in Washington, DC [|Journalism Conference in DC June 20-25]

=__Jan 6__= __** Semester Two Begins **__

__**Semester One Ads Due**__

Team Builder - Draw a Mountain


 * See Calendar for Feb Issue**




 * Responsibilities List (blank)**

__Jan 7__

 * Complete Story List and Responsibility List**
 * Dance?**
 * Valentine's Day?**