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1. Topic-
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Sports Teams And Sports Media |
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2. Content-
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Sports Reporter- Person who covers sports and or sporting events.
Anecdote- A short story about an incident or situation that shows
rather than tells. It may be as simple as an explanation or example
or as involved as the retelling of an incident complete with a sense
of plot and dialogue.
Attribution- The act of providing a reference to a source; citing
the source.
copy- Typewritten or printed material.
direct quotation- The exact words that a news source uses in giving
information. Quotations marks are always used to set off a direct
quotation.
feature story- A story that goes further than straight news coverage,
and usually focuses on the human interest elements of a situation
or event. The feature story may be written to inform or entertain,
and it can be on a multitude of topics from the trivial (students
favorite singing groups) to the serious (teenage depression).
inverted pyramid- Style of news reporting in which the most important
information is gives first.
Journalistic style- Set of rules covering newspaper writing style,
including rules pertaining to capitalization, spelling, abbreviations,
titles, grammar and punctuation.
lead- First paragraph of a story, usually telling the 5 Ws (who, what,
when, where and why) and H (how).
mass media- Any of various methods of transmitting news to a large
number of people (e.g. radio, TV, newspaper).
news services- News gathering agencies such as Associated Press (AP),
United Press International (UPI), and Canadian Press (CP). They gather
and distribute news to subscribing newspapers.
news story- An objective article written about an event or situation.
press release- A hand-out giving information about a public event
reporter- a person hired to rush to the scene and phone back information
as soon as possible or to key the report into a word processing terminal
at the newspaper office
spot news- News obtained first-hand. Fresh news.
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1.To get the students to understand the different types of articles
not only locally but nationally.
2. See how different writers distribute their information to different
audiences whether it be online, newspaper or television.
3.See how the information is organized in each article, or telecast. |
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4. Objectives-
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1.We want them to really focus on the media or reports and what
it takes to be reporter.
2.the quality of news they find and watch is what we want their focus
to be on.
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5. Materials and Aids-
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1. Newspaper
2. Sports magazines
3. Television or access to watch telecast.
4. Pencils
5. Pens
6. Tape recorder (optional)
7. notebook
8. Highlighters
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1.In activity one students were assigned a team to report on in
this activity they will be assigned a different team to report on
2.See the differences between a team that is doing well and one that
is not doing well.
3. Students will see if the outputs are positive or negative and make
logs in their journals
4.Really focus on the morale of the writers in markets where the teams
are good and where they have fan support as to where the teams are
not doing well and the negative vibes or negative articles or newscasts. |
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B. Development-
1. Students will explore articles of local and national news
2. See the way national news compares to your local news about the
same story.
3. Was the response of different teams and writers different from
what the students expected. |
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C. Practice-
1. The students will have an open discussion in class about their
new team.
2. Instead of evaluating technique they will analyze whether they
found it difficult to understand stories about a team they didn't
understand.
3. What where the different writing styles. |
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D. Independent Practice-
1. students will do a large part of this lesson on their own, analyzing
articles as well as news telecasts.
2. They were assigned their own team but in this activity they were
given a team one they were unfamiliar with and asked to analyze the
articles and way of writing.
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F. Checking for understanding-
1. the open discussion in class about their new team.
2. Their journals will be reviewed to see what they took from all
of their readings and watching of the newscasts
3. We really want to see what they took from the writers, instead
of looking at techniques look at the different views authors have. |
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G. Closure-
1. Was this a good lesson?
2. What did the students learn?
3. Would this be a good lesson to use in the future? |
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7. Evaluation-
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1. Did the students display a greater knowledge of news articles
and techniques used in writing after this lesson than before?
2. What were the main aspects the students were able to attain from
the writers, the vibes, and overall way the writers put their stories
out there |
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8. Teacher Reflection-
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This lesson was designed to get the students to think outside of
the box and see that there is more than one way to write an article.
That just because its the same story, it doesn't mean you have to
write one way and that everyone doesn't have the same opinion on the
same subjects. This lesson is a good way to start off the semester
and see where the students are, and get their feet wet in the many
different ways news gets across. |
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