Subject: Journalism
1. Topic-
Sports Teams And Sports Media
 
2. Content-
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.

 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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.
 
4. Objectives-
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.
 
5. Materials and Aids-
1. Newspaper
2. Sports magazines
3. Television or access to watch telecast.
4. Pencils
5. Pens
6. Tape recorder (optional)
7. notebook
8. Highlighters
 
6. Procedures/Methods-

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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?
 
7. Evaluation-
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
 
8. Teacher Reflection-
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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