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Newspaper Article

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Vol XCIII, No. 311

Friday, March 7, 2014

Did we get them all?

In your groups mindmap the features of a newspaper article.

Use the newspaper on your desks to help you.

Direct Speech

Headline

This is where you quote exactly what the person says

Columns

Caption

Subheading

Starter

1. Read through this student's piece of work. Highlight all the bits that you think are good.

2. Read the target I set you for your newspaper article. Re-write the target IN YOUR OWN words. Then write down how you are going to meet it.

E.g I am going to meet my target by...

Image

Title

Hermia said, 'I don't want to marry Demetrius'.

Opening paragraph

HEADLINES

Success criteria

You need to use quotations in your newspaper article...

Level 6

I use engaging vocabulary to draw in the reader.

I am able to provide a thoughtful and interesting point of view.

I use presentational features of a text clearly.

Try to think of headlines to make readers want to read these stories:

High exam results at your school.

A huge storm over your town.

A footballer’s shorts fall down during an important game.

Try to use a range of techniques- such as alliteration, puns, full and half-rhyme.

Must grab the readers attention so they use dramatic or emotional words, such as:

Crisis Drama Clash Fury Battle Row

● Alliteration – ‘Pick up a Penguin’

● Puns – ‘Kentucky Freed Chicken’ (Jokes)

● Rhymes/half rhymes – ‘Beanz Meanz Heinz’

Level 5

I am able to explain the nature of events clearly.

I can apply some presentational features to my article.

In today’s task, each table will work as a team to produce an edition of The Athens Chronicle. You must each produce one article for the newspaper. You must decide as a team what the articles will be about. All of the articles must be about the recent events in the play.

Below are some examples you may want to use:

Peer Assessment

Opening Paragraphs

A gossip column about the lovers

A gossip column about Bottom and Titania

Agony Aunt Page

Bottom’s guide to acting

Main story: The Royal Wedding

Main story: Titania and Oberon falling out

Main story: Egeus’s complaint to Theseus and Hermia's refusal to marry Demetrius

Main story: the lovers' disappearance

Look at your partner's work.

Have they used all the correct features of a newspaper?

Have they used interesting and engaging vocabulary?

Have they given an interesting point of view?

What? What has happened, what is the situation, etc.

Who? Who is or was involved.

When? When the event took place, or is

likely to take place.

Where? Where the event took place.

Connectives

Vocabulary

Extension: either write one of the following...

Punctuation

Openers

A gossip column about the lovers

A gossip column about Bottom and Titania

Agony Aunt Page

Bottom’s guide to acting

Crisis

Fury

Drama

Row

Battle

Dramatic

Sudden

Scandalous

.

,

…

‘‘….’’

!

?

ABC

Improving my writing

or check back through your work to ensure you have met all your targets!

Opening paragraph

On Monday evening, four young nobles named …

The event occurred on …

Detail - the background story

It is believed that these recent events were sparked by …

Quotes from eyewitnesses

According to eye-witnesses…

It was said to be …

Many claim …

Last paragraph

For further information …

In a dramatic twist of events...

Furthermore

Moreover

Yesterday

Next

Then

After that

Meanwhile

Before

Since

Therefore

However

Nonetheless

When you are improving your article, you must:

- Invent a headline that includes either alliteration, a pun or a rhyme.

- Use the sentence openers from the VCOP

- Write in the past tense

- Add more detail e.g explain yourselves fully, use more eyewitness accounts

- Write only in third person - no first person.

Writing Frame

MOST of you have finished your newspaper articles and will be writing up a neat and improved version that will go up on display.

SOME of you haven't quite finished and you will be working with me to get it finished so it can be leveled.

A couple of you were off when we started the newspaper article, so you will be writing it from scratch.

Eyewitness accounts:

Who saw what?

What do each of the characters have to say about what happened?

Last paragraph:

Closing statement...

What might happen next?

Opening paragraph:

What is your story about?

Who is involved?

When/where did the events take place?

Adding more detail:

What happened to spark off these events?

Who exactly are the characters and how are they linked?