Agenda
1) Citation
2) Book Club (for real!)
3) Feature Article Anticipation
Homework
None
Today we finished the citation exercise that we did not get to yesterday. Students practiced writing a "Works cited:" entry for the mini interview they conducted on Monday. The MLA format for a personal interview looks like this (assuming that I was interviewed today)
McCabe, Pete. Personal interview. 19 Nov 2008.
We had our first day of Book Club today. Everyone sat and read for 10 minutes—it was great to see. Note to parents: ask your kids about the book they're reading.
We also did the anticipation exercise for the feature article, in which students agreed or disagreed with each of the following 6 statements.
1) Writing a feature article is more like writing a story than an essay.
2) A fact is a fact, it doesn’t matter who said it.
3) People who write news have to be objective.
4) Journalism is easy because you just write down what happened.
5) Reporters will lie to make the story seem better.
6) If it’s on the internet, it’s probably true.
For parents, again: see if you can guess whether your child agreed or disagreed with each of these.
There is no homework, but any students who do not finish the anticipation exercise can finish it and hand it in tomorrow (Thursday).
