Agenda
1) Warmup
Tell me the story of the person you interviewed.
2) Book club
Homework
Write 5 research questions that you need to answer to write about the disaster.
As we get closer to the end of the feature article assignment, class is slowing down as I try to make sure that everyone understands what we're doing, and to give everyone a chance to do as much of the work as possible in class. Today's warmup was basically a short rough draft of the part of the article that tells the story of the person you interviewed.
Tomorrow we will get on the computer and do some of our research, so the homework is to write five research questions whose answers you'll use when writing about the disaster itself. So, for example, if you're writing about your parent who experienced the Northridge Earthquake, you're also going to be writing about the earthquake itself, or about earthquakes in general—what causes them, or how do they predict them, or what to do in an earthquake, or how building codes have changed to protect against earthquakes, etc. So write down the five questions you have about the disaster you're writing about, and tomorrow we'll try to find out the answers.
