Fall+2013+Calendar


 * **September 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 8/26-8/30

Essential Question || -Introductions

-Go over Syllabus and Computer Compliance Sheet

-HW: Get CCS and Syllabus Signed by Friday; Join Wiki by Friday; Watch/read one peice of news || "Getting to Know Zoo" || *Students Receive Laptops

-Essential Question

-Discuss homework

-1st Amendment Activity

-HW: Find an article or a clip from a news program that you enjoy and bring it in tomorrow || *10th grade meetings on Campus

-Essential Question

-1st Amendment Activity || *11th/12th grade meetings on Campus

-Essential Question

-1st Amendment Activity: Exemptions

Full text: [|http://www.fas.org/irp/] [|crs/95-815.pdf] ||
 * Week 2: 9/2-9/6

Essential Question || No School: Labor Day || -CCS and Syllabus sheets Due

-Biased Journalism

-Essential Question

-Exemptions (cont'd)

-1st Amendment Activity: Fight Five Activity || -Essential Question

-Fight Five Activity and discussion

HW: Find an article, tv clip, or  radio clip that exemplifies one of the 1st Amendment Exemptions; study for quiz Friday || -Essential Question

-Finish Fight Five Activity

-Present Exemption Articles

-Study groups for tomorrow's quiz

HW: Quiz tomorrow || -1st Amendment and exemptions Quiz

-2013 Court Case Activity

-Discuss Sept. 12th submission

-Journal due date Sept 16th

-HW: Find a Sports Article and a News Article and take notes on the differences of how they are reported (i.e. language, paragraph format, etc) ||
 * Week 3: 9/9-9/13

Essential Question || -Essential Question

-Review similarities/ differences on Sports vs. News

-Implications of [|Freedom of Press] || -Essential Question

-Conclude [|Freedom of Press] Activity

-Watch a clip from //The Nightly News// and from //The Daily Show// and analyze differences and similarities

-History of Journalism Webquest || -Essential Question

- Complete History of Journalism Webquest

Presentations and PP on wiki

-HW: Study for quiz on Monday; read two of the three articles on Rick Bragg and Jayson Blair || -Essential Question

-What is fabrication and plagiarism?

-Read and discuss articles "written" by Rick Bragg and Jayson Blair and discuss

-HW: Research a topic for Plagiarizing Activity || -Essential Question

-Write an article on your topic that is completely plagiarized from other sources. (1pg min.)

-Rewrite the article with proper citations and/or in your own words. (1pg min)

HW: Study for quiz Monday; write a half page article considered to be "yellow journalism" || 9/16-920
 * Week 4:

Essential Question || -Essential Question

-Go over "yellow journalism" homework

-Discuss the "inverted pyramid" and use it to write an article pertaining to local news || -Venture Crew Meeting

-HW: Find an article that shows yellow journalism within the last 2 years || -Essential Question

-present yellow journalism homework

-Go over History of Journalism Webquest

Ethics in Journalism WebQuest?

-Is comedy journalism (i.e. John Stuart or Steven Colbert) yellow journalism or legitimate journalism? Find an example to support what you believe. || -Essential Question

-go over "comedy journalism" homework

Ethics in Journalism WebQuest

-Create presentations for webquest

-Inverted Pyramid Homework || History of Journalism Quiz

-Present Ethics in Journalism presentations; discussion

-Post ethics presentations to wiki ||
 * Week 5: 9/23-9/27

Essential Question || -Essential Question

-Finish Ethics presentations

Go over appositives and how they benefit journalism

-Appositives worksheet: Do for homework || -Essential Question

-Write an article on a subject of your choice: 1st half-subjective; 2nd half-objective

-Present to the class

HW: Find an article that uses appositives || -Essential Question

-Present self-written articles

-Present examples of appositives from last night (collect)

-Find different examples of sentries currently posted

-HW: Use your sentry function and find news not yet reported on || -Essential Question

-Discuss what you chose for your sentry post

-Begin Editing Symbols

-Editing Symbols Activity

-HW: Study Editing Symbols || -Essential Question

-Study Day: Review Activities on 1st Amendment, History of Journalism, Ethics, and Editing Symbols

-HW: Study for Exam Monday ||
 * **October 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 9/30-10/4

Essential Question || Unit 1 Exam Today || -Essential Question

-Create a name for the Zoo School Journal: The Mane Attraction

-HW:Find an article that centers around the pros/cons of scholastic censorship || -Essential Question

-Go over homework

-Go over exam

-Logo? Layout?

-HW: Finish editing worksheets || - Essential Question

-Go over 3-5 in editing symbols; Present last night's homework

-Choose a Debate Topic

-Group 1: Tinker Decision Group 2: Hazelwood Decision || -1st Six Weeks Ends

-Prepare Tinker Decision and Hazelwood Decision presentations

-Research Debate topic; prepare and review cases involved in that topic of censorship

-HW: Prepare to take a side on censorship; review cases to prepare ||
 * Week 2: 10/7-10/11

Essential Question || No School || No School || - Present on Tinker Decision and Hazelwood Decision

-Censorship Debate

-Begin a set of laws, ethics, and standards to ensure our journal stays legal, ethical and readable

-HW: What do you want in a journal? Write down your ideas || Big Sweep Presentation || -Discuss laws/ethics for The Mane Attraction and discuss last night's homework

-Discuss future of ZSJ

-Editing symbol practice

HW: Interview 3 people about what they find as important qualities in a Newspaper or news source in general.What makes them choose a specific paper/website/channel to get their news from? (one must be over the age of 40 and one must  be a current zoo school student.  You cannot interview the same person/people as others in the class) || Essential Question || -Compile Interviews in groups of 4; synthesize and present
 * Week 3: 10/14-10/18

-Discussion on importance of news: Local, Regional, National, and International || -Go over percentages

-Using The New York Times, define and exemplify: Feature Story, Editorial, Hard News, and Column

HW: Come up with a "motto" for the paper (i.e. The New York Times' motto is  "Everything Fit to  Print") || -Mottos

-Paper layout

-Timing on paper

-Work on Mane Attraction Ethics || -Essential Question

-Finish Mane Attraction Ethics || -Essential Question

-HW: Using your sentry function, decide what your first article will be; write biographies ||
 * Week 4: 10/21-10/25

Essential Question || -Gathering/ writing leads webquest

-Present different types of leads

-Get into two groups: Headline/Hard news and Local/Opinion/Interest pieces: decide, as a group, what articles will appear in the first issue. Then, decide who will help edit what articles || - Lead presentations

-Bio pics/bios

-Work on articles (what type of lead will they be?) || -Check rough drafts

-Use lead presentations to decide which lead you will do

-Group with editors; begin editing

-Bio Pics/Bios

-HW: Article writers use [|www] [|.paperrater.com] to ensure correct grammar, grade level, etc || -Secondary rough draft editing

-Go over transcription: Verbatim transcription,  Intelligent verbatim, Intelligent transcription and personality profiling: find a personality profile and discuss with class

-HW: Find an interview-intensive article, or a personality profile, and prepare to discuss with the class tomorrow || -Whole School Guest Presentation ||
 * Week 5: 10/28-11/01

Essential Question || Big Sweep || -Essential Question; discuss

-Find an example of scenic lead, storytelling lead, punch lead, opposite lead, blind lead and summary lead (in groups of 2) and present to class

-Go to the following website: [|http:/] [|/matadornetwork] [|.com] [|/bnt/13-simple-journalist-techniques-for-effective-interviews/] and read the entire article and take notes. Be prepared to discuss, in detail, tomorrow. || -Show completion of articles for next week's paper; discuss subject matter

-Discuss article from yesterday

-Final Editors /Layout of Paper

-HW: Find a video interview || Volume 1 Released Today || Those writing articles for next week need to buddy up and edit. Then email your articles to me (this is for a grade)

BBC: Fact vs. Opinion [|http://www.bbc.co.uk] [|/skillswise/] [|topic/fact-or-opinion/resources/l1] Read the four fact sheets and then complete worksheets; Quiz ||
 * **November 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 11/04-11/08

Essential Question || Leads Quiz

-HW: Read The Mane Attraction think of one or two things that could be different this time around || -Fill up articles; secondary editing

-Share Fact vs Opinion worksheets || -Discuss what could be done different this time around

-Second round of editing

-Begin Layout || -Finish Layout; post online

-Witness accuracy sheet (fact vs. opinion)

-Find an article in which witness accuracy was crucial; present the fallibility of their statement/ testimony || -Witness accuracy discussion ||
 * Week 2: 11/11-11/15

Essential Question || No School || -Witness accuracy activity: Roles assigned; interviews prepared; begin interviews || -Witness accuracy activity: Interviewing and assessing data || -Witness accuracy activity

-Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing || [|Hotel Arson Accusation]

[|Eyewitness Testimony Part 1] [|Eyewitness Testimony Part 2]

-Discuss notes

HW: Decide on article ideas for Monday ||
 * Week 3: 11/18-11/22

Essential Question || -Article discussion for 'The Mane Attraction"

-Discuss notes from last week

-Find an example of faulty testimony

-Rough Drafts of articles due tomorrow; inaccuracy presentation due tomorrow || -Inaccuracy presentation

-Editing || 2nd Six Weeks Ends

-2nd Editing

-Witness accuracy activity:Roles assigned; interviews prepared

HW: Final articles due by 8pm tonight || -Finish Layout; post online

-Witness accuracy activity: Interviewing and assessing data || -Witness accuracy activity -Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing ||
 * Week 4: 11/25-11/29

Essential Question || -Witness accuracy activity

-Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing

-TMA review? || -Luncheon

-Interdisciplinary Activity || No School || No School || No School ||
 * **December 2013** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/02-12/06

Essential Question || -Quickly review this week's articles

-Watergate WebQuest

-Those who did their interviews must have the play-by-play and article completed by tomorrow || -Watergate Presentations

-Editing

-Discuss final outcome of witness accuracy activity || -Editing

-Read All the President's Men article

-All the President's Men (with guide) || -Editing/Publication

-All the President's Men (with guide) || -Finish viewing All the President's Men

-Discuss guide

HW: Compile your "must know" list from the Watergate scandal and be prepared to show on Monday ||
 * Week 2: 12/09-12/13

Essential Question || -Watch All the President's Men Revisited

-Compile homework for prep on Watergate Quiz -Timeline and what happened -Names and their involvement -Impact on journalism and government || -Finish prep work for Watergate Quiz || -Read Watergate Background, US vs. Nixon, and "The SmokingGun" transcripts

-Complete Watergate worksheet

[|-Read "Above the Law" by UVA]

-[|Read Ford's pardon of Nixon] || Study Day || Watergate Exam ||
 * Week 3: 12/16-12/20

Essential Question || -Go over this week's articles

-Political Article: Conservative Liberal, Unbiased || -Edit Articles

-National Geographic: The Brain || -Political Presentations

-Editing || -Political Presentations

-Publish

-Survey || -Black Fish/Socratic Seminar ||
 * Week 4: 12/23-12/25 || No School || No School || No School || No School || No School ||
 * **January 2014** || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday || Friday ||
 * Week 1: 12/30-1/03

Essential Question || No School || No School || No School || Essential Question

-Reporting on Crimes Activities: [|"Facing a Jury of (Some of)] [|One's Peers"]

[|"Puerto Ricans Angry That U.S. Overrode Death Penalty Ban"]

|| -Writing Field Notes

-Conducting Field Interviews

-Watch "Disappeared" and take field notes ||
 * Week 2: 1/06-1/10

Essential Question || -Discuss "Disappeared" case

- HW: Practice Field Interviews by preparing to interview Lee's mother || -Discuss Homework

-Begin ZS Murder Investigation

-HW: Finish writing articles || ZS Murder Investigation: Mathematics of the Crime

- HW: Submit finalized articles by 8pm tonight || ZS Murder Investigation: Forensics and Interviews || ZS Murder Investigation: Forensics and Interviews ||
 * Week 3: 1/13-1/17

Essential Question || ZS Murder Investigation: Forensics and Interview

HW: Study for Final || Assessing Data: Begin working on analysis and article

HW: Study for Final || Assessing Data: work on oral presentations and finish analysis and article

HW: Study for Final || ** Finals **


 * Visit: [|The Newseum Website] **
 * for really cool info on the history of News ** || ** Finals ** ||
 * Week 4: 1/20-1/24 || No School || No School || No School || 1st Day of 2nd Semester ||  ||