Review

Objective: To look back and analyze what worked, what didn't work and what could work in the future by discussing your thoughts about this class.

Please CLICK HERE to go to the form. Please answer as honest as possible, but be helpful honest. Don't just say "I liked it" or "I didn't like it." Tell me WHY.

Thanks,
Mr. Uttech

Keep your brain active

The following are games that make you THINK. They are not shooting/killing/push-buttons-as-fast-as-you-can games.

OBJECTIVE: To critically think your way through a problem in order to find a solution. To continue to keep your brain active even after a week of taking tests.

CLICK HERE to go to blifaloo.com

Please work on puzzles and brainteasers, optical illusions or fun quizzes.

OR

http://www.fossweb.com/modulesMS/index.html

To prepare for tomorrow's science test.

OR

http://www.miniclip.com/games/bloxorz/en/

Story Telling or Castro Cougar Courier

Remember the cartooning program? http://domo.goanimate.com/create

• Tell a story using Domo Animate.
  
• It can be a story about yourself, your friends or a fictional story.
• Think about everything you do in writing class: characters, plot, setting, rising action, falling action, etc.
  
• There should be a conflict and a solution.
  
• Your story should have a beginning, middle and end.
• You can save your stories now, using the same login as the Castro Cougar Courier.
• If you want, you can also write a story for the Castro Cougar Courier
  

Holiday Message

Objective: Inform an audience about a holiday or create a message for an audience about a holiday using iMovie.

• You may use pictures from the internet (remember to list your sources at the end).
• You may interview each other.
• You may choose any holiday. It could be Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or even an non-winter holiday.

• Your iMovie must give a definition of the holiday.
• Your iMovie must explain what the holiday means to you.
• Your iMovie must include text, transitions, pictures and video.
  

Current Events 12/8/10

Write 3-4 sentences. Use proper grammar and correct spelling.

Use google news to search. List your source.

CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

C-SPAN's Student Cam 2011

Objective: To discuss an issue, event or topic that helps you better understand the role of the federal government in your life or community by creating a potential award-winning video.

Purpose: To enhance our knowledge of PSAs and iMovie by looking at student-created award-winning videos. To possibly submit our own videos and win.

Check out C-SPAN's Student Cam 2011 website.

1. Click on Past Winners to see examples of what we're working on.

2. Click on "Downloadable C-SPAN Footage" and scroll down to read the list of topics. Choose a topic.

3. Click on FAQ's and read what you video needs to have in order to be submitted.

4. Plan out your project in WORD. What will you need? As you begin your resource, remember to list your sources.

Advertising

OBJECTIVE: To inform students about a specific topic by using interesting and informative design elements.

Use the program PAGES to design an advertisement/something you'd like to inform students about.

Pick a page layout in PAGES (Poster Small or Blank).

Some ideas:

• You've seen the motivational posters in the hallway. Make your own with pictures from Castro.
• Announcements for the dance
• Announcements for basketball or football games
• PSA type announcements

Remember:

• Make sure your information is FACTUAL
• You ask permission before you use someone's photo
• Check your grammar and spelling
  

Reading the News

OBJECTIVE: We will read and analyze an article by answering questions in order to better understand what goes into a journalistic article. We will be analyzing professional articles in order to develop our own writing for the Castro Cougar Courier.

Please go to CNN.com or AZCentral.com and choose ONE article.

CLICK HERE and stay with that same article for these questions.

If you finish, go to FREE RICE to raise our numbers for the week.

Current Events 12/1/10

Objective: We will study and analyze the news by researching information on the internet.

Please remember to write where you found your answers. You can copy and paste from your browser's address bar.

You could also write, "According to CNN.com, ..." or "I found the answers on CNN.com." Don't just use CNN.com, write where you found your answers.

CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

You may also go to CNN Student News to watch a 10 minute news report that will contain some of the answers.

Do Something - Free Rice

One 7th Grade group has found a way to help people by using Free Rice.com!

Click here to go to our group page

You must follow these directions so our group gets credit for the grains of rice we raise:

1. Then click on "Login" to join this group on the right hand side.

2. Login: mruttech
Password: castro

3. Then toward the bottom, there is a "Top Groups" menu with Castro Middle School listed. Click on Castro Middle School.

4. Click "Play" on the right hand side.

5. Choose any category you want. You can switch categories.

Try different categories and try to earn as much rice as you can. The more answers you get right, the more rice is given to people who need food.

We will be trying to win "Class of the Week!" on Free Rice.com

Give it a try and DO SOMETHING!

Are you following?

You should be:

1. Working on your Do Something.org project

OR

2. Finishing your PSA

OR

3. Writing a news article for the Castro Cougar Courier or editing others' work. Remember to write the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, and WHY of an event. Remember to write the TRUTH and write with correct grammar and spelling.

OR

4. Go to Channel One News and create your own project. Find something fun and discuss it with Mr. Uttech to be a separate assignment.

Now Do It, For Real

The dosomething.org website allows students like you to actually plan out your ideas. Take some time to think out your idea further.

And continue to explore the website for ideas and examples of other students your age making a change to make this world a better place.

CLICK here to continue to think out your idea before we post your idea.

Then start searching for websites that relate to your topic. For example, if you chose:

Animal Welfare, just type 'animal welfare' into google or check out http://www.azhumane.org/

Violence and Bullying, just type 'bullying' into google or check out Olweus

Discrimination, check out http://www.tolerance.org/

Be sure to bookmark sites you find or take notes in WORD

Do Something

Recently, you were asked "if you could change the world, what would you do?"

Today, let's explore our responses a little deeper.

You will be searching for information on dosomething.org. There are questions to answer, but the main purpose is to get you familiar with the website. Once you are familiar with the website, if you are inspired to do something, then let's do it!

1. Go to DOSOMETHING.ORG

2. Answer these questions.

Flex Friday

You have several different options today:

1. Finish your PSA

2. Answer these current events questions.

3. Write an article for the Castro Cougar Courier.

PSA Questions

Please work on these questions as a group.

Answering these questions will help you focus your thoughts to help edit your PSA or create a more focused PSA for next time.

Click here to answer these questions.

Public Service Announcement (PSA)

What is a PSA?
PSAs are intended to let people know about specific issues. The most common topics of PSAs are health and safety.

What do PSAs do?

• Gets the viewer's attention
• Convinces the viewer that they can make a difference
• Makes every word and image count
• Uses emotions to compel your viewer
• Clearly calls the viewer to action

What are some examples of PSAs?

• Drug Abuse Prevention
  
• Nutrition
• High School Dropout Prevention
• Stop Bullying
• Hearing Loss
• Wearing your seat belt

Source: http://www.ivieawards.org/categories/psa/psa.html

Guidelines for your PSA:

• be serious
• have a clear message
• be no longer than 30-45 seconds
• have important information
• have accurate information
• use someone who looks believable
• use someone famous (but does not have to be)
• use someone who is likeable and respected
• use someone who can act ( is credible)
• use someone who is dressed appropriately for the part he is playing
• give statistics (when appropriate, e.g. number of people that die because they were not wearing seatbelts)

Source: TeacherNet

Assignment:
Create your own PSA. It could be about one of the topics listed above or you could make it about something here at school.

• What do you want people to know?

Things you will need:

• Research from the internet (remember where you found it)
  
• Photos that you take or from the internet
  
• You will need to write out what you are going to say and how you are going to say it.
• Video
• Use iMovie to produce your PSA

Objectives:
Students will be able to discuss topics that affect them and others and give information through the use of PSAs and iMovie. Students will be able to analyze topics and create ways to get a specific message out to others through the use of PSAs and the iMovie editing process.

Current Events

Hello!

Please answer these current events questions.

Your answers will be sent to me. I will be able to see who did and did not do their work.

On the right, you will see who finished their work. If your name is not on the list, please finish this today.

If you are done today, please go to:

http://domo.goanimate.com/create

We will be using this to create stories again. This time we will be saving and sharing our stories. Please use the same log in as the Castro Cougar Courier.

Remember, you must tell a story using:

characters
setting
plot
rising action
climax
falling action
problem, solution

Turn in yesterday's work

Click here to turn in your work.

Continue working if you did not finish yesterday.

Journalism (and life) Principles

OPEN A WORD DOCUMENT TO TYPE YOUR ANSWERS

Click here to read: Journalism 101 - 16 Things You Learn in J-School

Pick 5 of the 16 things.

Answer these questions:

1. What does this mean to you?
2. Why do you think it is important?
3. How does it relate to writing stories about Castro?
4. How does it relate to life?

For example:

If I pick number 1: "Name Your Sources"

I would answer the questions like this:

1. This means I need to give credit to people I get information from. I am writing a story, but other people have information I need.

2. This is important because I did not find everything on my own. I had help and I need to acknowledge that I had help. This will show that I am an honest writer and reporter.

3. When writing stories about Castro I need to remember who I interviewed and give credit for what they say and what information they give me.

4. In life, it is important to remember who helps me and to give credit to them. In other words, I'm giving "props" to the people who help me do well.

Castro Cougar Courier

Write a new story for the Castro Cougar Courier.

Remember, the Courier is the Castro News: The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of Castro.

Think of some events that have occurred here at Castro since we last wrote for the Courier.

• Last Friday's speaker Calvin Terrell

• Sports and Cheer tryouts

• The Dance

• Anything that is going on here at Castro!

Remember to use proper grammar and full sentences.

Remember to be fair, cause no harm and discuss the main idea from multiple sides (student ideas, teacher ideas, community ideas)

Current Events

Search for the answers on credible news websites.
List your source. (Where did you find the answer)

CLICK HERE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

Word of the Day

Go to http://www.merriam-webster.com/word/archive.php

Select five words.

In PAGES,

1. Write the word.
2. Write the definition.
3. Use the word in a sentence.
4. Using photo booth or google, create or find a photo that helps describe the word.
5. Place the photo in PAGES.

Group Focus

We will:

• Demonstrate work ethics
• Demonstrate teamwork
• Practice effective time and meeting management
• Create a work schedule and plan to accomplish it

By:

• Creating a group
• Deciding what you will work on

1. Open a WORD or PAGES document.
2. Write what you think it means to be:

• Fair
• Accurate
• Independent
• Accountable
• And what it means to "minimize harm."
  

Story Telling

Continue iWeb or iMovie

Try this! http://domo.goanimate.com/create

• Tell a story using Domo Animate.
  
• It can be a story about yourself, your friends or a fictional story.
• Think about everything you do in writing class: characters, plot, setting, rising action, falling action, etc.
  

Prepare

1. Prepare for conferences

• Make sure you have your progress report filled out.
• Make sure you have easy access to your projects. Make a folder so you can find your work quickly.
• Decide 3 or 4 top things you want to show to your parents/guardians/brothers/sisters.
  
• Clean up your desktop. Put any random photos in a folder.

2. Go to http://castro.cartwright.schoolfusion.us

In a word document, write:

• What do you want to add on this page?
  
• What do you think your parents would want to see?

Web Site Creation

Currently we have the Castro Cougar Courier for our news. But we can create our own website.

Take a look at these school news websites.

1. http://stardust.jmc.asu.edu/maryvale/maryvale/Home.html

2. http://stardust.jmc.asu.edu/tolleson/Daily_Dawg_Pound/Home.html

3. http://stardust.jmc.asu.edu/fairfax/Stampede_Press/Home.html

In PAGES create a table (just like your progress report)

In your table, analyze the websites.

Be sure to write:

• Name of the site (Name)
  
• Give 5 examples of what you like and why (Good - Why)
  
• Give 5 examples of what you would change and why (Change - Why)
  
• Compare the site to the Castro Cougar Courier (Compare)
  
• What is different about the site and the Castro Cougar Courier (Contrast)
  
• What is one feature you want to have on our school news website. (Must Have)
  

Current Events

Please answer these questions with full sentences, proper grammar and correct punctuation.

Remember to list your sources. (Where did you get the information?)

Be sure to answer the questions with 3-5 sentences each. Give the who, what, where, when, why and who cares of each answer.

1. Give a review of the Suns season opener. (Who did they play? Where did they play? Who scored the most? Which big-name player do the Suns not have this season? What was the score?)

2. Find some articles about the storm yesterday in Phoenix. Write about what happened. (Was there any damage? Any injuries? What kind of precipitation fell?)

3. What happened at a Florida school that resulted in a boy's year-long suspension?

4. What happened in Chile? What is going on to help the people? How long have they been trapped? When will they be saved?

5. What do you think about the Galileo test? Do you think you were ready for it? Do you think it correctly measures what you know?

Yearbook Ideas

Open a WORD document and brainstorm student life coverage.

One of the main purposes of a yearbook is to look back on your school days 20 years from now and see what you did and what was going on.

Look at these brainstorming questions and answer 5 of them. When brainstorming, you don't need to have full sentences or a certain number of paragraphs. Just get your ideas written down.

1. What do you notice about the following?

• Clothing
• Accessories
• Technology
• Food
• Families
• Hobbies

2. What talents do people have and display at school?

3. What's popular? What's not popular?

4. What are the most commonly violated school rules?

5. What happens before school? After school?

6. What happens during the day?

• Passing periods
• Library
• Outside
• Lunch
• Classes
• Restrooms

7. Outside of school, what do you do?

• Popular places to go
• Places to hangout
• Athletics outside of school
• Where to be seen
• Where not to be seen
• Music

Cougar Courier

If you are currently working on a video story, please continue working.

If you need to plan a video story, please plan.

If you want to write a story and post, please post.

If you want to edit stories so that our news feed for the morning announcements looks professional, please edit.

Portraits and Stop Motion

For the first part of class you will be taking portraits of the art class.

1. Take a close, tight shot of their face so you can see the details.
2. Take another close, tight shot of their face showing emotion.

For the next part of class, create a stop motion video by taking many images of the same thing, slightly moved.

The First Amendment

1. Read the First Amendment.

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.

2. Re-write the First Amendment so that it applies to you and the Castro Cougar Courier.

3. Look up Prior Restraint. What does it mean? How does it relate to the freedom of speech?

4. Why are there some things that you can't say?

5. How far do my First Amendment rights go as a student?

6. Are my rights being infringed upon by school rules? State laws? My parents?

7. What about privacy? Is it a reporter's responsibility to protect an individual's or group's privacy? Or is a reporter supposed to report everything they find because it is the truth?

Ethics, Part II

Go back to the Ethics Assignment and review.

"The school board has passed a motion on a vote of 5-4 to ban ipods stating that they are too distracting. You have been assigned to write the story for the Castro Cougar Courier."

1. For the ethics assignment, you were to write an unbiased article about the news. An unbiased article only contains the who, what, where, when and why: the most important information. It does not contain your thoughts.
2. Now write an opinion article on the matter. This is your viewpoint. Tell your reader why you agree or disagree with the decision to ban ipods.
   

Progress

Take a look at the assignments on the right. You should be completing these assignments.

All these assignments relate to our news of Castro.

Make sure you are completing these assignments and thinking about how they relate to your news stories.

Remember, we can always edit stories on the Castro Cougar Courier. Why? Eventually, these stories will be on the morning announcements! We want our work to look good.

Ethics

Ethics addresses questions about good and bad, right and wrong.

How will we address ethics in our articles, photos and videos?

Please finish these sentences and write three reasons why each is important.

1. Responsibility. The school reporter will always...

2. Freedom/Independence. The school newspaper staff will...

3. Truth and accuracy. Every reporter will make sure to...

4. Impartiality/Fair play. In every controversial issue, the staff will make sure to...

Here is a potential issue:

The school board has passed a motion on a vote of 5-4 to ban ipods stating that they are too distracting. You have been assigned to write the story for the Castro Cougar Courier.

Write about how the code of ethics should guide your article.

Journalists Observe

As writers/photographers/videographers of Castro Middle, we need to OBSERVE what is going on around us and report the truth.

Go to Time

or

National Geographic

• Look at five pictures
• For each picture, make five observations.
  
• Write your observations in WORD or PAGES.
• Drag the picture into WORD or PAGES with your written observations.
• Remember to record where you got the photo from.

Now go to http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/castromiddle

• This will be our IDEA BOARD.
  
• Have a story idea? Did you see something? Hear something? Know about something?
• What's going on at Castro? In Phoenix? In your life?
• Write it down. Take a note. Leave a comment or idea.
• We will share our knowledge in order to work better as a team and learn better as individuals.
  

News of Castro

We are beginning to write, take photos and make videos for longer, more detailed stories.

• Make sure you take a look at the "Story Idea" sheet if you haven't already.
• Before you go out to report, you need to fill in the 5Ws and So What of your story.
• You also need to get permission from teachers, students BEFORE you interview them.
• You may go by yourself or with a partner.
• Only two groups can go out at a time.
• You should only be out reporting for 10-15 minutes.
  

Others in class should be working on planning their article, editing articles or working on their article for the Castro Cougar Courier.

• Remember, even with video, articles on the Castro Cougar Courier need to have a beginning, middle and end. Three paragraphs (each paragraph needs to be at least 3-5 sentences long.
• Proper grammar
• Correct spelling
• Does it make sense?
  

One way to plan is to look at examples:

• Go to My High School Journalism
• Read through some student written articles.
• In WORD, write if their articles have conflict, action, timely information, new ideas or prominent people.

1. Are the articles just about their school or could you write a similar article about Castro?
   
2. Do their articles have an impact on someone or something?
   

More than One Side to Every Story

Gossip Versus The Truth

Please write 3-4 sentence answers. Write in complete sentences with proper grammar and correct spelling.

1. What is gossip?

2. If you hear something about somebody, do you believe it right away? Why or why not?

3. What does it mean to “get more sides of the story?”

4. Do you think it is a reporter’s job to influence people’s ideas or inform them about what happened? Why?

Choose a story on azcentral.com.
Read the story and answer these questions:

1. Write the title of the article:

2. What is the main idea of the article?

3. Did the author inform you or influence you?

4. Do you think there is another side to the story?

5. Who would you talk to in order to get another side to the story?

Castro Courier ... So What?

Read through the Castro Cougar Courier

1. Edit or add to one short article. Remember, articles should:

• Have a beginning, middle and end (3 paragraphs).
  
• Paragraphs can be short, 3-4 sentences.
• Correct grammar and spelling. Proper punctuation.
  

Find seven articles that relate to the seven aspects of journalism.

• Describe why the article relates to the aspect.
  

So What?

You know the WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY.

Now for the SO WHAT?

In Pages, define these words:

Conflict
Action
Timeliness
Novelty
Impact
Proximity
Prominence

Use dictionary.com.

Write a dictionary definition and then write your own definition.

Find a picture online to help describe each word.

You should finish with 7 pages. One word, dictionary definition, your definition and pictures on each page.

Castro News continued

Please continue your work on your Castro News articles.

CLICK HERE to go to www.castrocougarcourier.blogspot.com

Go through and read other stories. Make sure there is correct spelling, proper grammar and full sentences.

Take a look at some high school news websites and see how their stories are written.

The Free Press

The Casa Chronicle

Progress Report

What? You will be creating your progress report using tables in PAGES.

Where? By using PAGES, you will continue your knowledge about that program and how it works.

When? Now.

Who? You.

Why?? To become an independent, reflective, problem-solving student, it is beneficial to you to take a look at your own work and make decisions about your own progress.

I definitely offer feedback if you say you completed everything, but your work does not show that you completed everything.

Your assignments:

• Way of Life in WORD
• I was, I am, I want in POWERPOINT
• Photo Slide Show in iPHOTO
• Current events questions in WORD
• Outside photos/video in iPHOTO
• News of Castro on CASTRO COUGAR COURIER
  

Cougar Courier - The News of Castro

Write a story about Castro.

Write 3 paragraphs - beginning, middle, end. Your paragraphs can be 3-5 sentences long.

For a story idea, chose a photo that you took yesterday or Thursday to write about.

Or choose a completely different story.

Your log in is castro.cougars8@gmail.com

Take a look at the Castro Cougar Courier

Picture Day

I will take pictures to tell a story.

What story do you want to tell?

Take at least three action shots.

Take at least three emotional shots.

Take at least three shots that make people want to say "WOW, look at that picture."

Take at least one shot that involves repetition.

STRAIGHTEN your camera please.

Learning from Practice

Open and type in WORD to complete today’s assignment. You will be answering questions about what we did on Thursday.

Write 2-3 sentences for each answer.

Be sure to save your WORD document.

We will do the same thing on Monday that we did on Thursday (taking pictures, video outside), but after we review what went well and what we can do better.

What did you like about yesterday? (Taking pictures, video outside)

What went well?

What could have went better?

Why do you think we did that?

What did you learn?

How will you be able to use what you learned in this class?

Watch the attached video. It goes fast. You will have to pause to read the slides. These are some elements of photography that we will be using. Answer the following questions.


What are the elements of photography?

Do you think you used any elements in your pictures yesterday?

Current Events

Objectives:
“I will read and research current events.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Write your answers in a Word document. Save the word document as Current_Events_9_8.doc. Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

1. What Central American country had torrential rains that triggered mudslides, killing at least 40 during the last week?

2. In a speech Monday, President Obama promised to push for $50 billion to create jobs to upgrade America’s infrastructure. What does he (and the media) mean by this term?

3. President Obama also was planning to announce Wednesday another request he will make to Congress to help the economy. He said he will propose that businesses be allowed to get tax write-offs in 2011 for everything they spend for what?

4. What was the name of the storm earlier this week that hit parts of Mexico and then crossed into Texas, though most of the damage there was due to rain and flooding?

5. What happened in Colorado this week that destroyed an unknown number of homes in the foothills near Boulder?

6. With elections two months off, which party is worried about losing seats in the House and perhaps losing its control there?

"You Are"

Pick someone in class to interview.

In WORD, type nine questions to ask them. (Preparation)

Ask them at least 10 questions.

So, be sure to ask them something you hadn't thought of.

Why? You should be LISTENING closely to their answers. (Active listening)

As they are answering, type their answers in WORD. (Keep a record of what they say)

Write a story about that person using at least one or two quotes.

READ this story to see how you can put in quotes.

Pictures with a Purpose

Take a picture of you or your friend exhibiting five emotions.

Import the pictures into iPhoto.

Create an album.

Examine the various iPhoto techniques.

Create a slide show.

Getting Stories From Pictures, Part II

Scroll through these pictures and read the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW.

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/6-qs-about-the-news/

In WORD, answer these questions:

1. What kinds of photos interested you most? Why?

2. What kinds interested you least? Why?

3. What do you notice about the questions posed for each photo?

4. In general, which kinds of questions seem easy to answer, assuming you had access to the original article?

5. Which seem to require more than just finding the “right” answer in the text?

Getting Stories From Pictures

Have your group analyze the photo and write answers to these questions on the attached sheet of paper.

Mr. Uttech will notify you when to pass it to the next group.

Take a moment to read through the other group's comments and then write your own.

1. Make a personal connection to the photo.

2. Write a question the photo brings to mind.

3. Write a detailed observation about the photo.

4. Make a guess as to what information the original caption of this photo imparted.

OBJECTIVES:
To analyze professional photographs and to determine what makes a good photograph.

To determine what techniques we should be using when taking photographs.

We will be focusing on the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY and HOW of stories.

5 Ws, H, and Who Cares?

When writing your "news of Castro," be sure to include the "who, what, where, when, why, how."

If you've already written your first "news of Castro" story. Think deeper about it today. Did you include the 'who, what, where, when, why and how?" Who will read your story and why?

Take a look today at www.azcentral.com or newspapers or magazines and answer these questions in WORD:

1. How can the news be fun?
2. How do these professionals use "who, what, where, when, why, how?"
3. Why do people want to read stories like this? Who cares about this and why?
4. How do the pictures help tell the story?
   

The News of Castro

Think about how you are the reporters for Castro Middle School. You will be writing, taking pictures and filming the news of Castro.

In these early days of school there are many events to write about: first day of school, new classes, new friends, new principals, new teachers, old teachers, old friends and more!

1. Go to www.azcentral.com.

• Find an article that interests you and read it.

2. Write a story about Castro. We will post these stories onto our online "newspaper" The Castro Cougar Courier.

• Remember to include who, what, when, where, why and how.

• Your story should be about three paragraphs. In the journalism world, a paragraph is about 3-4 sentences. You should have a beginning, middle and end.

New Media

Check out the Cougar Courier.

Read some posts.

Decide what you want to write about. This is your school. Your blog. Your voice.

I was, I am, I want

Journalism is all about telling truthful stories. For this assignment you will be telling your story. Later in the class we will tell our friend's stories and then we'll tell stories about Castro.

You will be using Pages.

You will find Pages by clicking on the Spotlight in the upper right hand corner and typing iWork. You will see and iWork '09 folder come up. Click on it and pull Pages into your dock.

Pages is a word processing program and operates a lot like Word.

Please see your rubric for more information.

Enjoy telling your story!

Write One Interesting Fact

"Everyone has a story."

What does that mean? We all have families, likes, dislikes, thoughts and ideas. We all want to do something, be somebody or be somewhere.

All it takes to hear your story is someone willing to listen.

Write one interesting fact about your self in the comment column below.

Remember to be respectful, and responsible about communicating via the internet.

Welcome Back

Hello Cougars,

Welcome back to school. My name is Mr. Uttech and I'm glad to have you in class. We'll be working hard and learning a lot, but this class will also be a special experience for you.

We won't have your normal "fill-in-the-bubble" tests in this class. We won't have worksheets. You will be working on projects and have the opportunity to work in groups at times.

This is called a CTE class, which stands for Career and Technical Education. You'll be learning skills which you'll be able to someday use in a job. You may not necessarily work with computers all day, or become a photo-journalist, but you may need to know how to successfully use email, type or design a poster.

Two things are for sure. You will need to know how to communicate. You will need to know how to solve problems, or as I like to say "use your brain." These things are important for your life and for future jobs.

More importantly, these things are important for you right now.

Let's work hard, do good things and use our brains.

Your Last Few Days At Castro

Using any of the programs we learned how to use this year (Pages, iMovie, Powerpoint, Word) ...

Tell an audience about your 8th grade year, by creating a presentation with one of the programs.

Write or design it any way you want.

Consider news elements in your story:

• Who, what, where, when, why, how
• Conflict, action, timeliness, novelty, impact, proximity, prominence.
  

Finish Posters and Current Events

A. Finish your Yearbook advertisement.

B. Email me your current events answers.

1. Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with President Obama yesterday. Today Mr. Calderon meets with Congress. The likely topics of discussion are: , and

2. An investigation by international authorities and South Korea into the sinking of a South Korean warship in March has concluded:

3. Observations from the scene as well as satellite photography show that oil from the Gulf Oil leak now has moved into a specific current called the

4. This is significant because

5. Government forces in finally cracked down on protesters in the capital city and 24 provinces and have extended a dusk to dawn curfew, hoping to end the violence that has plagued that country for the last several weeks.

Objectives:
“I will read and research.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

Yearbook Sales

Create a poster in WORD or in PAGES advertising the yearbook.

What: Castro 2009-10 Yearbook
Where: Front office
When: Before and After school
How much? $22 (It cost 21.65 to make the book. The school is not trying to rip you off. It costs a lot of money to make a hard-bound, color book.)
How long? There's only two weeks until June 1st promotion. Buy yours today!!

Good Night and Good Luck Questions - Wed. and Thurs.

• Please answer the questions with full sentences, proper grammar and correct punctuation.

• Write 3-4 sentences for each question.

• Answering the connecting questions (How YOU relate to the movie) are the most important. Please give some more time and thought into those answers.

• Use what you remember from the movie. If you can remember, you can search online.

• Write your answers in WORD or email me your answers using gaggle.

1. One of the lines in his speech is, “Our history will be what we make it.” How does this relate to the people to whom he is speaking? How does this relate to you?

2. What is the mood in the country Oct. 14, 1953 when the next scene begins? How has Senator Joseph McCarthy played a role in this? Can you make any connections to the mood of the country today?

3. What do you think it was like to work in the news department of CBS in the 1950s? What are some of the scenes that show this?

4. What are some clues that Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, agree about coverage of the McCarthy situation? How important is it to have a friend or co-worker agree with you about something? How does it make you feel when you can work together as a team with someone or many people?

5. What are some early signs that some at CBS don’t totally agree with what Murrow and Friendly are doing? How do you deal with someone if they don't agree with what you are doing, even though you know what's right?

6. What do others who work with them think about the controversial programs Murrow and Friendly are doing?

7. How can you tell Murrow, Friendly and their crew are somewhat nervous about airing the McCarthy program?

8. What is the effect of using the actual film footage of McCarthy, Radulovich, Annie Lee Moss and others?

9. Some critics say the movie ends too abruptly. Do you see any indication of what will happen in the future?

10. What did you like the most about the film? Can you see any connections to your life?

Good Night and Good Luck

Take a look at the characters and actors in the movie. What else have they been in?

Full Cast and Crew

Who is Fred Friendly? Who is the actor who plays him? Who is Fred in real life? Why is he important?

Who is Joe Wershba? Who is the actor who plays him? Who is Joe in real life? Why is he important?

Who is Shirley Wershba? Who is the actress who plays her? Who is she in real life? Why is she important? Joe and Shirley are married, but need to hide their marriage. Why?

Who is Sig Mickelson? Who is the actress who plays him? Who is he in real life? Why is he important?

Non-Current Events: Early 1950s

Answer these questions in preparation for the video next week.

Describe how any of these non-current events/people might be important to you. Explain why or why not.

1. Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy? What is McCarthy infamous for?
(If you don't know the definition of "infamous," please look it up using dictionary.com)

2. Who is Edward R. Murrow? What was his job? Why is he important?

3. What is communism?

4. What was the Red Scare?

5. Why do you think it is important to study history?




Objectives:
“I will read and research.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

Observe and Report, Part II

Yesterday you looked at a photo, wrote observations and questions. These observations and questions should have been based only on what you saw in the photo.

Today, write two paragraphs about the photo from information you find on the internet about your photo.

• Give more detail and explain what your photo is about.
• Try to answer the questions you wrote by searching online.
• Check to see if your observations are correct.
  

WHY? - We can learn a lot from simply observing. But only observing doesn't give us the whole truth. We must ask questions and investigate before reporting.

Example: You can observe a fight, but unless you ask questions and investigate, you won't know the whole truth about what happened.

Observe and Report

Good writers need to observe the world around them.

Take a look at recent news photos:

Washington Post

USA Today

Orlando Sentinel

Arizona Republic

1. Pick a photo.
1. Write down 5 observations about that photo. (Who, what, where, when, why or anything you observe)
3. Write 5 questions you'd like to ask the people in the photo or the person who took the photo.
4. Write a new caption for the photo.
5. Think of a headline for the story that would go with this photo.

Source: http://www.hsj.org/Teachers/Lesson_Plans/Detail.cfm?lessonplanid=259

Cleaning up our video segments

We've been working on creating iMovie video segments and you've had the chance to interview students and teachers. You've put the raw video into iMovie and have done edits to create news features.

We're now going to take it a step further. First, we'll analyze professional news segments by comparing and contrasting professional and our own news segments.

• What do professional news segments have that we don't have?
• What do professional news segments have that we could have?
• How are most professional news segments organized? (Think: Beginning, middle, end)
• Remember, we're focusing on HOW it is done, not WHAT the story is about.
  

1. Watch several different news segments.

• Channel 5 - http://www.kpho.com - News video is on the right hand side of the page.
• Channel 12 - http://www.azcentral.com/12news/ - Video is front and center.
• Google video search for news
  

2. In WORD:

• write down what is similar about the news segments.
• write down some differences between the news segments.
• write down what is similar between the professional news segments and our news segments.
• write down what is different between the professional news segments and our news segments.

3. What will you do differently now when you are creating your own news segment?

4. Email me your answers.

• Be sure to write in complete sentences. Use proper grammar.
• List your sources.
  

Current Events 4/22/10

1. What country began experiencing a significant volcanic eruption last week?

2. What international industry is feeling a major financial and logistical impact as a result of the volcano?

3. Two professional sports are now into their end-of-the-season playoffs. Name one of them.
Extra credit: Name the other.

4. What kind of videos are no longer illegal to sell after the Supreme Court this week struck down a lower court’s ban on them?

5. What does one in three teens do at least 100 times a day, according to a new study?

6. What ingredient does the FDA now say must be decreased in food and beverages?

School News

What has been happening around your school?

Write a 3-paragraph story focused on an event at school.

Your story could be a preview article about the Leadership Conference. Who will you interview to get information? Who do you know is going? How did they get selected? You can write the article, take pictures or produce a video article in iMovie.

You must include a quote from a friend.

You must think of a good hook for the beginning. Why would I want to read or watch your story? Your first sentence should make me want to read on.

Write first, then consider how you could create an iMovie segment.

Leadership Ideas

We are preparing for the first annual Raul H. Castro Student Leadership conference on April 24. Please go to our ning and comment on today's questions.
Thanks.

rhcastro5.ning.com

rhcastro6.ning.com

Raul H. Castro Institute

Making current events YOUR event

Good afternoon class,

First, answer the question of the day on our ning.

rhcastro5.ning.com or rhcastro6.ning.com

Continue to search news websites for a current event that interests or affects you.

cnn.com

espn.com

azcentral.com

Or different websites you find...

Find a news item that interests you because it is close to home, there is action or conflict, it deals with a famous person, happened recently or is new and exciting.

Research all that you can about that news item. Is there any history leading up to the news story?

Type your notes and sources in WORD and put together an iMovie segment discussing the news you picked. You can use video or pictures.

Share your ideas using the Ning.

Create a blog post discussing how you picked a current event, why you picked it and how you are going to use iMovie to present your current event. Will it be a photo slide show? Will you report on it? Will you interview other people?

Current Events: Revised

First, answer the question of the day on our ning.

rhcastro5.ning.com or rhcastro6.ning.com

We will be doing current events differently from now on.

Today, search news websites for a current event that interests or affects you.

cnn.com

espn.com

azcentral.com

Or others...

Find a news item that interests you because it is close to home, there is action or conflict, it deals with a famous person, happened recently or is new and exciting.

Research all that you can about that news item. Is there any history leading up to the news story?

Type your notes and sources in WORD and put together an iMovie segment discussing the news you picked. You can use video or pictures.

Ning

Make sure you get set up on our Ning today. Check your gaggle email or talk to me about whether or not you can sign in.

There is a question in the blog area that I would like you to think about and answer. You will comment on the blog so that other people can read your ideas and we can work together as a group. Be respectful and responsible.

Once you've got your Ning page set up, you can continue your work on the web design.

http://rhcastro5.ning.com

http://rhcastro6.ning.com

Current Events 4/1/10

Objectives:
“I will read and research current events.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

Remember to determine what type of NEWSWORTHY category each person/event could be classified as.

Is there conflict or action? Is it timely or novelty (new or unique)? Does it 'impact' a lot of people? Is it close (proximity) or is it about someone important (prominence)? It could be more than one category.

Describe how this current event might be important to you. Explain why or why not.

1. What legislation did President Obama sign into law this week that will directly affect many current high school students? (HINT: It was part of the health care bill but isn’t related to health care.)

2. Name the four teams in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. Name the states where the teams are from.

3. Why are nine Massachusetts teens facing charges related to the death of a 15-year-old girl from their high school?

4. To what country did President Obama pay a surprise visit last weekend?

5. Some will celebrate Easter Sunday, but what other religious observance began this week?

Creating a news website for Castro

We're going to explore iWeb to design our own Castro news site.

• Open iWeb by finding it on your dock or by clicking on the spotlight in the top right corner of your computer.
  
• Explore iWeb. Take a look at the templates.
  
• Imagine redesigning Castro Cougar Courier to look the way you want it to look.
• Take a look at Atkinson. They use iWeb to create their news website.
  
• We will use elements that we have been using this semester: articles, photos, video.

We will compare and contrast other web sites to ours.

• Take a look at other news websites and decide what sections you want for the Castro news site.
• Look at CNN.com, ESPN.com and more.
  

First task: Create a front page for Castro.

• Think about what do you want people to see first.
• What information should go on the front page.
• You will need writing and photos.

Next: We will create four pages.

• Each page can be something different.
  
• Remember who, what, when, where, why.
  
• Remember what makes something newsworthy: conflict, action, timeliness, novelty, impact, proximity, prominence.
  

Analyzing others' work respectfully

Objective: I will be able to analyze student-created videos and PSAs by deciding if they keep me interested, I learn something and they have a focused topic.

Directions: Please type and discuss your thoughts about the videos. Be respectful and school appropriate. I will be checking your work at the end of our class (remember good time management).

• Open Word
• Click on Table
• Click insert, and table
• Make a table with 3 columns and 4 rows
• In the first top row, type "Title of Video."
• In the second top row, type "Good"
• In the third top row, type "Need to Change"
• Select three videos to analyze.
• Type in what you like or what needs to change
• Think of 3 good things and 3 things to change for each video.
• Use full sentences. Discuss fully WHY you think it is good and WHY you would like to change it.
  

Castro Cougar Courier
Borman Broadcast
Cartwright Community
Downs Dispatch
Harris Headlines

Friday 3/26/10

Friday's Objectives

1. Finish your PSA. Make sure I check it.

2. Finish your current events. Make sure you are including everything you need. Full sentences. Source. Newsworthiness.

3. Castro News. This could either be typed on Word or a new iMovie presentation.

Current Events 3/24/10

Objectives:
“I will read and research current events.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

Remember to determine what type of NEWSWORTHY category each person/event could be classified as.

Is there conflict or action? Is it timely or novelty (new or unique)? Does it 'impact' a lot of people? Is it close (proximity) or is it about someone important (prominence)? It could be more than one category.

1. What country’s leader met with President Obama Tuesday, seeking to ease recent tensions between his country and the U.S.?
Extra Credit: What is this leader’s name?

2. Where did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other members of the Cabinet go this week to help that country with an increasingly violent drug trade, especially at its border?

3. Of course the biggest news this week was President Obama signing what historic bill?

4. However, not everyone was happy with this bill passing. What have 14 states done to block its enforcement?

5. What government official used an inappropriate word without realizing the microphone was on Tuesday?

6. To what country does Google now direct its Chinese search users to avoid government censors?

7. What will officially launch April 3 that has app developers gearing up to introduce new software just for it?

Castro News

What is going on at your school?

What have you observed/seen/heard?

Is there conflict? Action? Something new?

Write two paragraphs. Include quotes from a friend in class if you can.

When you think you are finished, go back and read your story again. Double-check it for errors, spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentences that make sense.

Then you can go take a picture that will enhance your story.

Review your school's news website:

Borman Broadcast
Cartwright Community
Downs Dispatch
Castro Courier
Harris Headlines

Public Service Announcement (PSA)

What is a PSA?
PSAs are intended to let people know about specific issues. The most common topics of PSAs are health and safety.

What do PSAs do?

• Gets the viewer's attention
• Convinces the viewer that they can make a difference
• Makes every word and image count
• Uses emotions to compel your viewer
• Clearly calls the viewer to action

What are some examples of PSAs?

• Drug Abuse Prevention
  
• Nutrition
• Gun Violence
• High School Dropout Prevention
• Stop Bullying
• Global Warming
• Youth Voter Participation
• Hearing Loss
• Wearing your seat belt

Source: http://www.ivieawards.org/categories/psa/psa.html

Guidelines for your PSA:

• be serious
• have a clear message
• be no longer than 30-45 seconds
• have important information
• have accurate information
• use someone who looks believable
• use someone famous (but does not have to be)
• use someone who is likeable and respected
• use someone who can act ( is credible)
• use someone who is dressed appropriately for the part he is playing
• give statistics (when appropriate, e.g. number of people that die because they were not wearing seatbelts)

Source: TeacherNet

Assignment:
Create your own PSA. It could be about one of the topics listed above or you could make it about something here at school.

• What do you want people to know?

Things you will need:

• Research from the internet (remember where you found it)
  
• Photos that you take or from the internet
  
• You will need to write out what you are going to say and how you are going to say it.
• Video
• Use iMovie to produce your PSA

Objectives:
Students will be able to discuss topics that affect them and others and give information through the use of PSAs and iMovie. Students will be able to analyze topics and create ways to get a specific message out to others through the use of PSAs and the iMovie editing process.

Interviewing and Listening

For your interview, you will work in groups of two or three.

• Write down observations of about your partner and write at least seven open-ended questions (not YES or NO questions).
  
• Ask the questions to your partner.
  
• While asking the open-ended questions, think about two follow-up questions and two challenge questions.
• Ask your follow-up questions and the challenge questions.
• Write an article about your partner based only on your observations and what was said during the interview.
• Take pictures or video that will enhance your interview.
• Consider the aspects of journalism in your interview. Does your partner have a story that involves conflict, action, novelty, prominence, impact?

Objectives: (Language) The students will be able to discover new information by asking their partner's initial questions, demonstrating active listening and asking follow-up/challenge questions.

(Content) The students will be able to write questions, actively listen and write a story based on an interview. Students will be able to extend their interview by using pictures and video.

Standards: Writing S1C4: Editing Identify punctuation, spelling, and grammar and usage errors in the draft.
Journalism 34.7a Conduct an interview, 34.9a Demonstrate improvisational skills, 21.4 Practice techniques to involve each member of the team, 21.5 Demonstrate teamwork


What you should have completed:

A three-paragraph article about your partner, including quotes. Your article should have a beginning, middle and end. Check for correct grammar and spelling. Include pictures or video after you finish your written article.

Photojournalism Survey

Please write your thoughts about your first quarter in photojournalism.

1. What was your favorite part of class?

2. What was you least favorite part of class?

3. What would you like to do in the last quarter of school?

4. What would you like to do in this class to help you prepare for high school?

5. What would you like to do in this class to help you have a great end to 8th grade?

Email me your thoughts please.

Current Events 3/4/10

Objectives:
“I will read and research current events.”

“I will study articles for good writing techniques.”

Please use full sentences and check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

List your sources. (Where did you find the answer?)

Remember to determine what type of NEWSWORTHY category each person/event could be classified as.

• Is there conflict or action? Is it timely or novelty (new or unique)? Does it 'impact' a lot of people? Is it close (proximity) or is it about someone important (prominence)? It could be more than one category.

Current Events Questions:

1. The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.8 billion last year, partly due to e-mail and the recession. What is one service it says it might have to cut?

2. Where was the earthquake Saturday that registered 8.8, one of the largest ever measured?

3. Although that country needs medical personnel, it also had to send troops to some hard-hit cities to deal with what?

4. The Olympics ended Sunday with which country winning the most medals?

5. What comedian is now back on late night television after an unsuccessful run in an earlier time slot?

6. What well-known comic book character is going to face real-world problems in the issue that comes out this week when he loses his day job as a photographer?

Question of the Day, Part III

Discuss your thoughts on hard work.

What do you think it means to work hard? When you work hard, what do you get?
What happens when you don't work hard? What about people who don't work hard, but still get good things. Have you seen or heard of that happening? Can you search for a story about someone not working hard and getting something good? Can you find a story about someone working hard and getting something good?

Use full sentences.
If you search for stories on news websites, list your sources.
Check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Email me your two paragraphs.

Question of the Day, Part II

Thank you for responding to yesterday's questions about tests.

Today's Topic: Music

Please write two paragraphs about music.

Here are some questions to think about.

What music do you listen to?
Why do you think you listen to it?
Do you like the words, the tune or the beat?
Do you listen to a certain kind of music because everyone else does?
Do you think you will still listen to the same kind of music 10 years from now?

Write two paragraphs. Full sentences.
Please edit your grammar, punctuation and thoughts.

Email me your two paragraphs.

Grammar and Testing

Open WORD

Write one paragraph about why tests might be good
Write at least three details explaining why

Write one paragraph about why tests might be bad
Write at least three details explaining why

Email me your two paragraphs.

When you finish, go to:

http://www.newsroom101.com/

Find NEWSROOM EXERCISES

Click on SET 1

Do Newsroom 1 through 5 and the Newsroom 1-5 Review

Current Events 2/25

This week’s quiz is NAMES IN THE NEWS. Match the newsmaker with his or her description.

Also, determine what type of NEWSWORTHY category each person/event could be classified as. Is it conflict? Is it novelty? Is it something else? It could be more than one category.

Remember to list your source. Where did you find the information?

1. Alexander Haig

2. Apolo Ohno

3. Tiger Woods

4. Joseph Stack

5. Lindsey Vonn

6. Najibullah Zazi

7. Dick Cheney

8. Akio Toyoda



a. Terrorist suspect who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to detonate explosives in the U.S.

b. Executive who tells Congress he accepts personal responsibility for his car company’s recent problems

c. Athlete who publicly apologized this week for his previous behavior

d. Former Secretary of State who died this week

e. Skier who has won Olympic medals despite a bruised shin

f. Athlete who became the winter Olympian to win the most medals ever

g. Politician recovering after what was apparently a mild heart attack

H. Texas man who allegedly crashed his plane into an IRS office

Is it Newsworthy?

Part One: Using the dictionary on the computer or dictionary.com, look up and write definitions for these words.

Conflict
Action
Timeliness
Novelty
Impact
Proximity
Prominence

Part Two: Discuss with a partner what these words mean to you. Write definitions in your own words or give examples from your own life.

Part Three: Take pictures (or find pictures - remember to list your source) defining each of these words in terms of news here at Castro. For example, for prominence, you might take a picture of Mr. Pina, or a student who might be prominent for some reason. Explain your picture.

Part Four: Put your pictures and your writing (captions) into Pages or Powerpoint to create a final project.

Event Writing

Imagine an event that you would like to go to as a journalist: a sporting event, a concert, a fashion show...

Who would you talk to? What would you ask them? Do you think you would be able to talk to someone famous? What would happen at this event? Who is there? When is it?

Describe the event in three paragraphs.

examples:

I’m here at Las Vegas it’s really nice out here. I came here to see Justin Bieber’s first concert and take pictures and put them in a magazine and write about Justin’s first concert. Im outside people are waiting for the doors to open in 15min. I'm also taking pictures of the people how their screaming. Some of them are saying we love you Justin and others are just screming so loud. People are going crazy they can’t wait to see Justin Bieber. In 3 more minutes the doors open so people can go in and sit. The doors open the people got in a line and started going in. Every body has a sit it’s really packed of people. I’m sitting down at the closest sits because I need to be some where were I can see perfectly so the pictures can come out good. Justin comes out people start screaming. I start taking pictures Justin’s all saying thank you thank you. He starts signing One time from that song he starts signing rest of his songs , Favorite girl, Common denominator, Love me, Bigger, Baby , Down to earth, and First dance. It’s nice that I got to met Justin Bieber because when the concert was over I was the only one left there and he came up to me and started talking about his self. It was I good loud day today I got Justin Bieber pictures. So im ready to start the magazine. I finished the magazine it came out really good.

example2:

I am at fashion week in New York. A fashion show is about to go on. I won a contest to receive the chance to be in the front row and take pictures of the models. I also get interview a model of my choice. I’m so excited for this wonderful experience. My parents are so proud that I choose this career.

I’m sitting in the front row getting ready for waiting for the 1^st model to come out. Then she comes out in this very co tour outfit. The clothing was a wild theme and the runway was oddly shaped. While the show was going on and I was taking pictures all I would see is flash after flash. The show was so exhilarating.

Interviewing Tyra Banks and it felt like such a rush. She acted kind towards me. She was respectful and answered my questions with ease. It was a great experience. Tyra even gave me her phone number to call her.

example3:

BEFORE THE CONCERT:

I’m in Arizona’s top concert place. I can’t believe it! I got the privilege of interviewing rapper T.I. Many young and older teens love this rap star. T.I. was and still is my favorite artist. I am so grateful that I get a chance to meet him. Good thing I became a journalist.

DURING THE CONCERT:

The fans are going wild. All you hear is “T.I.! T.I.!” It sounds like the fans love him. His music is awesome. It’s very popular. I’m going to interview him after the concert. I feel very lucky to do this.

AFTER THE CONCERT:

In just a few moments I will get a chance to meet and interview T.I.

He is very nice, very polite. I found out lots of things I didn’t know about. The fans will be happy to hear some of these facts. I didn’t know his full name was Clifford ‘tip’ Harris. I’m glad I got this opportunity.