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