Is your story worth telling?

Objective: Students will analyze the seven ideas that help make a story newsworthy by defining the words and creating their own definitions using a power point slide show.

Program: Power Point
Number of slides: 7
Google: Images and definitions
Use your brain: Come up with your own definition.

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

These words help determine whether a story is interesting, newsworthy or important. If a story does not have these elements, your audience may not be likely to listen to your story.

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: Find a picture online that helps describe the word. Explain your picture.

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