Wednesday - Period 2 & Friday - Period 4

In these lessons you will undertake internet research on a topic/issue/person that will be the subject of a feature article you will write.  You need to gather facts, anecdotes, statistics, images that will assist you.  As you locate the information you require, put each one into your Livebinder.

Monday - Period 3

Feature Articles:

• Study of facts, quotes and anecdotes
• Comprehension task
• Feature Article 'Recipe' examined.

Thursday - Period 2

Feature Articles:  definition and elements of a feature article examined.

In this lesson you will select a feature article from your newspaper and summarise the details of it using the headings provided in class.  This activity is to demonstrate your understanding of the difference between a news report and a feature article, as well as identification of its parts.

Monday - Period 3 & Wednesday - Period 2

News Reports:
In these lessons you will compose a news report using the inverted pyramid structure.  Using the plane crash incident in your wider reading novel, 'Hatchet', you will begin by planning and organising the information that your article will contain using the planning diagram below.  You will also need to give attention to your:

• lead paragraphs
• byline
• headline

Once your draft is written, you need to proofread and edit it before publishing a final copy using Microsoft Word.  Mrs Lans will model using columns and tables to assist you in your setting out.

News Report Planning Landscape

Thursday - Period 2

Deconstruction of a news report - using the article hyperlinked below, we will today look at the inverted pyramid structure, lead paragraphs, and jargon.

In examining headlines we will look at puns (a play on words) and revise alliteration and assonance.  You will compose a new headline for the Daily Telegraph article.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw-act/boys-13-crash-stolen-van-into-hotel/story-e6freuzi-1225901410639

Monday - Period 5 & Tuesday - Period 4

Activities:

• Sequencing activity: sorting details of an incident from most important to least important
• Inverted pyramid structure video (below) and diagram studied.
• Identification of parts of the inverted pyramid in a news report of your choosing.
• Identification of the lead paragraphs - who, what, when, where, why, how