Journalism+20+Fall+2015

__**Monday, January 4th to Friday, January 22nd, 2016**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can recognize and appreciate the role of journalism in the contemporary society and and in their personal lives
 * We can recognize and explore the ways in which print broadcast media create and present a message
 * We can develop the speaking, listening, reading, writing, viewing, writing, and representing skills needed to create various print publications and broadcast productions
 * We can complete and present a final project
 * We can recognize the value of teamwork and co-operation

__**How we will learn it**__ For the next 15 hours, you will have the opportunity to develop a piece of journalism that is of interest to you. The most important thing is that your project must answer a question. What that question looks like, is going to be up to you. You can choose any question that you want to explore! This will require you thinking, researching, interviewing, and documenting.

How your final project looks is going to be up to you. You could choose some of the following to present the answers to your question:


 * Editorial
 * Magazine article
 * Documentary
 * TedTalk
 * WebLog
 * Designing a webpage that shares your findings
 * Talk to Mr. Young if you have another way you would like to try this! :)

If you choose to complete a write-up of some kind, we are looking at 4 to 5 pages. If you choose to do a presentation we are looking at 7-10 minutes, including use of media. Please do not let your piece media (if it is not your own, ie. YouTube) take up all of your presentation time. If you create the piece of media to show to the class, you may count that toward your 7-10 minutes.

We are aiming to complete all projects and presentations by Friday, January 22nd as exam week will be following week and you will be studying for your tests.

Please let me know if you have any questions at all, ASK!!! Let's explore together and have some fun!

Have a great rest of the week!



__**Monday, December 7th to Friday, December 10th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can view and discuss the themes of documentaries
 * We can discuss the tools used to created documentaries
 * We can analyze the concepts used by the documentary film makers in order to get their opinions/thoughts/facts across to an audience
 * We can begin to create a style of documentary for our class project

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, December 7th and Tuesday, December 8th**__: Finish up working on our "Humans of New York/Cornerstone/Moose Jaw" project. Please turn into me when completed!

__**Wednesday, December 9th to Friday, December 11th**__: Today we will be looking at the documentary "Bully". During the course of the movie we will look at the following questions, as a class:

1. What are the themes that the documentary has? 2. What are the stories that are trying to be addressed? 3. How do the filmmakers use certain tools and techniques to make us care about what is going on within the documentary 4. How do we distinguish between what is fact and what is opinion when it comes to the messages being delivered to us within a documentary?

We will be stopping throughout the documentary to discuss.

Next week we will continue with another documentary and start discussing our plans for after Christmas break!

Only a few more sleeps left until it's vacation time!

Have a great weekend!



__**Monday, November 9th to Friday, December 4th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can speak to share thoughts, opinions, and feelings
 * We can listen with purpose and care for ideas
 * We can recognize the importance of to interview, research, and reporting
 * We can recognize the impact of effective photography
 * We can take effective photographs that help tell a stories
 * We can create different models of photo journalism

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, November 9th to Friday, December 4th**__**:**

During this unit, some of us will be at different place, as we journey along. Here are the things we are going to be looking at and your responsibilities:

1. We will all view the documentary called "Teenage Paparazzo" and use it to have class discussions about the following:


 * The job of a Paparazzi
 * Why do they take pictures?
 * Is what they do a good thing or a bad thing?
 * What lengths they go to to get photographs?
 * Is it an invasion of privacy?
 * What types of images are used?

2. After we complete the documentary, you will be given the opportunity to become your own Paparazzi as you take pictures of the grade 9 class and take what we have learned from the documentary and create stories based on the photographs that you collect. Here's what you need to accomplish:


 * Take as many pictures as you can during the time you are given
 * Choose 2 of those pictures what you believe you could write stories about (remember they don't have to be true)
 * Write the two stories about what is happening in the photograph (each article will be short, half a page single spaced)
 * Make sure to turn in the two stories along with the two pictures to Mr. Young

3. The next form of photo journalism we will look at is going to take a different spin than just being a paparazzi. Your job is going to be to tell a story that is told to you by three people. This means you coming up with some very interesting types of questions that they could respond too. For example, if you look at the folks from Humans of New York, these are journalists that their sole purpose is to interview people about their lives. Between their website, Facebook page, and Instagram account, they receive millions of hits each day. Here is your job


 * Explore the website Humans of New York to see how the photo journalists have set up their subjects and have written their articles
 * Once you have explored, you are going to need to think of 3 people that you are going to interview and photograph to get your articles. This could be anyone of your choosing as long as their photograph isn't taken from snapchat or any other social media site. Your job is to get the photograph as you are interviewing.
 * Remember that is up to you to take the photograph that will be used in your interview. Will it be a close-up, profile, hands, legs, or something else that will give your article a deeper understanding.
 * Once your interviews are completed you will need to complete the write-ups. How you set this up is going to be up to you AS LONG AS YOUR ARTICLE IS SUBSTANTIAL. I'm thinking around half a page to a full page for each.
 * These pictures and articles will be printed off in color and we want to make sure that they article and picture are clear. If we have to print the picture off, separately, we can make that happen.
 * Have some fun with it! :)

Have an awesome weekend!



__**Monday, October, 26th to Friday, November 6th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can learn the steps to writing a review of a certain restaurant, product, service industry, etc.
 * We can back up our opinions with first hand knowledge
 * We can discuss with others about their experience and translate that into our article/video
 * We can create a piece that reviews a restaurant, product, service industry, etc.
 * We can use our language skills to describe, in detail for our viewer/reader, our experience
 * We can use our proofreading skills to edit ours and others work

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, Octobe****r**__ **__26th__:** Today we are going to be starting to look at our product/food/restaurant/service review.

We are going to start of with the art of describing so everyone HAVE A COOKIE!

We are going to be spending the first 10 minutes of class writing a simple paragraph description of the cookie you are eating. Making sure you hit on:


 * Physical appearance
 * Texture
 * Taste

After a few minutes we will come back, as a class, to share our descriptions.

I found a few resources for you to use on how to write food/product services so you can begin your research there. You are also going to be provided with $10.00, from me, in order for you to find a food/product/service that you can gather research from. This $10 is for you to use in order to find something to write about. You may go with something that you already know or you can use it to try something that you normally wouldn't spend your own money on.

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It is going to be up to you to decide whether you are doing a written article or a video to review your product. Make sure to do the proper research to find out how you should be going about it (USE THE RESOURCES ABOVE!!!).

We will be working on this for the rest of the week. If you need anything from me (ipods, resources, etc.) please let me know!

__**Tuesday, October 27th to Friday, November 6th**__: Time to work on your pieces. Remember to ask lots of questions if you don't understand! :)

Have a great weekend!



__**Tuesday, October 20th to Friday, October 23rd, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can learn the steps to writing a review of a certain restaurant, product, service industry, etc.
 * We can back up our opinions with first hand knowledge
 * We can discuss with others about their experience and translate that into our article/video
 * We can create a piece that reviews a restaurant, product, service industry, etc.
 * We can use our language skills to describe, in detail for our viewer/reader, our experience

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, October 20th and Wednesday, October 21st**__: We will use this class time to go over our LIVE interviews with the people we chose to interview with.

__**Thursday, October 22nd**__: **FOOD! Do I have your attention? We all love food! Food is good! YAY for food!**

Our job, over the next few classes, is to look at the art of how to create a good review. For this project, you get to decide what you are going to review. For today, I thought it would be a fun idea to look at food...why? Well, we all get hungry and we like to eat good food, not bad food because bad food sucks!

I want you to think about the food that you like to eat. This could range from something that you make yourself to a place ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD that you have eaten at.

Your job today, with a partner or group is to discuss and look for food reviews! You can look for online article or use YouTube to find reviews of some of the restaurants you may have visited.

First, watch the video below! Zagat is an AWESOME site for reviewing some amazing restaurants. See what they say about how to write or report on food and then go and search for yourself. My hope is that you will be able to share some of your findings tomorrow.

I also have a surprise for you as you are going to be creating your own reviews, in the near future. However, I'll save that for when I am back!

Have an awesome rest of your day and TALK FOOD!!!!!

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Some food reviews for you to look at, just to start you off!

ZAGAT Website for FOOD!

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Now, find your own examples!

__**Friday, October 23rd**__: Talk About FOOD! Go over next week's stuff!

Have an awesome weekend!



__**Monday, September 21st to Friday, September 25th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can understand effective news gathering and editing techniques
 * We can understand the importance of research and interviewing
 * We can develop our writing skills
 * We can recognize the importance for journalist of interviewing, researching, and reporting
 * We can conduct an interview skillfully

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, September 21st to Wednesday, September** **23rd**:__ During these classes you will have the opportunity to interview students from the grade 4, 5, and 6 classrooms. Remember the guidelines that we went through last week, AND REMEMBER that this is your first time really interviewing anyone for something that you are going to write. Interviewing takes practice and you get that practice by going through it time and time again.

Once you have gathered all the information that you can from your interviews, it will be up to you to begin writing your piece. Remember that this will be the rough copies. Our goal is to try having these rough copies done for Monday, and then we will be doing some group sharing, partner sharing, and polishing up your pieces before publishing them.

__**Thursday, September 24th and Friday, September 25th**__: Time to work on pulling the information you need from your interviews and begin writing your article. Our aim is to have them done for Monday. However, if you need a little more time, we can go for Tuesday. Let's see where we get to.

Have an awesome weekend!

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__**Monday, September 14th to Friday, September 18th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can understand effective news gathering and editing techniques
 * We can understand the importance of research and interviewing
 * We can develop our writing skills
 * We can recognize the importance for journalist of interviewing, researching, and reporting
 * We can conduct an interview skillfully

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Monday, Septembe**r **14th and Tuesday September 15th**:__ Today, we continued on with looking at different examples of interviews through the use of Barbara Walters interviewing Taylor Swift (YouTube), and looking at two short, written articles and looking at the questions that would have been asked to the interviewee in order for the interviewer to write the article.

Today, we also started into our first assignment and that is for you to write a short article on something that is of interest to you and that you can interview people for. This time we are looking at interviewing some students in grade 4 and 5 so that you can get the best possible answers for your article. Here's what you will need:


 * Decide on a topic that you are going to write about (remember this has to interest you and hopefully the students you are interviewing)
 * Do some research on this topic. What do you know? What are you going to find out? (YouTube, Reading other Articles).
 * Come up with 5 to 6 questions that you are going to ask these students about and how you are going to go about doing that. Remember you can use open and closed questions and your questions may change based on the responses you get from your interviewees
 * Outline how you want to conduct your interview. Will it be a one on one interview, paired interview, group interview. Remember, your interviewees may act different in each situation. You might get some great one on one answers but you might also get some great answers when they are in a group
 * How will you record the interview? You are more than welcome to make notes as you go but it might be a good idea to use your phone in order to get their words, fully. You could also video the interview so that you can see body language. If you are in need of an iPod touch, I HAVE THEM!! PLEASE ASK!!!
 * You may write your introduction now or wait until you do your interviews. Sometimes it's interesting to see where your thoughts are at right now before you do the interviews compared to after you do the interviews



__**Wednesday September 16th and Thursday, September 18th**__: During these days we will have to play our interviews by ear. We know that there is a gym blast for the elementary students on Wednesday and Thursday we have our own activities for welcome week. Let's just see how far we get! :) We can be flexible!



__**Tuesday, September 8th, 2015**__

Hi guys! As you can see, I am gone for today. Round of applause or sad face! :)

What I would like for you to do today is get back into the mind set of of the skill of questioning. There's a video I would like you to view when it comes to being a journalist and asking different kinds of questions. Plus, there's some terminology that we will be using that he uses in the video.

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Once view the video, your job is to go and find an interview (either video or print) that is setup like a conversation **between the interview and the interviewee.** Your job is to view or read this piece and we will be sharing our discoveries tomorrow. You can use anything you wish to whether it be a celebrity interview (Barbara Walters interviewing a celebrity) a local or provincial event (an interview with a business owner, politician, etc.), a tragic event (house fire, car crash, etc.)

1. How does the interview start? What type of introduction? 2. What types of questions are asked? Are they open or are they closed questions? 3. Does the interviewer press for more information in some areas or just goes onto the next question?

The last thing for today, I want you to start thinking of questions that you could ask a group or individual grade 3 and 4 students about things when it comes to media? You can work with a partner on this, if you wish. Any questions will do as we will start zeroing in on them tomorrow.

Have an awesome rest of your day! :)

__**Tuesday, September 1st to Friday, September 4th, 2015**__ __**What are we learning?**__
 * We can respond to a piece of media in our own words
 * We can analyze the underlying message in a piece of media
 * We can question the underlying message in documentary
 * We can think of ways to expand our learning, based on a certain topic

__**How we will learn it**__ __**Tuesday, September** **1st**:__ Hope you all had an AWESOME summer! Today we will go over the course introduction and talk about questioning.

__**Wednesday, September 2nd to Friday, September 4th**__: Today we are going to be starting to look at the skill of questioning and "looking deeper" at issues that we face within society. We are specifically going to be looking the world that the girls live in. We will be viewing the documentary "Miss Representation" and respond to the questions outlined below. Please feel free to download the handout, if needed.


 * __Synopsis__:**
 * //Miss Representation //** is a 2011 American documentary film  written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom .It explores how mainstream media  contribute to the under-representation of women in influential positions by circulating limited and often disparaging portrayals of women .

The film interweaves stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews, to give an inside look at the media and its message. The film’s motto, “You can't be what you can't see,” underscores an implicit message that young women need and want positive role models , and that the media has thus far neglected its unique opportunity to provide them. The film includes a social action campaign to address change in policy, education and call for socially responsible business.

__**Your Task **__:

Respond to the following questions through notes that you make about the documentary. The notes may be in point form or in complete sentences. You can turn them in through emailing, writing, or texting your notes to me.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Who is communicating? (Company? Person? Group?)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> What is being communicated? (message of the documentary)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> To whom is it communicated? (who would be the target audience)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> What medium is used? (documentary style)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> What is the purpose of the communication? To inform or instruct? To persuade? To entertain? Briefly explain your answer

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> How effective is the communication?


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">What would be two questions that you are left with, at the end of the documentary, that you would research further? **