-- 5. the print world
task:
in a really progressive
school, newspapers -- and -- Internet
Newsgroups would be the textbook because it is filled with "the
curriculum of life."
Science stories are easy to
find but sometimes they aren't well written.
Your job is to find three
science-related stories - and rewrite the lead paragraph - twice.
Attach the story and your
re-write paragraphs to a piece of paper.
Don't just use the same exact words they used –
read the whole
story and
perhaps come up with an entirely new lead.
Be creative. Yes, type or
word process this assignment, too.
rationale:
Your writing skills ( or lack thereof ) will greatly influence
children,
parents and peers in the opinions
they form about school related issues.
Reading words
is different than hearing words.
Newspapers invite the reader
to re-read for clarity –
and perhaps re-read days later
after musing over the concepts presented.
Remember, you can access
newspapers from my home page.
The writing skills -- and
biases -- of the reporter influence the opinion the reader forms. Later in this
course we will examine the "science process skill" -- controlling
variables -- and apply them to journalism.
Practice makes perfect. You learn to write by --- writing.
And speaking of writing
skills --- look here ---
communicating: short language flow: dragnet (tvee)
communicating:
loquacious language flow: w.f. buckley
(writer)
communicating:
bob greene's column: writing that perfect lead
paragraph
if you want to --- skip this
--- skip this
and
do one of the optional assignments instead
10/26r/95
-- 12/29f/95 - 6/21f/96 -- 8/21w/96 - 2/5f/99
It
is now 6/14/2001 – a dozen years since last changing this page.
Look
at the first sentence – with iPADS and computers – I was
saying long ago –
what
schools would be like . . .