Broadcasting AGENDA : CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 1. Chart Interview 2. Course Expectations 3. THE NAME GAME 4. Equipment 5. Radio Waves 6. Visual Representation of Summer - working in a small group, you and your members will compose a video representing your collective summer experiences, which will be set to music. Example -

Critical thinking and media literacy . In 1938, people were enjoying the Golden Age of Radio. (The first commercial TV broadcasts would not debut until 1941.) Radio -- along with newspapers and newsreels that were shown in movie theaters -- was an accessible source of news and entertainment. People believed what they heard on the radio.  Talk about: how DO YOU use books, television, and the Internet as sources of information?  Ask: Do you believe everything you read? Have you ever been fooled into believing that something you saw on TV or read on the Internet was real when it was not?

Critical thinking and media literacy  GROUP WORK;  Using your Smart Phone, investigate the following topics on the internet and report to the class on the subjects:  Mankato, Minnesota Home Page  Feline Reactions to Bearded Men  Republic of Molossia  Case Analysis Of A Historic Killer Tornado Event In Kansas On 10 June 1938

Background Info – the impact of radio  The year was Television was in the experimental stages (the number of TVs in the United States numbered in the low hundreds), but people frequently gathered around radios to listen to the popular shows of the time.  On the night before Halloween in 1938, "The Mercury Theater on the Air" radio program presented an adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds. At the start of the broadcast, and several times throughout it, an announcer made it clear that the broadcast was fictional, but many people missed those announcements. Another popular radio show, "The Chase and Sanborn Hour," aired at the same time as Mercury Theater, so many people tuned into that popular program and switched from it during commercial or musical breaks to listen to the "Mercury Theater" production.  Can you imagine tuning into the middle of a broadcast and hearing dialogue such as what is on the next slide?

The War of the Worlds  Listening: get a flavor of the broadcast so you too might sense what people were listening to that evening.  PHILLIPS [RADIO ANNOUNCER]: I see, do you still think it's a meteor, Professor? PIERSON [SCIENTIST REPORTING FROM A SITE WHERE AND OBJECT HAS LANDED]: I don't know what to think. The metal casing is definitely extraterrestrial... not found on this earth. Friction with the earth's atmosphere usually tears holes in a meteorite. This thing is smooth and, as you can see, of cylindrical shape. PHILLIPS: Just a minute! Something's happening! Ladies and gentlemen, this is terrific! This end of the thing is beginning to flake off! The top is beginning to rotate like a screw! The thing must be hollow! VOICES: She's movin'! Look, the darn thing's unscrewing! Keep back, there! Keep back, I tell you! Maybe there's men in it trying to escape! It's red hot, they'll burn to a cinder! Keep back there. Keep those idiots back! (SUDDENLY THE CLANKING SOUND OF A HUGE PIECE OF FALLING METAL) VOICES: She's off! The top's loose! Look out there! Stand back! PHILLIPS: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed... Wait a minute! Someone's crawling out of the hollow top. Someone or... something. I can see peering out of that black hole two luminous disks.. are they eyes? It might be a face. It might be...

WOW  Do you think you could have been fooled by the radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds"? Why might you have been fooled?  Needless to say, many who tuned in without hearing the announcer's introduction, went into a panic. The New York Times, reported panic: " A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds," led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York”

The War of the Worlds  Group work - Divide up the script and groups rehearse their sections of it. Present your readings. I encourage you to even add sound effects to their presentations.

Critical Thinking  History and Listening. Listen to some of the broadcasts that were part of the Golden Age of Radio at Old Radio World

How to Write a Script for Radio  Step 1- Outline your radio program. Write a strong opening scene that establishes setting. This immediately engages your audience. Include music and sound effects that would be found at the beginning of each show if it were a series.  Step 2 - Write your script in the proper format. The name of your show should be written at the top of the script, along with the running time and other information – see sample on back. Format your script properly. Include speaking characters, action and sound effects.  Step 3 - Understand radio program conventions. SFX stands for sound effects. Write this in all capitals and underline it any time you have a sound you want in your show. Write the sound in your script. Use ANNCR any time the announcer is narrating. This is not done in the sample, but today it is a common abbreviation. Use a double dash any time you want a slight pause. Capitalize speaking characters, and write their dialogue on the right.  Step 4 - Focus your script to include strong sound effects that attract your audience's attention, engage the listeners with an entertaining presentation and leave them excited.  Step 5 - Time your script when you've finished writing it. If the script is supposed to be 5 minutes, be sure it's exactly 5 minutes.  Step 6 - Present your show. I’ll record your show and publish it on our class site.