Unit Four : Earthquakes Period Four: Writing

Fun Writing Write an article about a special event that happened in your hometown. 1.What happened? 2.When did it happen? 3.Where? 4.Who took part? 5.Why?

Rubric of Assessing Fun Writing Strong Moderately Strong 12–15 Average 9-11 Moderately Weak 5-8 Weak 1 完成题目规定的任务。 ___/20 2 覆盖所有内容要点。 ___/20 3 应用了较多的语法结构和词汇。 ___/20 4 语法结构和词汇的错误比较少 ___/20 5. 有效地使用语句间的连接成分，使全文结构紧 凑。 ___/20 Total Points:

Writing Task You are going to write an article for a newspaper about a special event that happened in your hometown. That means you will write a newspaper story.

1.Usually a short story begins with small details and includes details later. A newspaper does the opposite. (Both kinds of stories use paragraph with the main idea.) 2.In a good newspaper story it is objective. In a short story it is subjective. The differences between newspaper stories and short stories

Before you write a newspaper story, you should write an outline. An outline will prepare you to write a better story.

A newspaper outline should have: 1.A headline 2.A list of main ideas 3.A list of important details

Headline: _______________________________ Paragraph 1 Main idea:_____________________________ Detail 1: ______________________________ Detail 2: ______________________________ Detail 3: ______________________________ …. Paragraph 2 Main idea:_____________________________ Detail 1: ______________________________ Detail 2: ______________________________ Detail 3: ______________________________ ….

Ex.(P31) Read the example of a newspaper story and find the headline, main ideas and details of each paragraph.

A newspaper story needs a headline to attract the reader’s attention since the reader may not have bought the newspaper before they read the headline. Headline is very important.

Good headlines 武装分子枪杀 29 人，脆弱的和平破灭 中国拟在 2006 年发射探月飞船 1.Militants Kill 29; Weak Peace Shattered 2.China First Moon Probe to Blast Off in Girl of 18 after Threat with Bread Knife 4.NATO ， EC to Talk on Terrorism 5.Four US Troops Charged with busing POWs in Iraq 餐刀威逼之下， 18 岁少女遭强暴 北约与欧盟就反恐进行磋商 美 4 士兵被控告在伊拉克虐待战俘 POW= prisoner of war 战俘

Principles Of Good Headlines Clarity Fresh Diction Conversational Specific & accurate Its tone matches the story In tune with reader expectations

Now write a headline for your newspaper story.