1. Warm Up—apostrophes Monday, March 6th, 2017
Look carefully at where/how the apostrophes change between these similar sentences:
     Example 1A: The boy’s game was fun!
     Example 1B: The boys’ games were fun!
     Example 2A: The girl’s book is heavy!
     Example 2B: The girls’ books are heavy!
What is the difference??
Examples A are talking about a singular boy or girl possessing something.
Examples B are talking about more than one girl or boy possessing something.
*Write 2 of your own--one singular, one plural. You’ll have 4 sentences total!

2. Unit 4: Writing for the News 4-4 Working on our LEDEs
5 Ws + Hook = LEDE

3. Practice LEDE #1 The assigned story: most interesting thing you did this weekend
Example:
WHO: Hillary Morgan Bernard and her husband
WHAT: had dinner with friends
WHERE: at their friends’ home in Charlotte, NC
WHEN: the evening of Saturday, March 4th, 2017
WHY: to celebrate a friend’s birthday
HOW: traveled to their friends’ house to spend time with them

4. Practice LEDE #1 Example: Choose your hook!
WHO: Hillary Morgan Bernard and her husband
WHAT: had dinner with friends
WHERE: at their friends’ home in Charlotte, NC
WHEN: the evening of Saturday, March 4th, 2017
WHY: to celebrate a friend’s birthday
HOW: traveled to their friends’ house to spend time with them
Choose your hook!
Example choice: quotation hook (You can pick something else!)

5. Practice LEDE #1—put it together
Example 5 Ws:
WHO: Hillary Morgan Bernard and her husband, Travis
WHAT: had dinner with friends
WHERE: at their friends’ home in Charlotte, NC
WHEN: the evening of Saturday, March 4th, 2017
WHY: to celebrate a friend’s birthday
HOW: traveled to their friends’ house to spend time with them
+ LEDE: QUOTATION HOOK
= LEDE
“Surprising her with her favorite gourmet pizza was the best part!” excitedly reported Mrs. Hillary Bernard after she and her husband, Travis Bernard, enjoyed a birthday dinner at their friends’ home in Charlotte, NC the evening of Saturday, March 4th, 2017.