1. Mr. Verlin South Philadelphia High School September 22, 2010

2. Preliminaries  Pre-class (10 classwork points)  Log on.  Browse: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_ articles/20030506tuesday.html http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_ articles/20030506tuesday.html  In a Word document, answer the following questions:  From whose point of view is the article written?  How would you describe the narrator’s tone (attitude)?  On average, how many sentences are there in each paragraph?

3. Review: Creating Word Documents  Launching Word  Common Interface Controls  Title bar  Menu bar  Scroll bar  Insertion point  Task pane  Help

4. Objectives: Writing News Articles  Identify the common characteristics of news writing.  Write news articles about current events in the IT Academy for the first issue of the newsletter.

5. Focus Lesson: Writing News Articles  Common characteristics  Facts  Opinions?  Terminology  Byline  Lead  Sources  Primary  Secondary  Point of View  Group Activity