Communications & media
Better Interview Questions: Open, Closed and Leading
Students sort sample questions into open, closed and leading types, rewrite weak questions, write follow-ups, and plan an interview with an invented bus driver.
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Can You Trust This Source? Rating Five Sources
Students rate five invented sources about one school claim, match key source-evaluation terms, and plan how to verify a rumor.
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Fact or Opinion? News Brief vs. Editorial
Students compare a neutral news brief with an editorial, sort statements into fact and opinion, and rewrite opinion as checkable fact.
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News Values and the Upside-Down Pyramid
Students match news situations to the six news values, sort facts into the inverted pyramid, and write a short news story in pyramid order.
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Press Ethics and Plagiarism: Six Case Studies
Students read short ethics cases about plagiarism, gifts, photo editing, privacy and corrections, then write a correction notice and a staff rule.
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The 5 Ws and H: From Fact Sheet to Lead
Students pull the 5 Ws and H from an invented fact sheet, compare sample leads, and write their own lead sentence.
Communications & media
Tight Headlines, Smart Captions and Copyediting
Students choose and write headlines, write captions from photo descriptions, and fix errors in sample sentences as a copy editor would.
Communications & media
Yearbook Theme and Spread Planner
Students learn yearbook vocabulary, do a page-count budget for an invented 160-page book, and plan a theme and sketch a spread on paper.