Newspaper Project Checklist—Wow, this is long, but it sure is useful.
I know that I need to have a feature article, a news article, and an editorial.
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I know that I must start from scratch on two of these articles and can import one that I
have already written and revised.
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I know that I need a substantive, meaningful quotation for each article.
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I have revised article 1 that I have already written, using Mrs. S’s comments.
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I have decided a topic for article 2 and determined whom I must interview.
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I have decided a topic for article 3 and determined whom I must interview.
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I have written interview questions for article 2 personal interview(s).
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I have written interview questions for article 3 personal interview(s).
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I have completed my article 2, including interview responses, incorporating
the responses in my article as needed to support my reporting or opinion.
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My news article begins with the five W’s in a hard news lead in one or
two sentences.
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My news article does not have any opinion words, except those provided
by someone I interviewed, either in indirect quotations or direct quotations.
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My news article is organized with most important information first and
moves to least important information. The date is not first.
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I have completed my article 3, including interview responses, incorporating
the responses in my article to support my reporting or opinion.
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My feature article begins with a catchy lead that includes a link to the
person I am featuring.
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Somewhere in my feature article I provide the five W’s about my featured
person or the event(s) being discussed, but not in the first paragraph.
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My feature does not have any opinions except those offered in quotations or
provided by someone else and summarized by me.
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My editorial begins with a catchy lead and has my opinion in the last line of
the first paragraph.
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My editorial has three reasons for my opinion or three reasons describing a
problem that I am trying to solve.
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My editorial offers a solution to a problem or restates my opinion and provides
support for it, either with personal experience, quotations from authorities, or
statistics.
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I have completed my Egypt ad or an editorial cartoon.
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My Egypt ad includes the following:
A prominently displayed (highlighted or colored) business name
A person or authority in charge
Three propaganda techniques to sell my product or service
A BRIEF description of the service, its location, and pricing
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My editorial cartoon follows these requirements:
It relates to my editorial.
It is drawn dark enough to see when scanned.
It uses two of the editorial cartoon techniques we studied
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I have a picture for two of my stories.
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The quality of my pictures is good.
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I have a flag.
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I have an index, a rail, or a banner.
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I have cutlines, using sentences with complete names identifying people and
events, for each of my story pictures.
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I have a heading for my second page.
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I have a cryptic sentence headline for each article.
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I have only capitalized the first word and proper words in my headline.
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I have read aloud my articles to be sure that they make sense.
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I am proud of my work.
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I will not submit my work unless I am pleased with it.
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If I forgot something, it is not Mrs. Sutton’s fault because she is the bomb-diggity. _____
(Check it just for good will.)