Exercise One -- Wednesday, August 27th
Open a word document, Put your name on the top. Do exercise one below and them stop and wait for me.
Exercise One
Answer the following questions
Who am I?
What is one thing I really like to do?
When am I my happiest?
Where is the farthest place from here that I have lived?
Where do I live now?
Why do I like to do the thing I mentioned in question 2?
How good are you at that thing you mentioned in question 2?
What you have just completed is a trial in what we call hard news style, or inverted pyramid style.
These are common in hard news stories. You can find them anywhere. They're also referred to as the "5Ws" or "5Ws and an H."
Here's an example
Exercise Two
Open a new tab and go to cnn.com. The lead story this morning is titled "American Killed Fighting for ISIS."
Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/world/meast/syria-american-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
-- Copy and paste the lede, or the lead sentence into your word document
Now, find the following in that lede:
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
Notice that all 5 Ws are usually in a single sentence, or in two short sentences. This is the approach we are trying to teach and master here.
Exercise Three
Look at your sentences from exercise one.
Can you re-write them as a single inverted pyramid sentence?
Review -- Closing Exercise
Key words: Lede, Inverted pryamid openings, hard news openings, what the 5Ws? What is the H?
multi-media news
Do you see how cnn.com is using multi-media approaches?
Open a word document, Put your name on the top. Do exercise one below and them stop and wait for me.
Exercise One
Answer the following questions
Who am I?
What is one thing I really like to do?
When am I my happiest?
Where is the farthest place from here that I have lived?
Where do I live now?
Why do I like to do the thing I mentioned in question 2?
How good are you at that thing you mentioned in question 2?
What you have just completed is a trial in what we call hard news style, or inverted pyramid style.
These are common in hard news stories. You can find them anywhere. They're also referred to as the "5Ws" or "5Ws and an H."
Here's an example
Exercise Two
Open a new tab and go to cnn.com. The lead story this morning is titled "American Killed Fighting for ISIS."
Here is the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/26/world/meast/syria-american-killed/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
-- Copy and paste the lede, or the lead sentence into your word document
Now, find the following in that lede:
Who
What
When
Where
Why
How
Notice that all 5 Ws are usually in a single sentence, or in two short sentences. This is the approach we are trying to teach and master here.
Exercise Three
Look at your sentences from exercise one.
Can you re-write them as a single inverted pyramid sentence?
Review -- Closing Exercise
Key words: Lede, Inverted pryamid openings, hard news openings, what the 5Ws? What is the H?
multi-media news
Do you see how cnn.com is using multi-media approaches?
SECTION Two
Here are some class procedures
-- The 15 minute rule for bathroom breaks
-- rules for using the break pass
-- phone ettiquette
-- how do we end class?
-- food and drink around computers
-- behavior rules
Mr. Vela will review them and then give you the task for writing one lead about the new policies. We will model this together as a class.
Last 15 minutes:
Review your word file.
Make sure your name is on the top of the document.
Save it as: Inverted Pyramid Exercise.
e-mail it to: [email protected]
At 5 minutes to the bell, log off your computer.
Here are some class procedures
-- The 15 minute rule for bathroom breaks
-- rules for using the break pass
-- phone ettiquette
-- how do we end class?
-- food and drink around computers
-- behavior rules
Mr. Vela will review them and then give you the task for writing one lead about the new policies. We will model this together as a class.
Last 15 minutes:
Review your word file.
Make sure your name is on the top of the document.
Save it as: Inverted Pyramid Exercise.
e-mail it to: [email protected]
At 5 minutes to the bell, log off your computer.