In the first six weeks, we learned basic photography and the layout of the book.
Our next job is to plan the Fall calendar.
Icebreaker assignment: Create a word document and title it "Fall Ladder" with today's date and your name.
1. List all the fall sports currently taking place.
2. List all the fall activities which are taking place and will take place
soon -- Dances,
3. List all the student groups which can currently be photographed.
Time: 25 Minutes
Part II: 25 Minutes -- We'll put this list on the screen. Students should put this in their word files.
How many did you list?
4. Do you think some of these groups would be best photographed in their environments? Practices, for example. Do you think these groups should be photographed in studio, in uniforms with a background?
Part II -- Hard News Writing
One of our tasks is writing about each group. This should be flattering, and accurate at the same time. It will involve the element of news writing, which we will introduce today.
Key words
1. Hard news -- a story which summarizes a news event. It has an
2. inverted pyramid lead -- a standard of news reporting since the mid 1800s. It puts the story climax at the beginning of the piece. It answers several questions: who, what, when, where, why and how. It writes in active voice, and refers to subjects in the third person. It offers descriptions, and does not include the writer's opinions.
Look at this worksheet on inverted pyramid openings for a summary:
3. verb voice -- we have two verb voices
4. active voice -- where the subject of a sentence performs the work, or
5. passive voice -- where the subject is the recipient of the verb's action.
You can shift from active to passive voice easily:
1. The dog bit Mr. Vela (active) Who is the subject?
2. Mr. Vela was bitten by the dog. (passive) Who is the subject.
Active and passive exercise -- 20 minutes total
Active voice (10 minutes)
Write a six to seven sentence description of your morning. No sentence can have more than four words. Use active voice. Here is an example, using my after school routine:
1. Mr. Vela drove home.
2. He walked his dog.
3. He read his texts.
4. He cooked a snack.
Part II (10 minutes
take these short, active-verb sentences about your morning and work them into passive voice.
Turn in your word documents when you are done. You can print them out or e-mail them to:
rafael.vela@