Jane Sharp
Introduction
Standards 
Objectives
Activities
Assessment 
Results
Resources


Introduction
Students will learn the basics of writing a feature story, research a feature topic, and write a feature story.  Student work will be published on the school website.

Subject:  Journalism
Topic:  Feature Stories
Grade Level:  High School
Student Lesson name and URL:  http://ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jasharp/student/

 

Standards Addressed
California Challenge 

Language Arts Standards

High School

Standard 4. Writing/Process

The student organizes thoughts and information for writing, develops drafts, and analyzes, revises, and edits work as appropriate for audience and purpose.

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Instructional Objectives
  1. Generate and organize ideas for writing.  
  2. a.  The student will choose (from a teacher-approved list) a topic for research.
  3. b. Students will use library and internet research skills to investigate their topic.
  4. Proofread their own writing or the writing of others, using dictionaries and other resources, including the teacher or peers as appropriate.
  5. Analyze and revise their own work to develop the piece of writing further by adding or deleting details and explanations, clarifying difficult passages, and rearranging words, sentences, and paragraphs to improve meaning.

  6. Evaluate and respond to the critiques of peers and teachers.

  7. Critique the writing of a peer, using a scoring guide that the teacher and class have discussed and developed.

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Student Activities
I.
Introductory Activity
Students will read a feature story from a internet and complete a worksheet evaluating the writing style peculiar to features

Enabling Activities
From a list of teacher-approved topics, each student will choose a person to research, research online and at the library, that person's life, and develop a feature story on the person.  (Students will discover that the teacher has chosen these people specifically for their connections to the Imperial Valley and Yuma area.)  Students will peer edit these features in groups.  Students will respond to peer critiques of their work.  Students will rewrite their work.

Culminating Activity
The feature stories will be compiled and published to the school's web page.
 

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Assessment
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Results
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Web Resources & Supplementary Materials

Introductory Activity
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Enabling Activity
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Culminating Activity
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Calexico High School
1030 Encinas Ave.  Calexico, CA 92231
Jane Sharp jsharp@calexico.k12.ca.us
Last Revised: 07/29/2000 (insert and update last revision date every time you work on this page)