THE FRONT PAGE: CREATING A SUSTAINABLE WORLD
Geography and Literacy Project
Assignment Overview
As a newly promoted journalist (congratulations on your last successful assignment!), you have been hired to produce the front page of a special newspaper issue around the theme of Sustainable Settlements.
You will choose one settlement and will create a front page that presents a main theme or message around sustainability.
As a newly promoted journalist (congratulations on your last successful assignment!), you have been hired to produce the front page of a special newspaper issue around the theme of Sustainable Settlements.
You will choose one settlement and will create a front page that presents a main theme or message around sustainability.
Big Ideas:
Media conventions including:
For the newspaper: a masthead, a newspaper logo, a picture and a caption, and a map of the community
For each article: a headline, standalone, byline
** CHOOSE ONE OF THE TWO ARTICLES BELOW TO WRITE **
Article One: An environmental issue in your chosen settlement
Article Two: Editorial on one solution to an environmental issue (Is the solution sustainable?)
- A relationship exists between human settlements, the environment and sustainability
- Human technology can be used to create sustainable solutions
- Media texts, like the front page of a newspaper, use a variety of text features, forms and conventions to communicate meaning
Media conventions including:
For the newspaper: a masthead, a newspaper logo, a picture and a caption, and a map of the community
For each article: a headline, standalone, byline
** CHOOSE ONE OF THE TWO ARTICLES BELOW TO WRITE **
Article One: An environmental issue in your chosen settlement
- 4 paragraphs: introduction, description of the issue (cause/ consequence), potential solutions, conclusion
- should be written in third person using professional language
Article Two: Editorial on one solution to an environmental issue (Is the solution sustainable?)
- 4 paragraphs: introduction, description of problem/ solution, your opinion of the solution, conclusion
- should be written in first person and use evidence and examples to justify your opinion
Assignment Timelines
I have chosen my settlement, the environmental issue and the solution by November 17, 2014.
I have researched my articles by November 25, 2014.
I have planned and drafted article one by November 28.
I have self and peer-edited my article by December 3.
I have planned out the front page of my paper by December 8.
I have published my newspaper front page by December 12.
I have chosen my settlement, the environmental issue and the solution by November 17, 2014.
I have researched my articles by November 25, 2014.
I have planned and drafted article one by November 28.
I have self and peer-edited my article by December 3.
I have planned out the front page of my paper by December 8.
I have published my newspaper front page by December 12.
Assignment Handouts (Planner, Rubric, Exemplar)
front_page_newspaper_assignment_copy.pdf | |
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newspaper_report_rubric.pdf | |
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exemplar-_magazine_front_page.pdf | |
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research_planner_-_newspaper_report.pdf | |
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