PREPARING FOR OUR SUPER NEWSPAPER PROJECT!!!

1. According to this website, what is a feature story (how would you summarize it in 3 sentences)?

http://www.powell.k12.ky.us/jfrancis/adaptations/feature_article_examples.htm




B. What are at least 3 things a feature story should include?





2. Look at the “ other examples of a feature story” at the bottom of the page. Pick one, click on it, explore, and discuss why it is a feature story.







3. What is a “broadside?” (The Declaration of Independence was originally a broadside!!!)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401800562.html








4. Pick ONE example of a ‘broadside’ below from the time of the Revolution.
A. Describe what it looks like and what message it is giving.






B. How is it different from a feature article?



http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.1/images/grasso_fig01b.jpg

http://www.corbisimages.com:80/images/IH134163.jpg?size=67&uid=92A89279-E588-4400-87BE-236BEA5C3926

http://www.executedtoday.com/images/Henry_Nichols_broadside.jpg

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/images/geow.jpg


5. What is an ‘editorial’? At least three sentences.
http://www.newspapersineducation.ca/eng/level_7to9/lesson11/lesson11_eng.html#sample









6. Pick one of the samples on that website and describe why it is an editorial:









7. What is an ‘editorial cartoon’?

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/firsts/cartoon/







8. What is the message in this editorial cartoon? Why do you think that is the message?
http://memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a12000/3a12100/3a12149r.jpg