Syllabus
Welcome To Ms. Kincaid’s Journalism Experience
Ms. Kincaid – Unis Middle School
voicemail – (313) 827-7703
Course Overview:
Unis Journalism class is dedicated to the craft of writing, editing, photographing, audio recording, video shooting, and documenting news that is relevant to our student body and the surrounding community of Dearborn, Michigan. All published student work can be found on https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/journalism/ .
Course Description:
Students will focus on hard news and feature news writing with journalistic integrity. They will learn how to pick high interest topics, develop quality questions, acquire advanced photography techniques, adhere to journalistic writing styles, and other methods and procedures necessary to write authentic feature stories within a predetermined deadline.
Course Requirements:
Students will be expected to fulfill a rigorous timeline of written and photographic assignments. Parent consent letter to publish student work.
Supplies:
– a thick notebook
– pencils
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Course Outline:
Power of News
- Why Journalism
- Let Your Voice Be Heard
- What Readers Want
- Types of News Stories
News Writing Basics
- 5 Functions of Journalism
- Inverted Pyramid
- Nut Graph
- Text Structure
- Validity and Credible Sources
- Questions – How to write good ones
- Ready to Interview
- Quotes
- Headlines
- Leads
Ethics
- Media and the Law
- Censorship
- 1st Amendment
- Student Journalistic Rights
- Facts vs Opinion
Getting Ready to Write
- Professionalism
- Grammar, Proofreading, and Editing
- Criteria and Rubrics
- Meeting Deadlines
- Budget Meetings
- Self Assessment
- Peer editing
Photojournalism
- Rules of Photo Composition
- A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
- Photo Assignment Fun (due monthly)
- Community Through Our Lenses
Hard News vs Soft News
- Around the Globe
- Elements of News
- In-Depth Reporting
- Careers In Journalism
- Writing Newsletters
Opinions and Editorials
- Editorials Count
- Then and Now
- Ted Talks
- Impromptu Speeches
- News Broadcasting
Multimedia and Journalism
- Videography 101
- Video editing and production
- Visual storytelling
Final Projects
