CommonLit
Common Lit: "Woman Who Helped Anne Frank Dies at 100 by Teri Schultz, Npr
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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School Journalism: Basic Interviewing and Reporting
Need a way to start off your journalism class for the year? This class period unit for High School Journalism can start you off on the right foot.
PBS
Pbs: Interview With Geneva Overholser
This site is provided for by PBS. An interview with Geneva Overholser, former editor of The Des Moines Register, who led the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for public service. Frank discussion about the state of the profession, using...
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Wired for Books: Audio Interview With Robertson Davies
Listen to an interview with Canadian novelist Robertson Davies, author of "A Mixture of Frailties" and "The Lyre of Orpheus." Discussion topics include journalism, writing plays, and writers' experiences.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: The Feature Story?fifteen Minutes (And 500 Words) of Fame!
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to write feature news stories and the difference between feature and hard news articles. Students interview each other as prewriting for writing their own human interest stories. In...
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No Train, No Gain: Scribbling With Purpose
This site is provided for by No Train, No Gain. The Omaha World-Herald writing coach explains the whole notetaking process, and gives tips for successful notetaking while interviewing. Be sure to view the links at the end of the article...
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Catholic News Service
The Catholic News Service is a primary news source for the English-language Catholic world press. It publishes daily news briefs and regularly files full-length articles on wide-ranging topics affecting Roman Catholics. Special sections...
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Mount Vernon Ladies' Association: Reporting the Revolutionary War
In today's fast-paced news cycle, we have multiple venues for learning about current events at any time during the day or night. During the revolution, they had one source (newspaper) that was only published once a week. Even with this...
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
Powerhouse Museum: Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Collection
An exciting online exhibit presenting hundreds of objects created specifically for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. See interactive collections of broadcast materials (manuals, media kits, passes), posters, banners, costumes, souvenirs,...