Friday, December 12, 2014

FINAL EXAM REVIEW

1. Timeliness-
2. Proximity
3. Human Interest
4. Prominence
5. Conflict- the main interest
6. Interviews- asking a person question for a news story
7. Research- the facts for a story
8. Quotations- what the person you interviewed said
9. Yes-no question- a question that starts with "did"
10. Follow-up question
11. Objective writing
12. Transition paragraph
13. Hard news story
14. Soft news story
15. Inverted Pyramid
16. Third-person point of view
17. 5 Ws and H lead
18. editing
19. attribution
20. paraphrase
21. fragmentary quotation
22. direct quotation
23. partial quotation
24. Uses of quotations 
25. When to use quotations
26. When quotations are unnecessary or not desired
27. Editorial
28. editorial page
29. columns
30. editorial that criticizes 
31. editorial that explains
32. editorial that persuades
33. letter to the editor

feature writing preview

1. in a hard news lede, it states more hard facts
2. the second paragraph
3. yes there are qoutes
4. thoughout the story yes its in the formation
5. Ted Williams, Ken Andrews, Kevin McLoughlin, Doral Chenoweth III,Tony Florentino, Shane Cormier
6.  He said to me: 'Radio is defined (as) theater of mind'
7. with small paragraphs around 29  
8. 762 words in the story
9. it starts off the same and ends the same, when they talk about the voice and reuse it
10. to make it more defining and change it up a bit
11. usually you here weird stories about the homeless, but yes this was a nice change and it was really interesting
12. i wanted to hear the voice to see what it would sound like 
13. you can really tell he has a voice, after the story and watching the video it was really cool the second more then the first because i could understand more. 
14. i think it would lose the impact, it wouldnt be as interesting 
15. yes the writer really did 
16. by the voices own words with the added quotes

key ingredients

1. Very informative
     detailed in news writing
     made me want to read more
2. Long sentences/descriptive
    Novel writing
3. Yes, i want know what happened
4. "torn, moldy matress"
     "Long legs, emaciated chest"
     "Ribs, and collarbones jutted out" 
5. What they're bones are like
    write like a novelist
6. she's very unstable with lice, rashes, starving, sleeping on mondly matress, insect bites, ribs are popping out, sores, and no clothes
7. yes
8. it gives more information to the readers
9. yes
10. temrerature toward 100 degress
      flames where rushing
      metal grinder jumped
11. that the metal grinder jumped
      that the canyon was narrow
12. the monster
13. fixing the water pipe
14. yes
15. wildfire coasts are busting
      fire is chewing
      wildfire where increasing
16. the third one
17. yes
      
     

Thursday, December 11, 2014

feature story example

1. I was interested, the part about "we may not be here next year" made me sad but made me wonder why and what made them think that.
2. I learned that i never really realized how much terror veterans go through, and even though they think they're done with war, veterans are never going to be done with war.
3. yes, it was very detailed and interesting
4. The story was written in 3rd person
5. yes, considering they had so many men included in the story and telling us what they really go through and leave room for the details
6. the writer quoted 13 people
7. how much time they had left
8. The quotes helped the story by helping us understand what kind of emotions they went through, and they made the story really emotional
9. no, not really
10. This was more captivating and emotional not as hard like a story about a bank being robbed, it was personal to some people

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

CURRENT EVENT QUIZ: 3.4

1.  "let me die" was written across the body in black marker when everything happened.
2. Bill Crosby stepped down from the board because. he was being accused of druging and sexually abusing a line of women of the years
3. Cyber Monday sales increased this year by 20.6 percent from last year
4. Alyssa's favorite animal is an Elephant
5. Elf is my favorite movie out of the movies
SHORT ANSWER:
1. It does kind of make me nervous for the reason that people could of got hurt even if it wasn't his intention or not, even though he was just looking at government building he could of gone to schools around Austin sense schools have to do with the government.
2. If the guy had survived then i would put him in jail for almost causing harm and damaging government property and i would suggest that he has time to talk to someone.
3. Society should have group meetings about this stuff and invite people who have these kind of problems with anything about goverment or anything else so they can talk it out and learn what they think.
4. people should believe what they want, you can't take away someones beliefs just because it may not be right, if they act on it then they should get help so people would understand why they acted on it.
5. If the Government get involved with in this stuff then it would be a riot, the goverment would make some stupid choice that people don't like and then everybody would act on it but then people would think that's okay to do, people who help people should get involved and help them understand whats right and wrong.
5B. they shouldn't get involved because people wouldn't like it and would't listen to them

Monday, December 1, 2014

questions/notes

DAD

1. my friend joey dying
2, it was tough, just secluded myself from everybody
3. it changed that life is precious and that you should enjoy every moment and it taught me not to do drugs or alcohol
4. running with the wrong crowd in high school
5. we though we where too big for our brides
6. nope, there was Robert Medcaf, David Isabull, they all died before they got out of high school
7. i was in freshman year of high school
8. 15
9. Rossville fort Oglethorpe in Georgia
10. yes i think about them all the time, just how popular i was,
11. yeah i regret not getting my studies down and buckling down just being the clown i didn't have a dad around i have to learn it all the hard way, not listening to my mom
12. Bulldogs
13. my best memory was, i was selected to train at the Olympic training center for speed skating
14. my greatest achievement was when i was selected to train at the Olympic training center for speed skating
15. i learned to listen and do the job right the first time but i didn't learn that ill years later not till i was out of school
16. i'll never do nothing because i can do anything that i can set my mind too if anything high school taught me that i can do anything you just have to want it bad enough, never say i cant
17. yes it was anywhere from the girl i was dating wanted to have grease parties all the time to feel good sport stories where you have to believe in yourself and become the victor
18. not many, they all died before i got through high school
19. i was a bad boy in high school i was all the time in fights I've learned to channel it better to where i use to protect people like mom me and the kids i protect
20. no

MOM

1. my craziest moment was going tee peeing in another neighbors yard with chris and my other friend leti and her brother
2. it was pretty fun, probably i'd never do on my own but it's fun to go with friends, we tee peed the teachers yard, but only because it was we liked her
3. it didn't change my life but i learned that it was the first time that was i guess not a good thing because i followed all the rules so this was the first time i did something that was bad
4. it was my friend leti's idea to go and we just went along with it and so did her parents
5. because we chose to do it
6. Chris and leti and her brother and i still talk to them, chris is my best friend still and leti is my great friend i enjoy talking to
7. i was a sophomore
8. i was 16 when i did it
9. Falfurrias high school
10. no i remember them but i don't really think about them all the time like sit there but they're fond memories
11. i regret not pushing myself harder, i wanted to take the easy way out, when i knew i could of done better
12. the jersey's, the cow a dairy cow
13. my mother dying was my saddest she died when i was a senior from breast cancer, my sweetest was going to my first from as a junior,
14. my greatest achievement was making the national honors society, and making first place in a junior varsity tennis match
15. i learned that i was really artistic
16. probably judge people for the way they look
17. it was kind of like footloose, a small town and a new kid coming to your school whose different from everybody else and your intrigued by them but then you realize they're just like you
18.  i had two good friends but i was friends with almost everybody
19. in high school i was pretty reserved and quiet, always wanting to do good with my grades and in life, but i think i had low self esteem but now i'm more confident in what i know in my talents and i;'m still quiet but i think i know how to speak up know when i want to
20. well the day after i graduated high i moved out of my town and other wise if i still did that i'd still be there and that was the most life changing