September issue

Good morning everyone,
I hope your first exam went well and that you are all successful on your earth science Regent today...

I wanted to plan on a small September issue in the fall - something like 4-8 pages...

So over the summer, keep your eyes and ears open...

If you know students who are working on internships or other special things - lets get a news story about that - summer jobs.
Maybe a feature story on summer travel for educational purposes.
Maybe if you are working an internship an editorial on what you gained from it.
Sports fans... watch closely for interesting things that happen over the summer that may interest students.
I'm thinking just a page or 2 for each section
News, Feature, Opinion, Sports and Entertainment... watch those movies and read those books... see the concerts and be ready to review...

I know 8 pages will seem easy after the 60 pages we did this last time...(which by the way was wonderful :)

keep in touch if you are interested in writing for the Septemeber issue...

A good year

Good morning everyone.

You should all be very proud of your efforts this year. We have come a long way.

Our paper should be out on Monday.

Study hard for your Regents... good luck.

Have a great summer. Stay in touch.

See you next year :)

World News - page 48 and 50

I'd like us to get a survey of things happening in the world right now...
and then get student/ teacher thoughts on these things... we can get head shots and just throw these pages together under the headline What WJPS thinks of World Events

1) Obama's talk about the middle east peace in Cairo
2) D-day remembrance
3) Air France plane crash
4) Bin Laden tape
5) War in Iraq
6) War in Afghanistan
7) Israel / Palestinian issue
8) British Parliamentary expense scandal and elections
9) Lebanese elections

finishing the paper

I need everyone here at lunch tomorrow... we have chorus, so we won't be in class.

Pages need to be finished by Wed. 6/10 - mid day

Also, if you haven't gotten a grade on any finished work (articles or otherwise) send to me, please... check teacherease to know if it had been graded.

Make up work

All make up work is due Friday, June 12th

Layout reminder

Even page number go on the top left hand side of the page
Odd page numbers go on the top right hand side of the page.

the section heading should be in a separate text box from the page number

the section heading should be all CAPS

Week of June 1st

We will only have Monday - Wednesday to start layout -
Thursday you don't have school
Friday is chorus

All pages need to be ready to go by Wednesday, June 10th

I expect to see everyone working at lunch all of next week and possibly after school.

I will be working with photo journalism on Monday after school in the pub lab to make sure pictures for the paper are ready to be used. - so if you'd like to work after school on Monday...I'll be there

Wednesday, I'm at school beyond the half day, if you need to work, I will see what I can do to get you to be able to stay.

By Monday, you should know which pages you are responsible for laying out and what articles and pics go on your pages. The spreadsheet should be filled out accordingly... the pages you are responsible for, you will be getting a grade on... so make sure we all know who is accountable.