Find 3 examples of strong leads. Post the one you feel is best and why to this blog post.
What kind of lead is it? Why is it effective? What is the language like?
***Bring an independent reading book for tomorrow's class period. If you are unprepared, you will lose credit for class participation tomorrow.
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By Adam Nossuter
BATON ROUGE, La - The fearsome heat of a South Louisiana summer unmediated by air-conditioning , reduces the strong to a primal struggle and sends the weak to the hospital.
I Chose this lead because it made me think about the topic and I wanted to read more in order to understand what it was really talking about.
~sarah bianchi
DALLAS- With a friend videotaping, 27-year old christopher Lenzini of Dallas took a hit of Salvia divinorum,reggarded as the world's most potent hallucinogeic herb, and soon began to imagine, he said, that he was in a boat with little green men. Mr. Lenzini quickly collapsed to the floor and dissolved into convulsive laughter.
I chose this lead because it caught my attention. I wanted to knoe what happened to this person and what the point was. It is a present participle lead. The language they use in this lead is scientific.
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Apple, the consumer electronics giant, on Tuesday rolled out new versions of its popular iPod music player, but failed to deliver the surprises that finicky investors have come to expect.
i chose this lead becouse it grabed my attenition and its something that everyone has
By:ara Rimer
The Georgia State School superintendent, Kathy Cox, won $1million on the Fox game show "Are you Smarter then a 5th Grader?" and said Monday that "the primary beneficiary of the money" would be two state schools for the deaf and one for the blind.
I chose this lead because i did see the show but wasn't sure what she was doing with it.
YESTERDAY'S Gal lup poll had John McCain ahead of Barack Obama by an astonishing 10 points among likely voters. A Washington Post poll had that lead at only two points, but clearly showed a McCain surge - especially among women. This wasn't what Democrats were expecting when they left Denver - yet they have nobody to blame but themselves.
i choose this leas because it is a very important topic that is going on in the world and it grabed my attention and made me want to read more.
"Shocking it wasn't to see Roger Federer eagerly await the desperate lob, fire off one last overhead, sink to his knees and roll over onto his back, a Unitrd States open champion for the fifth straight year."
I choose this article because I was following the US Open because my brother was aboy ball and I wanted to find out if Roger Federer won and what was the score of the game.
Posted for Erin
Federal regulators took a first step yesterday toward allowing a radioactive waste dump in Nevada, agreeing to formally review the governments license application for the dump.
I chose this lead because it interested me, its extremely shocking to find that regulators would even think about creating a radioactive dump. This lead is a past participle lead. It is effective because it grabs the readers attention while being short and "to the point". The language is not difficult, their are no big words, or difficult jargon.
Eric Vasquez
NYC transit will put a double decker bus on the road this week, a back to-the-future move promising big savings for the acency_ but little headroom for riders.
I choose this lead because it brought upon my attention. Both the begining n the ilustration.
A performer with the famed New York-based Alvin Ailey dance troupe on Tuesday said he was twice forced to perform steps for Israeli airport security officers to prove his identity before he was permitted to enter the country.
This is an noun lead. I think this is effective because it gives an important fact right in the beginning of the story and it makes the reader want to read more.
Amneet S
HI, I am sending the homework today, because I just got invited on
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By Nicholas Confessore
This November, millions of New Yorkers will cast their votes in a history-making, ceiling-shattering presidential election, where the Republican and Democratic nominees are locked in a close race and the stakes are magnified by the sinking economy and an unpopular foreign war.
I chose this lead, because I really like the way this author used strong phrases like ceiling shattering. This lead is a present particulate lead, because he says This November. I also liked how the whole sentence flowed, even though it was long, it had commas. He also gave the reader some facts like how our economy is down and we are in a war. It made me think not only about the election , but about the other events going on in the world.
Source: The New York Times.
Lead: Ending months of fevid speculation, the Metropolitian Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P.Campbell,a 46 year old English born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and cheif executive.
Reflect: I chose this lead because I believed that out of all the leads that i have done, this was the most clearest & simplest. This lead was short and right to the point. Anyone can understand what the writer is trying to explain and explain it in their own words. Also this lead, if a on-the-go person was to read this, it wouldnt be neccesary to read the entire article, because the main facts were pointed out in those little words. [:
Livianette period 2.
“RENO – It’s billed as ‘the world’s fastest motor sport’.
- Griffith, Martin (the Associated Press), U.S.A Today, page 2A, Sept. 8, 2008
I chose this article because leaves me with questions to know why is it “being billed” and what is “the worlds fastest motor sport”. This article is effective because it grabbed my attention and I want to know what it is all about. This article is a verb lead because it is about being billed and being mostly about taking actions.
"Marijuana may be somewhat of a wonder drug-- but perhaps not in the way you might think."
I'm not sure which kind of lead this is (Prepositional phrase maybe?) but it interested me because the first part of the sentence automatically makes you think of recreational drug use whule the article talks about a component of the plant that has promise as an antibiotic.
Cancer fears raised on WEst NIle spraying-Breast cancer groups and environmentalista sharply criticized nassau County yesterday for the aerial spraying last week against the west nilevirus of over 40,000 acres in the center of the country. i would like to read more about this.
Victor Rivera
"Took our baby from us"
- 13 year old boy shot dead on the stret in harlem left home for a quick trip to the store to buy sneakers but stopped to hang out with freinds.
-I chose this lead because it kept me thinking about what is going to happen nest asking myself questions i really thought this was anintersesting but sad topic.
"help kids deal with drug use"
before singer Mario could top the charts , he had to overcome his mothers drug use . now he wants to help others do the same .
Both candidates stretch facts in debate.
washington republican john mccain expressed increduilty in the presidental debate. tuesday that democrat barack obama would tip off the enemy by sayng publicy that he'd attack al-quida in pakistan under certain conditions.
i chose this lead because the title of the article caught my attention and i wanted to read more and i thought that this lead was good and it was interesting.
'For the first time, researchers have decoded all the genes of a person with cancer and found a set of mutations that may have caused the disease or aided its progression.'
I chose this because it was interesting and made me want to know what the article was about. it also was to the point
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