Assignments

Log Due Dates for Marking Period 2
November - January 2008 -2009
Assignment Due Dates Marking Period 2A Log #1-Week of 11/3 Log #2-Week of 11/10 Log #3-Week of 11/17 Log #4-Week of 11/24 Log #5- Week of	Marking Period 2B Log #6-Week of Log #7-Week of Log #8-Week of Log#9-
Also remember you are working on the Current Edition of the Newspaper. Be sure to sign up for responsibilities. Keep in mind, that in order to receive credit for the club, you must put in time afterschool and/or during your free blocks.

Diversity Assignment

Diversity Project

1-In Adobe InDesign-You will create a one page visual portraying the meaning to you of one of the following diversity quotes:

"Diversity makes for a rich tapestry. All the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color"
~Maya Angelou

"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by its own greatest strength--its diversity."
Melissa Etheridge

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
~Jimmy Carter

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
~Margaret Mead

I need to be able to know why and who it is from your visual. (Note: You are to use Adobe PhotoShop to work on graphics that you will include in your InDesign page.)

2-In word, write a five paragraph essay the meaning of the quote and how it deals with diversity in the US or the world today

Search Engines

Provides up-to-the-minute news from various media such as newspapers, web sites, television, videos, blogs, etc.

http://www.silobreaker.com/

News Archive Search

More about News archive search

News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

http://www.powerset.com/ w3

http://www.searchme.com/

http://sortfix.com/

http://www.gigablast.com/

Additional News Search Engines

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156261

Useful graphic web sites

http://bop.nppa.org/2007/

http://www.picfindr.com/

As a quote from their website: "PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially."

http://www.in-visions.net/graphic_links2.htm

Check out the following high school newspapers:
(Student recommended)

http://www.nantucket.k12.ma.us/~veritas/index.html

http://www.sequoits.com/activities/tomtom/index.html

http://www.jacket.org/Content/Current%20Issue/12_3_04.pdf

http://www.hw.com/students/chronicle/2004-2005/Issue%208/Features/features%20full.pdf

http://www.hw.com/students/chronicle/2004-2005/issue8.html (for more issues of the Chronicle)

View the front pages of almost 300 newspapers from all over the world at: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp?page=1

Note: You can also view the pages by page list by clicking on the page list tab at the top.

Flash Version at: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Also visit the cyber museum by going to: http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/index.htm

CQ Researcher

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher is a reliable source for information on controversial issues in the news. Each week it focuses on a single issue and provides an overview of the situation, a timeline, a history of the problem, current news and the outlook for the future. Perhaps the most helpful section is "pro/con" which gives essays on the topic by experts on each side of the debate. Recent topics include "Factory Farms," "The New Environmentalism," and "Privacy in Peril," "Climate Change." Upcoming reports will focus on "Rethinking Foreign Policy" and "Treating Addiction." Check it out!

Assignment 1

Redesign Project--250 Points

You may work with a partner (up to 3 of you in a group) for this assignment.

Click on this link for the instructions for your Redesign Project!

Redesign of the Sports Pages

Design of the Class News, etc.

Redesign of the New Teachers

Also remember you are working on the March Edition of the Newspaper. Be sure to sign up for responsibilities. Keep in mind, that in order to receive credit for the club, you must put in time afterschool and/or during your free blocks.

Assignment 2 -

Movie Poster

Students are to create a
movie poster. Students are to use
Photoshop to prepare pictures and
create backgrounds.
Students are to use layers in Adobe InDesign
to complete their posters.

Files should be exported as pdf files for review.

Check out some movie posters with a PhotoShop theme at:

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/contests/contest-5-finalists.htm

Publications 2 – Assignments

1. Sign-up for story editor – Q

a. (Follow News Group Prep. Form)

2. Sign-up for page editor – K

a. (Get a copy of Page Layout Check Off Sheet)

3. Create due dates for:

a. All articles – story editors – Q

b. Completion of pages

c. Editing of pages