Newsletter: Day 2; Reading Groups

Start with a discussion of your book with your book group. Complete the handout with your group as notes you might study with for our upcoming exam on the book.

Last class you should have decided on your newsletter subject, chosen a partner, and brainstormed names and ideas for your articles. Today please complete #5 below: (each partner should complete approx. 2 pages of the 4 page newsletter. Please include your name after (or before) the headline to indicate you wrote that article.

• 1. Decide on the kind of newsletter/magazine you would like to work on with your partner. 
• 2. Brainstorm some names for the magazine/newsletter. Titles usually help a prospective reader find and identify the kind of magazine he/she would like to read.
• 3. Brainstorm some potential article ideas. Write these ideas down in your journal!
• 4. Create headlines for your article ideas. These should be short and intriguing titles. Be creative!
• 5. If you have brainstormed at least 5 story ideas and titles, you may begin writing the articles. Make up details or conduct research as you see fit, but above all: be detailed and creative! 

Most newspaper articles interview or have short quotes from participants. Newspaper articles answer: who, what, where, when, how, and why? about a particular event.

HOMEWORK: Continue reading the novel you selected.