Engage your pupils in a seres of journalism activities. For this journalism lesson plan, learners practice with AP style, analyze an article, practice writing leads, work with organizing information, and take a stab at writing headlines. Each activity is paired with a worksheet.

Concepts

journalism, headlines, leads, reading articles

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• As the lesson plan suggests, this would work well as a sub plan
• Try out the whole lesson, or some specific worksheets from the collection, at the beginning of the year with your journalism class

Classroom Considerations

• For the first activity, you will need to have an AP Style Guide or online equivalent handy
• While the plan specifically states that this was originally designed as a sub plan, you can definitely use it for regular instruction

Pros

• Includes options for both traditional and block schedule setups
• Comes with worksheets and answer keys (when appropriate)

Cons

• One of the worksheets is titled with Analyzation, which is not a word; you may wish to white this out and write in Analysis instead

Common Core

RI.7.2 RI.7.5 RI.8.2 RI.8.5 RI.9-10.2 RI.9-10.5 RI.11-12.2 RI.11-12.5 W.7.2.a W.8.2.a W.9-10.2.a W.11-12.2.a