New Journalism 2014

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Where’s the balance between expressing your own ideas and responding to others?

Freewrite:

1. What’s on your mind?
   Freewrite for 10 or 15 minutes (front of a page of paper) about your weekend—or anything else—on paper first.
   • You might want to use one of your 10 self / 10 world questions.
   • Or find a question that someone is asking on Youth Twitter, and freewrite about that. (Put a question mark in the search box and enter to find questions.)
2. On the other side of your paper, write a focused sentence.
   Write one perfect, strong, clever, wonderful sentence that sums up everything in your freewrite in a fresh way. (Like an advertisement!)
3. Log in to your tumblr, find your dashboard, open a Text Post, and copy your focused sentence. Then keep writing for another 10 or 15 minutes about that focused sentence. This writing should extend, go beyond, develop, add to, build on… your written freewrite.
4. Post on tumblr, then link to your post on Youth Twitter.
   
   • Log in and write a new focused sentence on Youth Twitter.
   • Choose an important word to make a link to your tumblr post.
   • Put square brackets [ ] around that important word and paste the URL to your post (under the time stamp on tumblr) in parantheses ( ).

Response

1. Find something you like in Space Issue #2 or in Youth Twitter.
2. Write a response in your tumblr/text. Copy Sentence Starters and paste them into a text box on your tumblr.

Your Goal today:

1. Complete post with details and thought.
2. Link to a tweet on Youth twitter.
3. Begin your response to someone published in Space.

General Understanding:
First be a creator with your own thinking, then respond to others.

Sentence Starters: Something I’ve been interested in learning more about…

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Something that I have been interested in learning more about has been {something specific}. I remember {someone you know} talking about it {when?}, but {explain why you didn’t learn more at that time}. Lately, the issue has caught my eye again. I know that many people feel that {what do some people say about this issue?}. From what I have heard, {what do you know about this issue?} For example, I heard that {be specific with one expample of what you have heard.} Now that’s just what I’ve heard, it may or may not be true.

One thing that I know for sure about {your subject} is that {be specific}. Now I’ve studied my share of {Put a subject here, for example: U.S.History, Biology, Environmental Science, Religion, Philosophy, Music, Sports…}, and {make a claim about your topic. What do you believe?} Personally, it’s funny to me how {explain how what you are studying is a pattern that you’ve noticed before.}

{Your Subject} {was / was not} {explain what was important about this topic in the past.} {In two or three more sentences, explain everything you know about this topic.}

Being that I didn’t have a lot of background information on {your subject.}, I chose to do some research on the topic. As I searched for blogs and news articles on Google, I came across this one article: {Title and link to the article.} This article provided a lot of information and opinions on {your subject}. Some people felt that {your subject} were {summarize some facts from your article.} {Insert a quote from the article.} This {statement/statistic} didn’t really surprise me all that much, but it did make me feel {emotion}. {Write 2 or 3 more sentences, expaining why you feel the way you do.}

In another article, {Title and link to another article.} there was this one statement that made me {nod my head in agreement / shake my head in disagreement} with the writer. It was: {Insert a second quote from the article.} This is so {true / untrue}, because {expalin why you think and why in 3 or 4 more sentences.}

All of this makes me think that {write 3 or 4 more sentence summarizing what you learned from reading these articles.}

Freewrite/ Work on last weeks or do a new on this week.

1. What’s on your mind?
   Freewrite abour your weekend—or anything else—on paper first, then on tumblr/text
2. Link to your post on Youth Twitter.

Practice:

1. Find something you like in Space Issue #2 or in Youth Twitter. (Check out Street Dreamz.)
2. Write a response in your tumblr/text. Copy Sentence Starters and paste them into a text box on your tumblr.

Your Goal today:

1. Complete post with details and thought.
2. Link to a tweet on Youth twitter

General Understanding:
Become a creator who replies to others.

Freewrite

1. What’s on your mind?
   Freewrite abour your weekend—or anything else—on paper first, then on tumblr/text
2. Link to your post on Youth Twitter.

Practice:

1. Find something you like in Space Issue #2 or in Youth Twitter. (Check out Street Dreamz.)
2. Write a response in your tumblr/text. Copy Sentence Starters and paste them into a text box on your tumblr.

Your Goal today:

1. Complete post with details and thought.
2. Link to a tweet on Youth twitter

General Understanding:
Become a creator who replies to others.

Finding Space on Youth Twitter

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Brainstarter:

1. Write abour your break on paper first, then on tumblr/text
2. Link to your post on Youth Twitter.

Practice:

1. Find something you like in Space Issue #2
2. Copy Sentence Starters (below) and paste them into a text box on your tumblr.

Your Goal today:

1. Complete post with details and thought.
2. Link to a tweet on Youth twitter

Become a creator who replies to others.

Sentence Starters for Space, Issue #2

Copy these sentences, and replace anything that is in {these brackets} with your own details and ideas.

I found a {poem/story/essay/photograph/animation/song/video…} in Space, Issue #2 by {Name of Creator+link to blog}.

I {past tense verb showing emotion} “{Exact Title+link from Space},” because…

One {sentence/part} that stands out for me is: “{Quote from the work.}” I think this is {adjective} because… {add 1 or 2 sentences}

Another {sentence/part} that I {past tense verb} was: “{Quote from the work}.” This stood out for me because…

I look forward to seeing what {Name of Creator} makes next, because… {add 2 or 3 sentences explaining what will bring you back to see more about this person’s thoughts}.