Sports writing Winter 2017-2018 Mr. Barrus sbarrus@msd321.

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Dates Objectives Due this week
Nov 27-Dec Get to know the class Choose a book and begin
1 What is news? Headlines, inverted pyramid. reading
Choose a book for book report
Writing The Advance
Quiz: Organization(inverted pyramid, leads, headlines)
Dec 4-8 What is a rubric? Advance Story (10)
Using photos/cutline/copyright
Writing the Profile Story
Quiz: Punctuation (quote, comma, dash), copyright
Dec 11-15 Best of Stories/Outdoor Writing/Unfamiliar Sports Profile Story (20)
What do journalists do
Quiz: Transitions, run-on sentence, fragments
Dec 18-Jan The Game Story, Writing a Speech Story Book Report (20) Due 1/4
5 Quiz: Active/Passive Voice Columnist Journal #1
Jan 8-12 Reviews Speech Story (20)
Quiz: Clarity Columnist Journal #2
Jan 15-19 Feature Writing (group project) Columnist Journal #3
Narrative and hourglass organization Game Story (20)
Quiz: Brevity
Jan 22-26 Editorial Writing/bloggers (Story #4 Assigned) Columnist Journal #4
Quiz: Editorials
Jan 29-Feb Super Bowl Week Columnist Journal #5
2 Advertising Feature Story (30)
Photography Advertising Assignment
Quiz: Advertising/photography (10)
Feb 5-9 Broadcasting/Radio/Podcast Columnist Journal (25)
Quiz: Broadcast writing Editorial (20)
Feb 12-16 Law/Ethics/Libel Broadcast Story/Podcast
Quiz: Law/ethics/libel (20)
Feb 19-23 Timed Writing/Deadline In-Class Timed Write (20)
Journalism as a Profession Story #4 (20)
Rewrites Due
Feb 26-Mar Final Review No writing assignments
2 Thursday -- Final Exam accepted.
When are stories due? On Time. Early is great, late is impossible. All stories will be due Wednesday at 11:59
p.m. Submit essays by sharing your document with edit rights to Mr. Barrus. (sbarrus@msd321.com) You must
use your msd321.com email account. Also photos with cutline should be emailed as attachments to Mr.
Barrus. Quizzes will be given on Friday. Missed quizzes will be given the next Monday.

Bell-ringer: Daily sports headline. During the first 1 minute of class, turn in a paper with your sports headline
from the last 24-hours. It should have your name on it. Worth 1 point each day.

Homework: There is not assigned homework, however, you should plan your homework time to do interviews,
attend games, and do research. If you dont have any time for these things, you should not take this class.

Extra Credit: Rewrites: Any on-time essay can be re-written. It must have the original and the rubric attached.