Thursday, May 23, 2013

20 Questions: School Uniform

1) What enforced your decision about school uniforms?
2) Do you approve or disapprove of the new mandatory uniforms?
3) How do you think the student body will react?
4) Do you think the student body will follow dress code?
5) Why waste so much time in making sure everyone is wearing the proper uniforms?
6) What was your reaction?
7) What would be the positive outcome of enforcing uniforms?
8) What would be the negative outcome of enforcing uniforms?
9) Do parents have a say in this issue?
10) Don't you think this will affect students individuality of expressing themselves?
11) How do you feel about being forced against your will into wearing uniforms?
12) Will you start a petition into getting rid of them?
13) Will you be more accepting if the uniforms weren't old fashion and seasonal?
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20) How long will the mandatory uniforms be enforced for?

SOURCES: Principal, Teachers, and Student Body. 



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Questions: Student of the month

 (Interviewing Analisa S.)

1) Why? OR Why do you think you got chosen?
 - I didn't even know I was nominated
2) Are you feeling a sense of accomplishment right now?
 -Yes, definitely.
3) How many people did you have to kill to get this award?
 - None! Violence isn't the answer.
4) When did you find out about being nominated for this award?
 - I was chilling out in my room when my mom came in and handed me a letter from the school.
5) What did you do to achieve this award?
 - I worked really hard and never gave up.
6) Do you agree or disagree with their decision
 - I agree because I did everything I could.
7) Whose your role model?
 - My Mother
8) Will you continue on thriving to achieve this award?
 - Yes, I will!
9) Anyone you'd like to thank for nominating you?
 - Just my teachers.
10) Seriously, though, did you get a prize or gift card with the award?
 - Oh yeah, I got a gift card.

11) How did your parents react? 
  - They were very excited, proud of me because they new I could do it.

12) Did they congratulate you by taking you out for a nice dinner?
 - Yes, they did. They took me out to olive garden and to watch Iron Man 3.

13) How did your friends react to you being chosen as student of the month?
 - I was shocked, but then again, I thought I deserved it because of all the studying I did.

14) Do you consider yourself as being a role model?
 - Yeah, I do. I try to make sure when people look at me in a positive and not a negative way.

15) Let's be honest here, are you're going to claim bragging rights?
 - Definitely!

16) Any words of evidence to your fellow classmates?
  - Just keep up a positive attitude and anything is possible.

17) Does student of the month have any perks besides bragging rights?
 - Yes I get noticed a lot more, not to mention get away with more things than I used to.

18) Have you received prior awards?
 - Just perfect attendance.

19) Do you think it's a big deal or not?
 - Sure, it's a big deal.

20) Now, how will you really celebrate?
 - Going out with friends and having a fun time before going back to studying. 
 

Monday, April 29, 2013

Newspaper notes

Broadsheet: 3 or more stories on the front page.
Tabloid: smaller in format - broadsheet sideways - with 2 or less stories on it. 
News magazine: magazine with news, no stories on the front page, 99.9% of the time have a glossy cover. 

Newspaper Headline and sub headlines
Bold titles
Table of contents
Teasers
captions (headline, two sentence caption, photo credit)
the flag (title) (teaser) (picture box)
 stories (byline - person who does interview - and title)
name of publication (folio: school name, website, quote, school address, volume and issue number) 
boxes
jump (story starts on on page and starts on another page - tells yah what page to go and from)
Screen (box w/ color in it that usually comes from a picture)
Info graphic (information in graphic form - uh pie chart, graph, t-chart stuff)
Mast Pet (logos of organizations we belong to, names of the people working in newspaper - staff box -, terms & conditions - dunno what to call it - uh editorial policy)

Friday, April 19, 2013

Front Pages of the World

 1) Anchorage Daily News due to the layout of the newspaper - you can easily tell which story and picture goes with what - and doesn't overwhelm you with nonsense stories.

2) "Explosion stuns, and shatters Texas town" because of how close in proximity this actually happened from us. 

3) Three main stories and five minor stories that you read elsewhere in the newspaper. 

4) Large bold headlines for each of the main stories, one large photograph for the main story and a tiny photograph for a minor story. blah blah blah. 

5) Layout of the newspaper in general - can have more stories or more photographs - not to mention different bold words in the headline to make the story pop out to you.