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For the last two weeks we’ll be posting regularly on Youth Voices about a story that your peers would find interesting and important. Use your Google Reader to collect feeds from news sources, blogs, and other media. You’ll need a Google Account if you don’t have one yet. Here’s a link to the instructions for Using Google Reader. Not sure what RSS and Readers are? Watch this Common Craft show on RSS.

For Tuesday: Browse the list of stories on the Wikipedia article, “United States Journalism Scandals.” In your opinion what are the five worst cases?

Try to find out what you can about this person for Friday’s class.

Your final draft of the alumni story is due Thursday, 5/15.  To receive full credit make the necessary changes to the draft and then attach the draft with the comments to your final draft.

Here’s what need to be in your writer’s notebook

1. one-syllable essay
2. early childhood story (neighborhood or room)
3. Letter from Birmingham Jail questions
4. school story
5. “A Modest Proposal” questions
6. music memory
7. This I Believe. For models of this kind of writing go to the This I Believe web site.

Put all three locker images into one Photoshop document.  It may in the form of a traditional triptych or a blend of the three images.

Sometimes hearing popular songs from previous years can resurface memories. Whether we loved them or hated them, loved to hate them or hated to love them, listening to the songs that were popular during your pre-teen and teen years, will bring back stories. Take a look at the lists below, and write what stories come to mind when you hear those songs again.

• Top songs of the ’90s
• Top songs of 2000
• Top songs of 2001
• Top songs of 2002
• Top songs of 2003
• Top songs of 2004
• Top songs of 2005
• Top songs of 2006
• Top songs of 2007

Rubric for Judge History Project stories. Print your story and bring it to class on Friday, 4/2

• Develop a theme by mentioning it in your first paragraph and end with a reference to it
• Use at least three direct quotes from the person
• Look at your letter again and make sure you’ve got your facts correct
• Write the story as interestingly as possible, without interjecting too much of your opinion
• Spell check and proofread for surface errors
• The story between 300-600 words.  Paragraphs are short, from 2-4 sentences long.

Read Jonathan Swift’s essay on p. 473 for Friday, 5/2.  Answer Reading and Thinking questions #1-3 on page 477.  Also answer Thinking and Writing question #1.

Here are the slides for the presentation I gave in class on Thursday.