Part of it All
Module 1, Activity 1.9 - Parts of a Newspaper
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Introduction: You will learn the parts of a newspaper and how a newspaper is made by looking at a virtual tour, trying some on-line quizzes, working on a puzzle and looking at real pagination of a rural paper.
Activities: Task One - Virtual Tour You can visit one of two potential virtual tours of a newspaper in production. The LA Times The News and Record Record the steps involved in creating and printing a newspaper in your notebook. Task Two - Parts of the Paper Read over the list of the parts of a newspaper page. Then try the drag and drop quizzes to check yourself and see if you know the parts. In each quiz, drag the names on the right beside the definitions on the left. Some quizzes are timed!
Headlines Quiz Cover Quiz Visual Quiz Invisible Elements Quiz Document Text Layout Quiz
	What seems like a simple newspaper is really part of a complex process of construction.
Task Three - The Puzzle Print off a copy of the newspaper puzzle and cut out each square. As a group of two or three, arrange the squares in what you think is the order events happen. Some events would need to happen at the same time, and some tiles are not events, but information that relates to an event.

Objectives: You will be able to - understand how a newspaper is produced - recognize the basic formats used in newspapers
Resources: - Meadow Lake Progress pages - virtual tour - on-line quizzes - parts of a newspaper puzzle
Task Three Continued. . . When you have finished, you should have a time line of events. While it should roughly be a long line, some events may occur at the same time or not actually be events (and therefore not used in the timeline). After all of the groups have put their events in order, compare your work to another group to see if you got the same sequence of events. Be sure to discuss the differences and see if you can both agree on a particular order.
Task Four - Heart of Saskatchewan Download the pages from various editions of the Meadow Lake Progress and print them off. All of the pages of this edition are available in .pdf form only. As a small group, label all the parts of a paper for a set of two pages that you printed. Use the terms that you learned in Task Two. Then join the class in a discussion of how working in a rural paper differs from being a journalist is a large urban paper.
	The process of putting together a paper is a different puzzle in every paper - but there are common elements.

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May 30, 2005

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