Journalism Article Quarter 2

Journalism Article

Assignment/Activity Title—News Writing                                      Year— Sophomore

Skill— Writing                                                                      Portfolio Category— Social Awareness           

For a second quarter assignment in journalism this year, we had to use what was learned throughout the first semester about news writing and write a news story on our own. When we first received this assignment, I was daunted at the idea of writing news on my own. We had to find our own news story, interview people involved, and write a story that was interesting and followed the guidelines of news writing. I had never written a news story on my own, and did not know where to begin. I asked around for current events happening at Blair, but nothing I found was sufficiently interesting to me, and I didn’t want to write about it.

One Tuesday afternoon, I decided that I would go to the Blair Varsity girl’s basketball game, and bring my journal along. I was unsure if I would write about the game, because I was not a huge fan of basketball and knew little to nothing about the sport itself, or any of the terminology. As I watched

C-SPAN Documentary Quarter 2/3

C-SPAN Video (Click Here)

Assignment/Activity Title— C-SPAN Documentary                                      Year— Sophomore

Skill—   Media, Research, Writing                                    Portfolio Category— Social Awareness           

            As one of our major second quarter film projects as a CAP sophomore, C-SPAN was both a fun and educational assignment. Every year, the news-broadcasting network C-SPAN holds a national video documentary competition that pushes students grades 6-12 to think critically about local and national issues in the U.S. Students chose groups of 2 – 4 people, and created a short documentary based around the theme. The 2015 C-SPAN StudentCam theme was entitled “The Three Branches and You” and asked students to tell a story that demonstrates how a policy, law, or action by one of the three branches of government has an affect on the student personally or in their community.

When we got this assignment, I was very enthusiastic because I loved to edit and produce films, and having experience in the C-SPAN StudentCam due to 8^th grade at Eastern Humanities, I knew what it would take to win the competition. There were many topics I was interested in, however none were as interesting to me as the rise in college tuition. This was an issue that I knew I would be facing in the