Post by kendall on Sept 26, 2011 15:01:14 GMT
Hi folks,
Your homework task is due on the 3rd October. Here is a copy of the slides I discussed with you today in class:
YOU ARE A JOURNALIST FOR A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER (TABLOID OR BROADSHEET) AND YOUR EDITOR HAS ASKED YOU TO COVER THE STORY OF TWO YOUNG LOVERS DISCOVERED DEAD IN A CHURCH TOMB.
Include details of plot
and character developments
Focus on the modern version of
the story and report on it as you
would expect to see it done now.
You need to create an attention-grabbing headline that would make readers buy your newspaper. Here are some examples:
Crazy kids killed in cemetery. Feuding families feel the fall out
Exiled Montague in suicide horror
Love's young dream - shattered!
Family feud ends in graveyard drama. Priest implicated
You will need to give an overview of the story in your article.
Think about:
What are the essential ingredients of the story?
Which characters do you need to keep and which can be edited out?
Beginning it (an example):
Family insiders say that the two young people formed a relationship made illicit by a family feud. The young woman, Juliet Capulet, was already promised to someone else. According to our source, the young lovers married in secret. A close friend of Romeo Montague told us that he had killed a member of her family and was banished . In order to avoid an arranged marriage, Juliet took a drug that gave her the appearance of death. Upon receiving false information that lead him to believe she was dead, Romeo no longer wished to live. Allegedly, he returned to her side and poisoned himself. She woke up to find him dead and, wild with grief, killed herself...
Any questions?
Your homework task is due on the 3rd October. Here is a copy of the slides I discussed with you today in class:
YOU ARE A JOURNALIST FOR A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER (TABLOID OR BROADSHEET) AND YOUR EDITOR HAS ASKED YOU TO COVER THE STORY OF TWO YOUNG LOVERS DISCOVERED DEAD IN A CHURCH TOMB.
Include details of plot
and character developments
Focus on the modern version of
the story and report on it as you
would expect to see it done now.
You need to create an attention-grabbing headline that would make readers buy your newspaper. Here are some examples:
Crazy kids killed in cemetery. Feuding families feel the fall out
Exiled Montague in suicide horror
Love's young dream - shattered!
Family feud ends in graveyard drama. Priest implicated
You will need to give an overview of the story in your article.
Think about:
What are the essential ingredients of the story?
Which characters do you need to keep and which can be edited out?
Beginning it (an example):
Family insiders say that the two young people formed a relationship made illicit by a family feud. The young woman, Juliet Capulet, was already promised to someone else. According to our source, the young lovers married in secret. A close friend of Romeo Montague told us that he had killed a member of her family and was banished . In order to avoid an arranged marriage, Juliet took a drug that gave her the appearance of death. Upon receiving false information that lead him to believe she was dead, Romeo no longer wished to live. Allegedly, he returned to her side and poisoned himself. She woke up to find him dead and, wild with grief, killed herself...
Any questions?
