Writing assignments + highlighting 5W's + H

12th grade

Yearbook writing assignments

•Write three brief (5 sentence minimum) 5W's + H (who, what, when, where, why and how) "mini" news story about an event that you observed, experienced, heard about, etc.

•Do not write in first person.

•Due on Friday of each week. No late work accepted unless excused absence. Absences do not exempt you from assignments.

•Put the date of the event, etc. at the top of each assignment.

•Create a template that has this color code for each assignment.

            Who

            What

            When

            Where

            Why

            How

•Highlight one 5W+H used in your written assignment using the color code. 

•Email all work to topperselfie@gmail.com as attachment or the body of the email no later than Friday of each week.
http://hillwoodyearbook.blogspot.com/2016/11/sending-emails.html

Your grade

• Correct number of sentences written in journalistic style (30 points)

• 5W's + H used and highlighted (60 points)

• Mechanics (grammar, spelling, punctuation) (10 points)

Example

         Who

         What

         When

         Where

         Why

         How

March 28, 2017

Mr. Jake Harper, who teaches US History at Hillwood High School, introduced his A day 3rd period AP History class to the origins of the US Civil War today. The class consists of 30 students, mostly 11th graders. Mr, Harper began the class with a 3 minute film clip about the Civil War. This was followed by a PowerPoint presentation describing causes of the war.

For the remainder of the class, students read from the US History textbook and answered questions about the opposing sides in the war.

First person narrative means writing from the "I" point of view. As in: I walked down the alley, I picked up the phone, I told Tony that he was going down if he didn't cough up the money by Saturday. 

First-person plural pronouns are forms of “we.”

Third person narrative form is writing from the omniscent point of view. Here, you use the he-she form.

Singular third person pronouns are “he,” “she,” “it,” “his,” “hers,” “him” and “her,” and third person plural pronouns are “they,” “them” and “their.” The number of people to which you are referring should always match the pronoun you choose (“he” to refer to one male, “they” to refer to more than one male).