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Teaching activities for introducing journalism to grades 7-10 students. Students will learn to identify weak and strong leads as they complete this printable. Good journalism is reporters that are able to write strong leads. This is a great activity for your grade 10 media class. Current issues include but are not limited to, disasters, conflict, health concerns, crime and political events. The task: Identify three news stories that convey an issue either locally nor internationally. For each story, determine if the lead is strong or weak and explain why: 1 Title: Lead: 2 Title: Lead: 3 Title: Lead: For the weakest story, re-write the lead: |
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