Our grade six class (am) are starting a three week project to develop a podcast on a news story. Today, students joined one of eight news departments (e.g. sports, entertainment, culture, science and technology etc....) for our class newspaper. Each department will be responsible for researching stories at the school, city, and national level. Students will then write a news story and obtain primary (e.g. through Skype, phone calls, interviews) and secondary sources (e.g. through research) to support their writing. Finally, they will put their news story, their interviews, and class comments on their article into a podcast. We will be focusing the majority of our mornings on this project but some of the work will have to be completed at home. Students will receive a project organizer this week which will outline the tasks to be completed over the project's timeline. Please encourage your child to look through newspapers and other news media to become familiar with the structure and components of a news story. As the project progress, I will post more information on the blog.
