Assignments for Week 5

1. Read each others' Letters to the Next President and provide comments and editing notes. You should see the shared documents in your google docs folder (and an email notification if the writer chose to send an alert). Use the editing tools and especially the commentary tool to provide feedback on the content, grammar, and clarity of the letter. Make suggestions using the comment bubbles. The writer and myself should be able to see the readers' comments and editing immediately.

2. Check out other school-based news websites. Use this form to review what you like/disliked about these sites.

3. Identify a school or community event, issue or story for your first article. Brainstorm what you already know, ask yourself what questions you still have, do some research and then come up with a key question. Then, plan out where you need to gather information and interviews.

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1. The Lowell website was good but there was way to much text, maybe more images would be great.

2. Washington Webpage is nice yet a bit bland.

3. The Lincoln Log seemed a bit boring. Its to bland

I live in a community that is lacking lots of motivation. I go to a school that lacks acknowledgements. As a community there are many issue that need to be dealt with such as gang related violence. Almost every other month at least one person is shot or killed near were I live. However we can try to attempt to solve this problem? After going online and doing a bit of research myself, I found out that there are many programs that help teach young children about the danger of violence. The key answer to these problems is to teach the young people that its not okay to harm someone else, also its never good to try any type of drugs. Because in the long run it will hurt yourself and the people around you. I plan to spread the word about these programs that is being provided in the YMCA learning center. Its always best to know these things at a young age.