1. Quick Review

2. If you had to write a newspaper headline for your weekend, what would it be?

3. Google Saves Toddler’s Life (and Marriage)
Hamilton Rules Broadway
Bandaid or Stitches?
Award Winning Family Takes Prize

4. What is a
Headline?

5. Declaring Alaska’s statehood
Nazi Germany surrenders
Declaring Alaska’s statehood
Prohibition
1940’s “War of the Worlds”
Before first stock market crash

6. How to Write a Headline
Headlines are usually written in bold and in a much larger size than the article text.
Front page headlines are often in upper case so that they can be easily read by the passing, potential customer.
It is also key for headlines to be short and to the point!

7. Today’s Headlines http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/ .

8. This is dialogue from the movie The Shipping News where the publisher is explaining to a new reporter how to create an effective headline…
Publisher: It's finding the center of your story, the beating heart of it, that's what makes a reporter. You have to start by making up some headlines. You know: short, punchy, dramatic headlines. Now, have a look, [pointing at dark clouds gathering in the sky over the ocean] what do you see? Tell me the headline.
Reporter: HORIZON FILLS WITH DARK CLOUDS?
Publisher: IMMINENT STORM THREATENS VILLAGE.
Protagonist: But what if no storm comes?
Publisher: VILLAGE SPARED FROM DEADLY STORM.

9. Your Assignment…

10. Read the passage from White Fang and answer the question.
Day 2
Read the passage from White Fang and answer the question.

11. Your Turn…

12. TODAY’S ACTIVITY
Writing Headlines
and
Creating a Newspaper
Rubric

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