Objective: To identify the features of a broadsheet comment article.
Outcome: To apply our understanding to write a short comment piece, using the required features.
Literacy objective: Effect/Affect
This lesson starts with a discussion to whether the opinions of the journalist should ever influence their writing - issues of bias. Then this leads onto comment articles (opinion writing).
It then discusses the features of opinion writing and what it must include e.g. the news peg and a leading statement which shocks the audience. Main body of the text - writers opinion, quotes and main issues. Conclusion - summary and driving-home the most powerful point. Main task is to read though a comment piece to identify the features.
Then pupils are given four briefs with provocative statements on with issues, quotes, statistics etc.
Task: Your job as a journalist is to write a comment (opinion) article about one statement. There are news facts, quotes and statistics included in your brief to help you, and the structure to follow.
Plenary to calculate the headline count for different headlines, then create their own.
Outcome: To apply our understanding to write a short comment piece, using the required features.
Literacy objective: Effect/Affect
This lesson starts with a discussion to whether the opinions of the journalist should ever influence their writing - issues of bias. Then this leads onto comment articles (opinion writing).
It then discusses the features of opinion writing and what it must include e.g. the news peg and a leading statement which shocks the audience. Main body of the text - writers opinion, quotes and main issues. Conclusion - summary and driving-home the most powerful point. Main task is to read though a comment piece to identify the features.
Then pupils are given four briefs with provocative statements on with issues, quotes, statistics etc.
Task: Your job as a journalist is to write a comment (opinion) article about one statement. There are news facts, quotes and statistics included in your brief to help you, and the structure to follow.
Plenary to calculate the headline count for different headlines, then create their own.
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