Media - lesson 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Media and text types 4V 

Lesson 2
Today's plan:

Writing portfolio information & practice

• Tip! Take notes (or pictures of important slides)

What's the difference between a
broadsheet and tabloid newspaper?

Let's take a look at some of your articles in OneNote

Structure 

1. 
   Is the title of the news article​
2. 
   Should be short
3. 
   Does not include a lot of detail​
4. 
   Should catch the readers’ attention​
5. 
   Tries to summarize the main idea or subject of the article​
6. 
   Is often printed in larger letters than the rest of the article, and the major words are capitalized

Structure of an article

Headline (heading):

Byline:

1. Placed at the beginning of the article in bold print.
2. Notes name journalist and location.

Structure 

Paragraph structure

Lead paragraph(s):

Supporting paragraph(s):

1. Is found at the beginning of the article. 
2. The lead ​ should answer the questions “who”, “what”, “when”, “why”, “where”, and “how”. ​ 
3. 
   The ‘skeleton’ of the story can be found here.

1. Follow the lead​
   .
2. 
   Develop the ideas​.
3. 
   Give more information in the form of explanations, details, quotes. ​ 
4. 
   Are often found on subsequent pages.

Which paragraph is the lead paragraph?

1. first
2. second
3. third
4. last

Which questions does the
lead paragraph answer?

Types of articles

There are a lot of different types of articles, but you need to know these:

• News story or news report
  
• Feature article (to inform and entertain the readers. The "story behind the news story".
• Letter to the editor
  
• Column

Feature article

• Front page
• Longer
• purpose = to inform
• Short paragraphs
• Images support topic of article

Letter to the editor

• Dear Sir,
• Reaction to an article (mention it!)
• Be concise and have focus
• Give your opinion/reaction
• Short, in paragraphs
• End with name
• No images

Column

• purpose = to pursuade
• Opinion on anything
• short paragraphs
• no images

Writing portfolio

For your portfolio you need to:

• Write 2 different types of texts
• Display your understanding of these different text types in your writing and layout,
• Be creative!

Homework

Read page 20 through 31 in your reader and start brainstorming your ideas for your writing portfolio (choose two text types).

*find&read examples
*determine your subject 
*brainstorm

• News story or news report
  
  
• Feature article
  
  
  
• Letter to the editor
  
  
  
• Column