HCMS -- Week of October 27th

School/Grade: Hill Country Middle School (8th Grade Drama)
Headline: “KXAN Returns to Cable”By line/Author: Diane Holloway
Date Story Published: Thursday October 30th
Section of Newspaper: Front PagePage
Number Story Begins On: A1
Criteria for Selection: They are all excited about getting to watch “The Office” and “SNL” again.

The students were immediately interested in the front page news that announced their favorite T.V. shows would be back on air. They also wanted to talk about the World Series, and the Phillies triumph.

Their favorite picks were…
-- Feature: “Field Trip of Tormented Young Writers” (Pg 18 in the XL)
The students were really excited about the cool makeup featured in the story.
Some of them expressed wishes to start their own haunted house.

-- Column: “Design writers keep the tips practical” by Melanie Spencer
(Life and Arts Pg 1) They applied the ideas in the article to their lives.

-- Editorial: “How did attack story pass bloggers sniff test” by Leonard Pitts Jr.
(Pg. A13)
They thought it was interesting that someone who was “so out of control could get so much publicity”. They were curious why and how someone could do that sort of thing. It was interesting to hear the students discuss things that one might do to get attention at home vs. at school or even in their public lives and how much trouble they could get in for doing these things.