If students were the editor of the newspaper and had to decide which story would be the featured story or column, they would select
- "Man Charged in Death at Club" by Laura Heinauer (Section B- Metro&State page 1) or
- "Ugly But Effective: Defense Puts Cowboys Back on Winning Track" by Jaime Aron (Section C -Sports page 1)
Criteria they used to select these stories:
- Stories were about topics familiar to them (first one is about a place that a lot of my students know about because it is in their neck of the woods/second one--many are Cowboy fans)
- Wording of bylines ("death" and "winning track")
- Second article --picture caught reader's attention
When discussing news story vs. feature story vs. editorial vs. column, I requested that the groups find examples of each in the newspaper and then we discussed how each one was written and which was more interesting. Students gravited toward the feature story rather than the news story because there wasn't too many facts to remember in the feature story examples and they were more interesting to read. The editorial and columns were not as interesting because the issues being discussed were not familiar to the students. The discussions I heard among the 5 groups were engaging and ran rather smoothly. Each group had a scribe, a time keeper, a spokesperson, a reader and an editor that paraphrased or summarized the groups comments into 10-15 words.
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