9-11 News Writing Project.
Welcome to class.
The date is September 11, 2001.
President George W. Bush is in the first year of his presidency. The country is doing very well financially.
Early in the morning, you turn on the radio and hear a terrifying news report: an airplane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. These are some of the tallest buildings in America.
At first, you think it's a joke, but then the reports keep coming in. It's very real.
You hurry over to school so you're not late for your classes and your teacher has the TV on. You see the World Trade Center on fire. Thick black smoke and flames are coming out.
A chill goes down your arms and you hope that nobody was in those towers, but you know there were.
As you continue watching, a second plane strikes the other tower. A huge explosion follows. Now you know something horrible is happening. All of a sudden you realize this is a carefully planned terrorist attack.
Less than an hour later, you watch as the first tower crumbles to the ground in a matter of seconds. You see people running, screaming for their lives. If you watch carefully, you can see people jumping out of the windows of the building to their deaths.
Throughout the day you go to your classes in fear. You continue to watch the news and learn that another airplane crashed into the Pentagon and another airplane was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania after a brave crew stopped a potential terrorist attack.
This was my life on September 11, 2001.
The date is September 11, 2001.
President George W. Bush is in the first year of his presidency. The country is doing very well financially.
Early in the morning, you turn on the radio and hear a terrifying news report: an airplane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. These are some of the tallest buildings in America.
At first, you think it's a joke, but then the reports keep coming in. It's very real.
You hurry over to school so you're not late for your classes and your teacher has the TV on. You see the World Trade Center on fire. Thick black smoke and flames are coming out.
A chill goes down your arms and you hope that nobody was in those towers, but you know there were.
As you continue watching, a second plane strikes the other tower. A huge explosion follows. Now you know something horrible is happening. All of a sudden you realize this is a carefully planned terrorist attack.
Less than an hour later, you watch as the first tower crumbles to the ground in a matter of seconds. You see people running, screaming for their lives. If you watch carefully, you can see people jumping out of the windows of the building to their deaths.
Throughout the day you go to your classes in fear. You continue to watch the news and learn that another airplane crashed into the Pentagon and another airplane was brought down in a field in Pennsylvania after a brave crew stopped a potential terrorist attack.
This was my life on September 11, 2001.
9-11 Videos.
VIDEO: Timeline of Events on September 11, 2001
VIDEO: How the Twin Towers Collapsed
Sample Notes.
Why were the 9-11 attacks News?
- What is news?
- Why do people want news?
- What do people want to get from the news?
- Who determines what is news?
- Where does news happen?
- How is news written?
Elements of News.
Writing news is a lot like writing in a journal. You record the most important things that happened and write them in a way that makes the most sense to your readers.
You Write the News.
Your assignment is to imagine you are a journalist working for The New York Times, one of the largest newspapers in the world.
Your editor (boss) just assigned you to write the story of what happened. You need to write the news report. Remember, millions of people will read what you write, so it needs to be well written.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Write the paper in Microsoft Word. Save to My Documents.
2. Your story needs a headline, which is like a title.
3. Your story needs a byline, which looks like this:
By: Seth R. Hawkins
4. Your story needs to be written in paragraphs and tell what happened on 9/11. Provide as much detail as possible. The more detail you include, the more people will enjoy reading it.
5. Your story needs to be correctly spelled and must use correct punctuation and grammar. Use spell check!
6. At the end of your story, include your e-mail address.
Your editor (boss) just assigned you to write the story of what happened. You need to write the news report. Remember, millions of people will read what you write, so it needs to be well written.
REQUIREMENTS
1. Write the paper in Microsoft Word. Save to My Documents.
2. Your story needs a headline, which is like a title.
3. Your story needs a byline, which looks like this:
By: Seth R. Hawkins
4. Your story needs to be written in paragraphs and tell what happened on 9/11. Provide as much detail as possible. The more detail you include, the more people will enjoy reading it.
5. Your story needs to be correctly spelled and must use correct punctuation and grammar. Use spell check!
6. At the end of your story, include your e-mail address.