High School Journalism

In many years of teaching high school English, I taught Journalism for nineteen and wrote occasional news and feature articles for magazines and newspapers. During all those years, I integrated journalistic writing in my English classes as well because it is mostly concise and structured. After I retired from high school teaching, I taught classes of adults whose purpose was to publish their works, and again I used a lot of the principles of journalism. I bought a copy of HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM to help one of my friends who is faced with the daunting task of teaching six classes of twelfth graders who have failed to pass state tests required for graduation. In spite of their circumstances (no diploma without passing the test), the majority are boys and they are very hard to motivate. I suggested that my friend teach a unit on sports writing and sports broadcasting early in the school year. Who can resist all those football action verbs?!!! Your book has excellent guidelines for sports writing, AND the broadcasting can double as a speech requirement. It's a win-win for teacher and students. Jan Spurgeon -- author of GRAMMAR GREMLINS: A LITTLE BLUE BOOK OF REVIEW and STORYLETS--a collection of first chapters to inspire new authors.Available on Amazon.com

Just slightly older than the workbook, but it goes along pretty well...Get the workbook to have good reinforcement for high school journalism students. Highly recommend.

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Convers all basics of high school journalism, many good examples. Not current with latest technology, but a very usable text. I'm considering ordering a class set, if the shipping cost isn't too high.

I just came here looking to buy 30 of these for my classroom, but not at (LOL) $79.95.