Jack Kelley

He was a USA today reporter, he was in the hot water because he lied and plagiarized, as well as faked major stories, he had the option to resign or get fired. Kelley decided to resign after having at least 8 stories like this. This relates to Stephen Glass, in the way that they both faked stories, yet Glass's stories didn't have any real quotes at all and Kelley's quotes were plagiarized. Similar but different.

The Shattered Glass: Option One

Well, in my opinion Stephen Glass looked guilty from the second I saw him on the screen. With all the points you have made in the assignment, just proves that he is 100% lying in all of his own stories. The bags under his eyes hinted the idea that he works very hard, maybe a little too hard. He seemed to be a bit more caught up in the idea of praise and credit for something good. He faked the stories to specifically please the crowd and the sources. The idea that Stephen Glass said that the editor should defend his writers no matter what, kind of throws editors under the bus. Because is something like this were to happen again, I think the editor has the right to stand aside and be upset with his writer. When Glass decided to go into law school, he seemed upset about it because he feels like he was forced to because of his parents. I feel like it would be tough on Glass as well with the fact that he won't get that much praise that he so much desires. Glass seemed to lie about everything all of his notes were scenes from his head and he never had real evidence to prove anything. He seemed to have always say "it's in my notes". Yet, are the notes real notes...

Feature Profile: The World Traveler

     McCallum High School teacher, full time mom, and part-time world traveler, Mrs. Carrasco does it all. Many may know her as the human geography teacher or the world geography teacher, but just like the world she has many layers. Mrs. Carrasco has now been a part of the Student Leaders Abroad, Educational Tours program for about 3 years now. She has traveled to the Dominican Republic twice and is preparing for this year's trip to Germany and the Netherlands. Mrs. Carrasco looks forward to these trips to see, "The amount of growth, that I see in the students in such a short period of time..". She is strongly convinced that being a geography teacher, as part of her professional job, is that she is called to learn about the world around us in person. Even though, the world is extremely fun and exciting to learn about Mrs. Carrasco can not help the fact that her children are at home. "I miss my kids...I miss them and they stay with my parents and that's hard...", Mrs. Carrasco shares. Her mind may be half way across the world, exploring the beauty of the world around us but she most definitely has her heart with her children. However, she may not be connecting and attending her own biological children at home but while staying at the Dominican Republic she helps the kids in need. "The first time was great because it was brand new...and we didn't really know what we were getting into, but then the second time was great because the Dominican students, that we met when we were there the first time, were so excited to see us come back." Carrasco shares, "They said they've never had a student group come back to their school twice, which was really exciting for us.".
Mrs. Carrasco has been an amazing influence to inspire her students to explore the world around them, she advices that "Sometimes travel seems like it's expensive but I think the kind of experiences you get out of it are worth it, that it seems like it is worth the investment, I think it changes people's attitudes when they decided what majors they want to do...". She has yet to explore the rest of the world with her family, students and her self.

The Mourning Anchor

I thought this piece was really well written and composed. If the author wanted us to hate this person after reading the article than he did an amazing job. Description was well done and so was the overall plot including organization. This article was pretty lengthy, which was a down side because I felt lost at certain points, so maybe if it was shorter it would be more affective and it would probably keep the readers attention a lot more, I can see why you like this article mr. winter, and I noticed it was about sports again! hahaha, however basically I thought the piece was really well composed and done. Maybe something a bit shorter next time.

Jake Scott Article Summary

    Well this article was actually pretty different from the past articles we have read. This author of this article actually included himself a lot in the story. I like how it was split up in sections giving us the time because we see more of the mood the interviewee might have at these points. This feature profile was basically about a football player who really never decided to take the credit he deserved and just escaped the world. Which I guess gives us an insight of a celebrity's life, which in mh option is very interesting. I know we always talk about how to exclude ourselves from the story, but the way this was written I think including the author in the story was great, he did it in a subtle way, he never included emotion which I think was great. He only had facts and facts only. I liked how it pictured the scene of Hawaii because he made me feel as a reader as if I were walking down the Main Street with them, you can really tell that the author wrote with passion and enjoyment in this piece. They followed the guidelines that we read last class really well!! Nice feature profile pick mr.winter. however I have noticed you have a soft spot for sport stories!!!!!

On Sports Summary

This article goes over how to write profile stories. It touches the subjects of conflics, news angles, settings, characters, voices and the idea of writing with an authority. The idea of adding conflicts in the story is supported by the author and to make the piece a bit more understandable the author suggests that you would need to find the main conflict in order to write the actual profile piece. In the  idea of the news angle the author challenges you to actually think about why you are actually writing the story and to make sure you are including your reason in your piece, you can't just write a story because that person is your favorites more like you wrote about them because of a recent success or maybe the reason could be death. The setting is pretty emphasized in this piece. The author makes sure that we need to set a physical place for the main character to be in so the story makes sense, we can't just say some thing like "she had fun", because we don't know what she is having fun with and where she is at the moment she could be at a water park or carnival or a friends house. Therefore making the reason of having a time an d place very important. The author then goes on to explain the idea of transmitting the character to the reader. The next idea explained was the idea of writing with an authority, which is to basically emerge yourself into the story and to tell the story as if you were to know that person one on one. The last theme was voice, voice was explained to give us the idea that we do have voices as writers yet sometimes in my opinion we always have to be careful because the voice should be calm so the reader doesn't seem like we are very opinionated and that we expect them to understand and agree with us. But we have got have a voice that lets them think yet still persuade them just a TINY bit to what we think but let the reader still have their on ideas and opinions.

Types of Lead

1. Quote Lead
http://classic.esquire.com/m-john-sack/?source=esquire/?tpcc=Nieman

2. Description (person)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/12/loss-and-love/a19pcWz6WF5nNozPPItwYI/story.html

3. Narrative
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/sports/beyond-the-finish-line.html?hp&_r=0&referer=http://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/notable-narrative-beyond-the-finish-line-by-tim-rohan/#h%5BBhrTrh,2,TcaTwa,2,MhtMha,1%5D

4. Description (site)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/06/08/magazine/world-cup-curse-of-maracana.html?_r=0

5. Anecdotal
http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2012/reports/juniper/

Features !!

(1)   Dies the Victim,  Dies the City

      I am going to be completely honest, i did not like it. The death at the beginning was really well written and kept my attention for a while but it lost me towards the end. It was too much information, and it was not really painting a picture in my head so i got bored and drained with too much information at the same time that it just lost everything into it. Detail was very good at the beginning as well, did not like the ending much, but i did love the ending sentence, just wish it was like that the entire story.

It's an Honor

      Since the beginning, i was hooked with the word gravediggers. This feature was a lot more detailed and had more of the movie feels. I like how it starts with waking up in the morning and eating breakfast, because it is something we can all mostly relate to. It also paints the picture of the how it must feel to be there. The story it's self was pretty interesting to me, but in my opinion nothing tops the cheerleader story. I challenge you to find something like the cheerleader story Mr. Winter, it was really well written.


(2)    1. Leads
        2. Descriptive
        3. Narrative
        4. Startling Statement
        5. Twist
        6. Direct Quote
        7. Transitions
        8.  Don't State the Obvious
        9. Tie Ending with Lead
       10.  Avoid adding yourself to the story

 I put them in this order just because, i felt like leads are the most important just for the reason that they need to capture the audiences attention.  Descriptive is important because it allows the reader to visualize what's going on in the story and isn't that the most important thing?  The narrative is what tells the story, wouldn't that be extremely important, with no narrative there is no story.  Starting  statement and twist go together they both add the drama and drama captures the readers attention.   Direct quotes allow the reader to know what the actual person was feeling at that moment.  Transitions,  make the story move smoothly without confusing the reader for  that it makes it as an important part in the future writing.  From number eight down, they are all statements we have talked about before. Just stating the obvious on the last ones.

Current Events Warm-Up

The winner of the democrat party was Hilary Clinton, and the winner for the republican party was Ted Cruz. However, both had two opponents trailing right behind them. My family and I never really follow the elections as much as others do, however, we do always point out that when it come to the people voting they say things that attract all people in some way, but yet they make it more democratic or republican. I like how one of the participants said that there was a "virtual tie", because honestly from here on out it is about pleasing the people and being careful with what you say. In my opinion the outcome could honestly be anything with seeing the score this close. I guess we will just have to wait and see.