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Feature Articles
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What is a Feature Article?

• An article, in general, is a written piece that
  is usually non-fiction and is a stand-alone part
  of a book, newspaper, or magazine.
• A FEATURE ARTICLE is a creative/specific article
  that deals with real events, issues, and trends.
• Focus on people not facts/story not facts
• Catchy Title
• Specific and interesting

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Purpose of a Feature Article

• How many of you keep up with the news? Why/Why
  not?
• Why is it important/or not important that we know
  whats going on in the world around us?
• Aside from regular, factual news stories a
  feature article highlights specific things.
• What kinds of specific, feature articles have you
  seen lately?
• What did you learn?

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Example
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7 Types of Feature Articles

1. Human-Interest
2. Personality
3. How - To
4. The Best
5. Past Event
6. Informational
7. The News Feature

• In groups, you will take one of these 7 types and
  present its aspects (bullet points) to the class
  in a song.
• Objectives
• List 3 examples of a news topic you could focus
  on.
• Write your song
• (3-4 lines over the description of the type)

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Homework

• Find a feature article in a newspaper or magazine
  and bring it to class with you.
• Tip ask family or friends for their old
  newspapers or magazines
• (bring them in for class use if youd like! ?)

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Folder Mystery Activity

• In your groups you will be given a folder with 7
  numbered examples of feature articles. Each
  article represents one of the 7 types of feature
  articles.
• You must work with your team to determine the
  type of feature that each article represent as
  well as give a defense (3 reasons) for your
  decision.
• Put the number, the type, and the three reasons
  of defense for each article on your own paper
  (one paper per group)
• Example
• Article 1 How To feature article because
• 1. It teaches the reader how to do something
  specific and interesting.
• 2. It makes a difficult process seem easier and
  explains why it is important to learn how to do
  this.
• 3.It breaks the process down into steps and
  lists all of the materials needed.

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• Your paper will look like this

Names _____ represents the ___________ type
of feature article because 1. 2. 3. ____
represents the ______________ type of feature
article because 1. 2. 3. And so on
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Feature Article Example Activity

• In your groups find an example of each of the 7
  types of feature articles.
• Number each example.
• Fill out the worksheet by placing the example
  of the type and defend why that example
  represents that type.
• STAPLE ALL TOGETHER AND PLACE IN YOUR FOLDER!

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Feature Article Example Activity

• You will present your articles to the class by
  briefly describing them and explaining why you
  feel they represent a certain type (each member
  must present at least one).
• After presenting place your articles on the
  corresponding posters around the room.

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• Get out your feature article handout
• Human-Interest
• Personality
• How - To
• The Best
• Past Event
• Informational
• The News Feature

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Participle Quiz

• Write 5 sentences using the following subjects
  that have participial phrases. Underline the
  participial phrase and draw an arrow to the noun
  or pronoun it describes.
• Mickey Mouse
• Paris
• The happy penguin
• The group of students
• The American flag

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Vocabulary in Feature Articles

• What are some strategies you use to determine the
  meaning of an unfamiliar word in a piece of
  writing?
• Review
• What is context?
• How can we use context clues?

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Context Clues in Feature Articles

• There are two articles in the back of the
  classroom. You can decide which article you
  choose first.
• Read the article.
• Take the article and fill out the vocabulary
  chart that is on the next slide. (Same chart for
  both articles).
• Must have all 11 pre-selected vocabulary words in
  your chart, you add more as you choose.

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Vocabulary Chart
New Vocabulary What I think it means. What I KNOW it means.
1. Vitriol
2. Polarizing
3. Manic
4. Detractors
5. Epitomized
6. Deft
7. Devout
8. Feats
9. Endeavors
10. Cavalry
11. Competent
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• What I think it means this is based on the
  context of the article. By looking at the words
  around the new vocabulary word and the meaning of
  the sentence, what do you think it means?
• What I KNOW it means look in the dictionary and
  find out FOR SURE what the word means.
• Underneath your chart, write each word in a new
  sentence that you create now that you know the
  meaning.

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Context Clues in Feature Articles

• After filling out your chart and writing your
  sentences. Take your first post-it note and fill
  it out for one of the articles.
• Repeat with 2nd article ?

Post It Note (1 for each article) 1.Title of
Article 2. Type of feature article 3. Reason 1
why it is that type 4. Reason 2 why it is that
type.
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Happy Valentines Day

• http//vimeo.com/33698394
• What are the themes from the documentary?
• Based on those themes, what types of feature
  articles could you create?
• Respond to the documentary by writing a
  2-columned, 5-paragraph feature article. Based on
  what weve already covered and the example you
  have beside you do the best you can.
• Use 5 of our new vocabulary from yesterday.

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Text Features

• Headings
• Fonts
• Subheadings
• Bullets
• Offsets
• Text Boxes
• Color Ink
• Italics
• Bold Font
• Underlining
• All Capital Letters
• Pictures

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Text Features for Feature Articles

• As we discuss the 12 types of text features that
  a writer can use in feature articles, take
  detailed notes using your note taking guide
• What is the text feature?
• How does it enhance an article.

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Draw It!

• As we cover these text features, you will create
  an example as we go.
• Draw a fake feature article, taking up a whole
  piece of paper and add each type of text feature
  in some way as we go along.

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• Headings Title of entire feature article
• Subheading Titles for each section within the
  feature article.
• Fonts You can use various fonts to add style or
  set a certain mood/tone in your feature article.
• Bullets organizing information by separating
  related information.
• Pictures/Drawings Can add emotion, feeling and a
  personal connection for the reader. Visual
  representation for visual learners.
• Text Boxes allow you to add words anywhere on
  page

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• Color Ink Adds dimensions to your feature
  article. Make it visually appealing.
• Italics, Underlining, Bold Font adds to visual
  effect and can make certain words or portions
  stand out.
• All Caps adds emotion to your writing. Can make
  you seem very passionate, excited, or angry. Will
  make a word or portion really STAND OUT!!!

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Text Features for Feature Articles

• You will receive an example feature article
  entitled Dealing with Bullies
• Read the entire article
• Find two text features used in this article
• On your own paper Identify the two text features
  you found
• Explain the purpose of each text feature you have
  found and how it enhances the article (2
  separate paragraphs).

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Text Features for Feature Articles

• Using your Macbook, you must choose from the
  provided websites and find 5 examples of text
  features within feature articles.
• Write/Document
• The website title
• Article title
• Text feature
• How it is used to help the article.
• (each a different type of text feature)

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Websites

• www.npr.org
• www.nytimes.com
• www.time.com
• http//www.tennessean.com/
• http//online.wsj.com/home-page

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Fact vs. Opinion

• Fact vs. Opinion Quiz
• Write F or O beside each statement for Fact or
  Opinion
• For all opinions, circle the word or words that
  signal the opinion.

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Fact vs. Opinion

• a factual statement can be verified or proven to
  be true.
• An opinion statement is a personal judgment or an
  expression of someones beliefs or feelings.
• Can be disagreed with.
• The word should can be a clue to identifying a
  statement of opinion.
• An opinion is how you THINK, FEEL, or, BELIEVE
  (motions).

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Discussion

• The moon is made of blue cheese.
• The lights are above the desks.
• My favorite color is blue.
• There should be a door on every house.
• We need oxygen to survive.

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Fact/Opinion Activity

• In pairs, search through the provided newspapers
  and magazines to find
• 5 examples of facts
• 5 examples of opinions
• Cut out and paste examples onto your paper.

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• JOURNAL What do all three of these pictures have
  in common?

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Vocab column

• LEAD
• - the beginning of your feature article.
• - leads the reader into a feature article.
• - attention-getting

What are some attention-getting techniques?
Descriptions, interesting facts, stories,
questions, or summaries
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• There are 3 different types of leads.
• Summary
• Creative
• Punch
• We are going to look at an example of each and I
  would like each of you to come up with your own
  definition of each type of lead.

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Summary Lead

• The purchase of new school buses will strain
• next years budget, school board president
• Kathy Barr announced at the March 18th board
• meeting.

Based on the above example write your own
definition of a summary lead.
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Creative Lead

• Not even subzero temperatures could stop
  progress. With a thud, bulldozers churned the icy
  earth, beginning work on the new performance
  center.

Based on the above example write your own
definition of a creative lead.
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Punch Lead

• Eastmont cooks serve nearly 500 pounds of pasta
  each week for lunch.

Based on the above example write your own
definition of a punch lead.
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Lead Activity 1

• Using a laptop, you will go to this online news
  site and find an example of each type of lead in
  three separate articles.
• On your own paper you will answer the following
  for each of the three articles you find
• Title of Article
• Type of lead
• Defend why this article portrays that type of
  lead.

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• Number 1
• www.teentribune.com
• Number 2
• www.tennessean.com
• Number 3
• www.npr.org

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Writing a lead

• Create 3 leads (one of each type) for your
  favorite fairy tales.
• Ex. The Three Little Pigs, Snow White and the
  Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Just in case youre having a difficult time
  coming up with examples of fairy tales. Here are
  a few helpful links
• www.ivyjoy.com/fables
• www.cs.cmu.edu/spok/grimmtmp/
• Make sure to label what type of lead each is.

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Rapunzel

• A humans hair can easily support the weight of a
  man according to Nathan Harshman, Assistant
  Professor of Physics at American University in
  Washington, DC. This fact confirms the
  hair-raising story of a young girl trapped in a
  tower in a land far, far away.
• Type of lead Creative

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Feature Article Projecthttp//www.universalorland
o.com/harrypotter/

• On large pieces of posterboard, you are going to,
  in groups, write a feature article that has a
  great lead and is focusing on an interesting
  topic.
• Just like in many real feature articles, you are
  going to have the story wrapping around a
  picture.
• ONLY this isnt a normal picture, it will be a
  live action picture, Harry Potter style, with
  props and action.

Title
Live action picture
Story
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Feature Article Project

• You will decide together what your topic,
  heading, and subheadings will be. Each subheading
  will be an individual feature article.
• Each group member must be assigned one of the
  subheadings to compose. Make sure you have
  dialogue with one another over what to cover so
  that the whole story flows well.
• Actors then need to be assigned for your real
  life picture as well as the motions and speaking
  parts they will be performing.
• (project worth 50 pts)