- define journalism and distinguish it from mass communications
- define laws, ethics, and policy
- analyze landmark legal cases in high school journalism
- identify and describe legal restrictions on journalism
- try out strategies for generating story ideas
- find and use physical sources in the staff room and the library
- access public records for news
- locate and evaluate information in computer databases and on the Internet
- prepare thoroughly for interviews
- manage a productive interview session
- write different types of interview stories
- organize his/her thoughts to start writing
- identify and describe various options for story leads
- structure and write a news story
- organize and srite special types of news stories
- record and verify quotations accurately
- attribute quotations correctly
- place quotations effectively in his/her stories and punctuate them correctly
- organize his/her material to write a feature story
- follow guidelines for writing an editorial
- follow guidelines for making columns and reviews interesting and readable
- ask and answer the right questions in order to write good reviews
- follow guidelines for writing pre-game, game and post-game stories
- use Pagemaker and Photoshop to design a page in the newspaper
- investigate incidents of alleged journalistic misconduct similar to the one portrayed in "Shattered Glass" for insight into their impact on the credibility of American journalism
- determine the role the media plays in the presidency
- discuss the affect the media has on the public
- discuss how the media can be used to mislead the public