Thursday, March 4, 2010

That Meeting - Broadsheet

Children of Zurich's elite litter excessively - Headmaster calls for action


Emergency meeting called to broadcast plan for action against the Zurich International School resembling a rubbish dump


On Monday morning, the students of the Zurich International School were called into an assembly lead by Headmaster McCloud, announcing the complaint of potential customers as they visited the school campus. Littering on school grounds must be discontinued.


In advisory groups, students will have a designated time period, cutting at their lunch time, in which it is their responsibility to clear the grounds of any waste. Should students not adhere to this action plan against, the school's reputation will be damaged and students will suffer consequences.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Broadsheets/ Black Banner Tabloids

Example: The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/03/james-bulger-killer-venables-prison

Headline

Jack Straw refuses to explain Jon Venables reincarceration

- loaded language
- naming
- does not use brevity

Deck
Justice secretary says it would be against the public interest for him to say why James Bulger killer has been sent back to jail

- loaded language
- fear
- answers "why"

Intro
The justice secretary, Jack Straw, apologised today for failing to disclose the reason why Jon Venables, one of the two killers of James Bulger, has been sent back to prison, but he said it would not be in the public interest for him to do so.

- answers "who": Jack Straw and Jon Venables
- answers "what":

2nd Paragraph
Venables, now 27 and living under a new identity, was put back in jail last week after breaching parole, the Ministry of Justice confirmed earlier.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

That Meeting - Tabloid

Rich brats trash school


Students of the Zurich International School are trashing their own school grounds, for which their parents pay excessively high fees. This must stop now.


In groups, students will now have to clean up designated areas of the grounds, a job usually way below their "standards".

Tabloid

The Sun
Memory loss man is named
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2873829/Memory-loss-man-is-named.html

Headline
loaded language - memory loss
alliteration - man is named
brevity - 5 words

Deck

A MYSTERY man found unconscious on a beach with no memory can be named today as office clerk Yousuf Ali Roomi.

loaded language - unconscious


First paragraph
The 26-year-old was identified by his fiancée after The Sun published his photo.

-Grabs readers attention
-Intertextuality to an earlier story in The Sun
-Into

Monday, March 1, 2010

Extended Essay Book List

Berkeley: The New Student Revolt: Introduction by Mario Savio

o By Hal Draper

o ISBN – 10: 0916695170

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 0916695170

Berkeley at War: The 1960s

o By W.J. Rorabaugh

o ISBN – 10: 0195066678

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 0195066678

The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s

o By Robert Cohen, Reginald E. Zelnik

o ISBN – 10: 0520233549

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 0520233546

Children of Privilege: Student Revolt in the Sixties: A Study of Student Movements in Canada, the United States, and West Germany

o By Cyril Levitt

o ISBN – 10: 0802065376

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 0802065377

Urban Revolt: Ethnic Politics in the Nineteenth-Century Chicago Labor Movement

o By Eric L. Hirsch

o ISBN – 10: 0520065857

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 0520065857

The Social Role of the University Student

o By Florian Znaniecki

o ISBN – 10: 8385060707

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 8385060703

The Conflict of Generations: the character and significance of student movements

o By Lewis Samuel Feuer

o ASIN: B0006BWI6C

Rebellion in the University

o By Seymour Lipset

o ISBN – 10: 1560005963

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 1560005964

America in Transition: Social Movements in Berkeley in the Early Sixties

o By Gergely Janko

o ISBN – 10: 3639116960

o ISBN – 13: 978 – 3639116960

American Social Movements – The Free Speech Movement

o By Bradley Steffens

o ISBN – 10: 0737711566

o ISBN – 13: 978 - 0737711561

Headlines

Downtown infested with penguinitis


Computers massacred by 'insider'


Georgian defeats snow and flu offense