The Journalist's Role
Through the lens of 
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you will gather data about the Unnamed Storm of 1928. To assist you in note
taking skills, graphic organizers can be downloaded that will help you to
organize your data visually in order to help you to clarify your thinking
and to process, organize and prioritize this new information. You will use
sources listed on this page to compile your data, as well as additional information
provided by your classmates and instructor. You will then write your findings
in a Microsoft Word Document. The questions that a good journalist ask are
the five w's; who, what, when, where, and why. You are to address each of
these areas in order to provide the most reliable information for your paper.
Click on the documents below to download the graphic organizers to help you
gather and organize your data:
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer
Make sure you keep a list of the sources you used because you will have to cite these sources at the end of your newspaper.
First, open Microsoft Word 2007 by following the steps below:
Click the Start button, select Programs, and then click Microsoft Word from the menu list.
Click the Office button in the top left corner of the document windowand select new from the drop down menu.
Select new blank document:
Click the Office button again
Now you can begin gathering information to type in the document. Don't worry at this point about font or style. You are just to begin a rough draft.
Make sure you save your document each time you close it to save new information you have entered. This will take several class periods.
The following websites provide needed information about the storm of 1928. Remember to present the information in an interesting, but factual way. You want to provide your readers with an appealing presentation of material, yet you must keep it factual.
Excerpts from 'Florida's Hurricane History' by Jay Barnes
Storm Watch St. Petersburg Times
Creating a Newspaper Column in Microsoft Word 2007
Through the lens of 
, you will create a newspaper article that you will be responsible for posting in the community. The purpose of the newspaper article is to bring about community awareness of the storm of 1928 and what devastation it brought to our area.
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Delete Unnecessary Spaces and Returns:
- Open the article you created on the Unnamed Storm of 1928. You may need to turn on nonprinting characters located on the Home Tab
or press Shift + Ctrl + *, and delete any unnecessary hard returns or spaces at the end of paragraphs.
- Open the article you created on the Unnamed Storm of 1928. You may need to turn on nonprinting characters located on the Home Tab
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Set Line Spacing to Single Space
- Select all your text in you document (Ctrl + A) and set line spacing to single space by opening the paragraph dialog box on the Page Layout tab by clicking the arrow shown below:
- At the Paragraph dialog box with the Indents and Spacing tab set the spacing at 0 pt before and after and line spacing to single as shown below:
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Set Text in Document to Times New Roman 11
- Select all the text in your document, excluding your title, and set it to Times New Roman 11
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- Select all the text in your document, excluding your title, and set it to Times New Roman 11
- If you have not included a title for your paper, do so now. It should appear at the top of your document centered. Place your cursor on a blank line above the body of your text and set your text to 14 Point Times New Roman Bold centered located on the Home tab.
- Also include side headings. Side headings should make your newspaper easier to read and more organized. It should describe what the paragraph is all about (Before the Storm, The Death Toll, Etc.). They should also be formatted to Bold
Times New Roman 11 .
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Create Two Columns
In Word, create a two-column newsletter from the copied text. Be sure your title is not included within the columns. The title should appear centered across both columns in your newsletter, again not in the columns itself. To format the text into two newspaper columns follow the steps below:- Position the insertion point at the left margin of the first heading (the beginning of the body of the document-below the title).
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Click the Page Layout Tab then then Click Columns and select more columns from the drop down list.
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At the Columns dialog box click Two in the Presets section, place a check mark in the Line Between check box, and click This Point Forward at the Apply to drop-down list.
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Click OK or press Enter.
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Set Document Tabs to .02
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On the Page Layout tab click the paragraph arrow to open the Paragraph dialog box. Then click the Tabs button to open the Tabs dialog box.
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Reset the Tabs from .05 to .02.
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Click OK to set the Tabs to .02.
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Fully Justify Text in Document
- Select all the text in your document except the title.
- On the home tab click the full justification alignment button
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Apply a Drop Cap to the First Paragraph
- Position the insertion point anywhere in the first paragraph.
- Click the Insert tab and select Drop Cap and select Dropped from the drop down list shown below:
- Click OK.
- Deselect the drop. (To do this with the mouse, click anywhere in the document screen outside the drop cap).
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Add Your Name At The End of Your Document
- Scroll to the end of your document and add your name.
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Insert a Picture That Complements Your Article
Insert an image from the following website to add a visual element to your newspaper in an appropriate location and adjust the wrapping style to Square. If the website is blocked search for pictures using a major search engine. (Remember, click on the inserted image, and click on text wrapping on the picture toolbar. ) Remember you will need to add the sources to your Cite Sources Section.
Lake Okeechobee Hurricane Pictures
To insert a picture follow the steps below:
Once you find the picture you need to save it to your student folder.
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Outside our lab environment all you would do is right click the picture and then navigate to your student folder and give it a name then click save.
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Inside the lab setting you will need to save it using a software called PrintKey which is free and downloaded on all the computers in the lab. Click here to view instructions on how to use PrintKey.
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Now that you have your photo in your folder you will need to insert it into your newspaper article. Place your cursor where you want you photo to display. You will need to place a line break to create a space for your photo to appear
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On the Insert tab click the picture icon.
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Navigate to your student photo and click on the photo you want to insert. Your photo should now appear where your cursor was placed.
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Spelling and Grammar Check
- On the top-left corner, click the Microsoft Office Button . At the bottom of the menu, click Word Options.
- The Word Options dialog appears. Click Proofing.
- From the Exceptions for menu, select the currently-open document name.
- Select or clear the Hide spelling errors in this document only and Hide grammar errors in this document only check boxes.
- Note To turn on or off automatic spelling and grammar checking for all documents, select All New Documents.
- Click OK.
- On the top-left corner, click the Microsoft Office Button
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Cite Sources Used at the End of Document Above Your Name
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Now you will list your sources used to write your newspaper and this also includes where you obtained your pictures. A useful website for how to format your cite sources list is listed below:
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Click the citation format you need and then the type of resource you wish to cite, (APA Style)
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Complete the Web form that appears with information from your source, and
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Click Make Citations to generate standard bibliographic and in-text citations.
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Copy and paste this text at the end of your newspaper, just above your name.
Save your work and turn it in for grading. Make sure you check the grading rubric before submitting.
First, open Microsoft Word by following the steps below:
