English 10
Here's what our media project will look like for Animal Farm. We'll be exploring journalism. You have options:

1. Develop a newspaper. This is a collaborative effort and it's designed on the cloud using google docs. Here's a template you might use. There are a few important jobs for this paper:
1. Editor: this is the person who makes the newspaper organized and look good. Often responsible for placement of images and deciding on the fonts and organization. There isn't as much writing for this job, but you must have the technical know-how to put it together and make it look like a newspaper.
2. Journalist: This is the author for articles to go into the paper. There are several types of journalists - sports, weather, breaking news, global news, and local news are the most common specialties. If your group has a weather journalist, they must also work on one other area. The journalist can be the photographer as well, but since this is the internet, there are plenty of images for your use.

1. Develop a news blog. Take a look at gawker.com. You can use blogspot or blogger as well. Create a blog that recreates the events of Animal Farm as a citizen of the farm. What's been going on? How have recent changes changed the face of the farm? Gossip? Drama? Blogs have images and are also perfectly capable of demonstrating journalism. For this assignment, they do not need an editor.

The project should reveal some major events of the novel as we progress. Blogs are a lot more editorial, meaning they typically come with a lot more opinions than a newspaper (keep in mind that Gawker does use the blog format to report news). Newspapers are less personal and focus more on telling and explaining the event. Newspaper groups should not be larger than 5 people; blog groups should not be larger than 3 people.