Welcome back to exciting work!!!

Winter break is over and now it's time to get back to work! You have two assignments for the next two weeks:
1. Propose at least one article from your blog to publish in the school blog (this is INDIVIDUAL WORK - I think that some of you more than one piece to publish so go ahead and make your proposal for as many as you think you'd like your schoolmates to read),
AND
2. Choose one of the following options, which you can do IN PAIRS:

A. An interview with the group of 7th graders who won an award in a Latin American science fair. For this, you'd need to talk to one of the 7th grade preceptores to help you set up a meeting with the whole group. Find out if you can include the adults that guided them in the project. If it's not possible during the school day this week, you should try to get together at noon, at school.

Before the interview:
Part of your preparation is: a) read the press releases about this event, which you can find in La Gaceta and maybe the other Tucuman newspapers -the school has some of these... so ask around!; b) prepare a set of questions for the interview.

During the interview:
Record the interview with a walkman or tape recorder.
Take pictures. The recording and the pics will prove to be crucial when you write the article.
Once you start the interview, you may add more questions, and pursue a line of questioning that came up while talking to them.

After the interview:
Go over the details and the focus/emphasis you want to give your article. Discuss this with your partner. Then it's time to write your first draft which you will email me on the first Monday after the end of school week.

B. School Week
Choose an area, such as cultural events, evening events, sports, etc. Take pics of the event, talk to the people who attended or participated, take notes of important, interesting, outstanding information that others may be interested in reading about. Though apparently easy, this task is more challenging because you need to find the interesting angle of anything that may be going on in your event. Remember it should be worth reading it!

Both of your assignments are due Monday August 6. If you turn in either of them late, you will lose a point (10% of your grade) for every 24-hour period of your delay. You should email them to me as a Word document attachment.

I'm open to questions, comments or to clarify any aspect of the work. Also, I'm open to suggestions or alternatives! I'm looking forward to reading your reports!!! :)