Thursday September 20: Fit To Print!

Greetings one and all,


Today,we are going to be working on a group project. To get started, you all need to do the following:

A)set up a group of either two or three people
B) have just one person in each group download the file found HERE

C) have another person in the group send me an email with your names and the phrase "group effort" in the subject line



OK, you ready? Good, let's get going!
You will notice that this document is setup to look like the front page of a newspaper.  (A newspaper is the funny tree-based things old people used to read before there were blogs.) 

BUT.......it needs to have stuff added to it. Like a slogan that you guys come up with. A picture to put in as a logo. There's a place to put a front page story, and a picture to go with that story, and some textboxes to make "callouts" And of course, the text is this dreadful "Times New Roman" awfulness....YUCK!!!!!

You have to make changes to all this stuff. I give you free reign to make any changes you like, as long as these rules are followed:

A) you keep the basic format I've setup -- in other words, don't remove the place to put a logo just because you don't want to make one

B) Make your paper appeal to a particular audience. Who would be your "readers"?  Old? Young? Hip? Square? Sports fans? Fashion followers? Computer geeks? People who are into money and finance? Politics and current events? Science news? 

It's all up to you!

C) Make sure you put in at least several different types of "front page" items..... the BEGINNINGS of different articles. PLUS, you should put in small little snippets, like the local weather, diet tips, ads for various products or events happening in your region

D) Include images, callouts and shapes, banners, pictures culled from "real" news sites etc etc

E) Fer cryin' out loud, make it look good. I'm an old, balding punk rocker: I'm so un-hip its a wonder my rear end doesn't fall off.  If you can't "out-style" me, you're in sorry shape

F) ALL YOUR WORK MUST BE SCHOOL APPROPRIATE!

Ok, time to get 'er done!

Mr. L