Headlines!

1.Electronics recycling Saturday in Central Austin

main verb: recycling

grammatical subject: electronics

McCallum High students collecting computers, cell phones, TVs and more.

main verb: collecting

grammatical subject: McCallum High students

I chose this as a prime example because it's about a good cause.

2.Imagery in Bastrop school mural stirs controversy

main verb: stirs

grammatical subject: Imagery in Bastrop school
Religious symbols, historical scenes cause some to call for painting's removal.

main verb: cause

grammatical subject: religious symbols, historical scenes

I chose this as a prime example because the headline makes you want to read more.

3.Storage units burglarized in aftermath of storms

main verb: burglarized

grammatical subject: Storage units

I chose this as a prime example because it has to do with a current event.

4.McKinney Roughs fire continues to burn

main verb:burn

grammatical subject: fire

I chose this as a prime example because the headline caught my eye.

5.Pedestrian killed along FM 1626

main verb: killed

grammatical subject: Pedestrian

I chose this as a prime example because it's something that happened local.

6.Fire at Universal Studios destroys sets, videos

main verb: destroys

grammatical subject: Fire

Blaze hits 'Back to the Future' courthouse, mechanical king kong

main verb:hits

grammatical subject: Blaze

I chose this as a prime example because it's something interesting that happened recently and I liked the headline.

REWRITTEN HEADLINE!~

"Quiet on the Set!"

"A fire at Universal Studios in California silences studios"

Statesman Feature Critique

A screenwriter's dream, or nightmare, plays out in West Texas

Former judge who handled parent-child seperations believes state on right track.



Thursday, May 01, 2008



Lead: The author is telling you about children from a polygamist group being taken away from their mothers.



Who:Children from Schleicher County Ranch polygamist group.

What: Authorities began removing more than four hundred children from a polygamist group.

When: Starting April 3,2008.

Where: West Texas

Why:They were taken from their parents,because some teenage girls in the polygamist group were found to be pregnant and abused.

Language: "The alternative is to turn a blind eye and tolerate these communities so that in isolated portions of Texas, you would have communities who were run by old men for the purpose of having sex with young girls and using the labor of women and children to support themselves."

Abbott has snagged a child-support evader, deterred a man from preying on children over the Internet and stopped the sale of fake international driver's licenses.

Overall Effect: This story made me really mad, that mothers would permit their teenage daughters to have sex with old men, also I was really mad that they abused the kids. I feel that all the kids should be taken away and all of the old men and the mothers should be put in jail for life.

Statesman News Critique

" Judge rules for Austin schools in student sex case"
May 7th, 2008

When: January 2007

Where:Austin, Texas
Why: The student had at first in January 2004 denied having sex with Johnston, but as of January 2007, is stating that they did have sex.
Who: A former Bowie High School student v. former Bowie High School Color Guard instructor, James Scott Johnston.
What happened: A former Bowie High student, is now claiming that he has sexual relations his former Color Guard Instructor, after he denied it 3 years prior. The student never told any teachers or administrative staff that he had sex with Johnston while attending Bowie,but wanted to bring the case back up against AISD.

How: The student claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Johnston when he was 16 and attending Bowie an AISD school. He denied having sex with his color guard instructor in 2004 but he is now claiming that AISD didn't do enough to pretect him.

Newsworthiness:

Quotes:"The evidence is overwhelming that the one person who had knowledge of what was going on failed to tell anybody,"-District Judge Sam Sparks

A. Early Alcohol Prevention
B.
i. 13
ii. 6
iii. 7
iv. The graphics are used well, whenever there would be a voice over there would be images of people drinking in the background.
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C. I liked this video because to me it was the most interesting out of all of them.