Hello! (Fighting the urge to call you all cool cats and kittens 🙈)
First, check out this article and images from before and after the Easter tornado of 2020.
Easter Tornado Article
You guys are completely capable of writing about your account of the storm also, even if you didn't sustain damage. Maybe you saw the damage later, or have a story to tell after hiding in the bathroom and listening to the weather man.
I challenge you to write it! Follow these steps, write your article and share it with me! Maybe we could even get you published!
I'm going to link in the Wiki link on how to write an article, and then I'll post the images with a shorted version in this post.
First, understand the different kinds of articles.
Yours would most likely be a News or Feature article.
Your main topic is the Easter Tornado, but that is your angle? Mind map your ideas like the image above!
Research any information you need! Make sure your sources are trustworthy.
Use that information to
create an interesting angle, something that makes your article unique.
Create your solid argument or talking point! Everything will build off of this.
List out the sources you will use. Which ones are primary (face to face interview with a victim) and secondary (using an already posted article of storm damage for information).
Remember,
sources have to be reliable. See above for reliability reference.
Write to your audience! Consider all of these things about your audience. Your audience will be the population of Covington County.
Map out your outline like the image above.
This is the most important part of coherent writing. This keeps you on track and your writing clear.
Follow this check list for your article. You'll be doing a newspaper article.
You'll need check mark 1,4 and 5!
Create your eye catching headline to title the finished product! Write it, title it and turn it in to me! If you give me permission I'll try to publish the best articles sent in, (formally or informally).
If you have the time and resources I really want you to try and do this. Years from now you'll have been someone who marked your own account of history as it was made.
Love you all to the moon. I miss your sweet faces more than life.
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