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Mrs. Hutchinson had several helpful tips to the students. “They need to pick out the most interesting piece in their story and use that as the lead so that you can catch the interest of the reader.”
She believes that listening and reading good newpapers are important. “If you like a story, think about how it works, what made you like it and what did the writer do to make that story interesting,” said Mrs. Hutchinson.
“Without Daphne’s direction and her ideas it wouldn’t be a very good newspaper. It would be too factual. You need the art and the skill of writing to make it good. She’s even given us a lot of pointers that helped the children,” said Mrs. Maeyer.
“The kids have worked on this for three afternoons but they’ve been excused from different classes to go talk to teachers and report on events that have happened in school. Then they compile most of it during English class,” explained Mrs. Maeyer.
“I had to go to all the first grades and find out from teachers what they did that month. Then I had to take parts of the information and compact them into a story,” said Angela Pullen, a first grade reporter for the sixth grade class. “It’s pretty complicated writing it all out. The worst part was having to write it out, edit it and write it over and over.”
Editor Christopher Stone realizes, “It’s not as easy as it looks. I have to make sure everyone is doing his job. The worst thing is everybody’s asking me questions all at once and then the next minute nobody is around. But it’s worth it because I know some of the money will go to our Williamsburg trip next
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