6th Class - Notes by Morgan Lyons

• Current Events Quiz
• MID-TERM NEXT WEEK
• We will receive 2 fact sheets
• Choose 1 to write a story on
• Concentrate on grammar, AP Style
• What is most important? 
• Quote if it's unique or uniquely said
• When to include backstory on someone?
• Include if it increases reader's understanding of the story

• HW FOR NEXT WEEK
• Read chapter on PR on pg. 279
• Hold onto your Chicken Truck Story until next week

• T. Rees Shapiro
• Studied English at Virginia Tech
• Covered Virginia Tech shooting in 2007
• Asked for contacts by Wolf Blitzer and Katie Couric after shooting
• Applied to many newspapers
• Turned down by all of them
• Started working as a copier at Washington Post
• Worked his way up
• "You have to be fierce"
• Worked writing obituaries 
• Wrote obituary for inventor if Doritos
• He asked loved ones about the person's life, not about their death
• Why T. Rees?
• Went to the Super Bowl
• Lied to his professor about where he was going and why he was missing class
• Wrote in the school paper about it but used "T. Rees" to disguise himself.
• "You have to be fierce" stuck with me the most. He persisted and worked hard and that's how he succeeded.  I liked how he gradually earned respect and did what he was told until it was his turn to have opinions. "Take any job you get" stuck with me as well.

• We wrote the whole story to our Pictionary Leads.
• CURVEBALL: Lieberman stabbed Hoseman in their shared prison cell.
• CURVEBALL: Hoseman later died of his injuries