Who's signing up for interviews

Hello All,
Just wanted you to know that Allison has already agreed to interview Mrs. Hamerla. Let us know who you would like to interview!

Section & Story Ideas

Here are the ideas we brainstormed at Tuesday's meeting. Feel free to post more as you think of them.

Sections / Story Ideas
Feature News
Sports
Entertainment
Fashion
Advice
Local interest / events
15 Minutes of Fame
Polls / Surveys
Health
Grade Level Issues
Student Council


First Issue
Election Coverage - We still need people to cover some aspect of the election, that could include coverage of Fuller's mock election, too.
New Teacher Interviews
The Music Man

New Teachers
Ms. Malm
Ms. Reed
Ms. Trapp
Ms. Schillhammer
Ms. Hamerla
Mr. Cardarelli

Interview Questions

Ask about basic background information - hometown, college experience, previous careers
What is your first name?

Have you had any other careers?
What made you decide to work here?
Have you worked anywhere else?
Are you enjoying your first year here so far?


Why did you choose the subject you teach?
Do you spend a lot of time grading?
Do you give a lot of homework?
Are you a tough grader?
Do you give pop quizzes?

What are your hobbies?
What do you do after school?
What were your favorite subjects as a child?
What languages do you speak?
Have you ever been out of the country? Where? What for? What was the experience like?

Welcome!

Welcome to the Fuller Falcon Staff, everyone! It was great to meet all of you and hear your excellent ideas for our paper. Dr. DiGisi and I are so excited about getting the newspaper started. To make communication between us a little easier, I've set up this blog - check it frequently to get club and assignment updates, and to post ideas for stories.


Just as a reminder, you all need to come up with a story idea for the first edition, and start outlining your piece. Come prepared with something written, even if it's something very basic, to the next meeting; we won't meet again until October 7th, by the way. We don't have school next Tuesday, 9/30.

For those of you who want to work on design and layout, try sketching out some ideas for us to take a look at. What should our front page look like?

Anyone who's interested in writing the advice column, come up with some ideas for how you'll collect students' questions. Do you want to have a mailbox somewhere in school where students can leave questions? If so, where? Can it be done by email? Start brainstorming.

You also need to continue brainstorming questions for faculty interviews. I've made a separate post with the questions we typed up on Tuesday, feel free to add more.

On that note, Allyson has already made an appointment to interview Ms. Hammerla; if any of you are interested in interviewing the other new teachers, let us know.

Feel free to post your story ideas to the blog, or email them to us. Give us some idea of what you're working on so we can identify if anyone is working on the same idea. We don't want you to duplicate each other's work, and then have to start all over with something new.

I think that's all the news for now. Feel free to email, or stop by and see either one of us with questions or comments. Happy writing everyone!