Can you believe it? The Sunridge Middle School Publication's class is coming to the East Oregonian or the EO today for a field trip! What is the publication's class you ask? It is the extra-curricular class that students love to be in at Sunridge. These honored students are 8th graders in Mrs. Webster’s class. Mrs. Webster is the amazing teacher that made this all happen today. They are coming to learn about working on articles and editing.
On October 29, 2014, the students have just arrived with awe and marvel some in shock on their faces. We will show them around give them a tour then answer some of their amazing questions. Daniel is the tour guide that will be showing these students around today. When Daniel arrived at the front door the class fell silent. He explained that we would go on the tour and that they would be answering any questions that the students had. Daniel showed the class all the awards that the EO had won. Then he showed us the editorial part and where the sports section was published. Daniel took the class into a room with newspapers and long tables and the appropriate number of chairs. Two men walked into the room and Daniel introduced them. “This is EJ our photographers and this is Tim our reporter and the advice columnist”, Daniel said. EJ and Tim waved to the class as Tim tipped his mug to take a drink.
Daniel explained formatting then asked for any questions: but no one raised their hand. Then a hand shot up in the air to ask a question, “ How do you get the perfect idea for a story or article?” The staff responded with loads of helpful tips. That then started into a question chain reaction--hands going up everywhere. EJ the photographer talked about the ⅓ rule. The subject needs to be on the first third of the photo and then background items on the rest. After almost everyone had asked at least one question, Daniel took the kids on the rest of the tour. After the kids have arrived to the door a slightly older man with bright blue eyes gave them the last part of the tour. They visited the place where they put color on the pictures and the title pages. There are four basic colors they use: blue(Cyan) red (Magenta) yellow, and black. The EO prints 30,000 copies in one day for multiple papers, with a total of 7,000 just for the EO. The tour finished with the place where they put the ads into the paper. All of the kids said thank you and the bus left to go back to advisory.
All the kids had a great time at the EO today. They all took away from the trip more detailed revision tips and photography ideas.
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