Encouraging human rights journalism in schools | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional. The Amnesty Young Human Rights Reporter competition challenges students aged seven to 18 to put the world to rights and produce a powerful piece of human rights journalism. This year there is a new photojournalism category for those who prefer to tell their story with images. The 2012 competition attracted more than 3,000 entries. What impact did entering have on the schools? How much work was it to enter? Marisa McNulty teaches modern studies and sociology at St Andrew's Academy, Paisley.
I'd encourage all teachers to get involved in this competition. Getting involved in the competition, finding out more about human rights and maybe forming a school Amnesty group makes a real positive difference to your school. Sajeela Shah teaches religious studies at Benton Park school in Leeds. When I announced the competition in class last year everyone let out a collective sigh, the general view was that no one from Leeds could ever do well in a national competition like this. Exercises for Fiction Writers - Page 2. Questionnaires for Writing Character Profiles.
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Fifty-eight stories, each exactly 150 words long. The odds were entirely against me. I began to produce these ultra-short stories – sawn-off tales, as I call them – when I was commuting from Manchester to Liverpool: a 50-minute journey, often elongated by windscreen-wiper failure, fights on the train, or getting stuck behind the "stopper". It worked. A week after sending the manuscript to Salt Publishing I got a call from Jen, their editor. 1. 2. 3. 4. Creating mood through colour | The word on the street…. This was the second lesson I taught to a group of year ten students at a local school. As I mentioned in my last post, these students have chosen to attend an after school creative writing club and I am a guest teacher, so they are a delight to work with and don’t offer many of the challenges that I am more used to in my day to day teaching!
This is a lesson that I have used on a number of occasions in various forms, and every time I teach it I am struck by its versatility. My aim was to encourage the students to think about how they could create mood and atmosphere in their writing through use of descriptive language. I used a started activity to get them in the mood for writing and to encourage them to think reflectively about their language choices (something I know their regular teachers will have been drumming into them already). I asked them to complete a slow writing task of six sentences about a place that they like to spend time.