They have final say with fonts and paragraphing. They need to be able to work closely with the photographer and reporter. This person also keeps everyone on task and is the only one that can ask the teacher questions. Together, the first job of this newspaper team is to name their newspaper. The teacher can elaborate on some of these issues and provide enough information to motivate students to research an area of interest.
Students are now ready to begin researching for their reporting.
If time doesn't allow for viewing all episodes groups of students will be encouraged and allowed to view those Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventures segments that relate to their reporting. If your local paper has a Web site, it would be great to introduce students to the site. Students may find the montage of pictures featuring Hemingway in a certain place found on the PBS Web site especially helpful. Lead students to choose an appropriate and informative frontpage article. Lead students to understand that headlines are placed in the order of importance with the largest headlines and those at the top of the page as the most important.