The
Forest Knolls Jr. Press Corps is a group of dedicated young
journalists in first grade through high school. The older students
have been reporters since their elementary years at Forest Knolls.
The Jr. Press Corps was established in 1995 to give students the
opportunity to examine and investigate a variety of experiences that
would improve their critical thinking, writing, and communication
skills.
All
students are invited to apply to the Jr. Press Corps. Once they join,
there are a variety of journalism projects that rely on writing
process strategies for many purposes. The following Writing/Language
Usage Outcomes as stated in the Maryland School Performance Program
are supported through this rigorous and exciting journalism
program.
Tim, Grade 6 Jr. Press Artist
Writing/Language Usage
Outcomes
The students will
demonstrate ability to write for various audiences and to address
a variety of purposes - to inform, persuade, and express personal
ideas.
The students will
demonstrate ability to use appropriate style and conventions for a
variety of audiences and purposes.
The students will develop
as writers through frequent writing experiences and many
opportunities to interact with each piece of writing, having had
occasions to prewrite, draft, revise, and proofread.
The students will
demonstrate ability to write effectively to persuade by selecting
and organizing relevant information, establishing an argumentative
purpose, and by designing an appropriate strategy for an
identified audience. In this way, students will establish and
support a meaningful position.
The students will
demonstrate ability to write effectively by considering
correctness, completeness, appropriateness, and by making
conscious language choices that create style and tone and affect
reader response. In this way, students will focus on sentence
form, word choice, grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization,
and spelling.
The students will
demonstrate positive attitudes toward writing.
