Articles

Hi,

Homework will start up again next week, but in the meantime, I thought you might like to know what we will be studying between now and Christmas. We will be looking at articles - what they are, what they aren't, where we find them and how we write them. We will be studying the following features specifically:

* Headlines/titles

* Subheadings

* Paragraphs

* Quotations

* Interesting content

You can find them in the following example, which we looked at in class:

Bradley Wiggins out of running for Sports Personality of the Year contest due to lack of personality

Dull

Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins was today forced to withdraw from the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year competition because he does not actually have a personality, it emerged yesterday.

Sporting hero

Wiggins, 32, yesterday admitted that he did indeed ‘lack any kind of personality whatsoever’, and that ‘there was nothing interesting’ about him, aside from the fact that he was a Tour de France winner and Olympic gold medalist.

Murray

When asked who he thought would win the award, he said ‘Andy Murray, although he’s not exactly the brightest bulb in the chandelier either.’ Wiggins is currently preparing for next year’s Tour de France, which will, interestingly, take place in Mexico. 

We will also be reading the novel Two Weeks With the Queen by Maurice Gleitzman and writing some articles about what happens to the main character, Colin. 

If you want to do some extra work on this, my advice would be to try and read at least one article everyday, either in a newspaper, a magazine, or online, and think about all the different topics that articles can be about and all the different ways writers make them interesting. 

Have fun!