Exercise 3

1. Become a reporter. Write a story about the SARAW class. Think about why you're in the class and what you hope to get from it. Use these ideas to write the story.

   
   

2. Interview your tutor, instructor or someone in the class. Ask them questions about their background, why they're in the class, how they heard about it and what they hope to learn. Use this information to write a story.

Photographs

Pictures are an important part of the newspaper. They give us a better understanding of the people and events happening in the news. Photographs can help us understand what a story is about too. Even if a person can't read, they can usually use the picture to discover meaning. In that way, photographs can be even more powerful than words. The following exercise uses photographs found in the newspaper.

Exercise 1

1. Find a picture in the newspaper that interests you. Talk with your tutor about what is happening in the picture and why you find it so interesting. Make a list of reasons why you chose this picture using the WRITE program. Finally, write a caption for the picture and compare it to the original caption.

   
   

2. Choose a picture from the newspaper that has people in it. Think about what you think they might be saying. Write a conversation for your picture.

   
   

3. Find a picture that has a community or political leader in it. Read the story that goes along with it. Write down four questions that you have from your reading.

   
   

4. Choose a picture of a person that you might want to meet. Write down the reasons why you want to meet this person.