We will begin working on our ethics / journalism unit. By week's end we will
have made significant progress toward completing a "tabloid style" journal.
We will explore how photo alterations and the lack of fact-checking can
reduce the reliability of articles. We will examine ways to test what we
read for validity. We will also improve our Photoshop editing skills by
producing the tabloid product.

DIRECTIONS:

You have been hired to write for the Weird News tabloid. You are responsible
for writing 2 articles and creating the Photoshop graphics to illustrate
EACH article. All work will be done in black and white.

Here are some headlines that may help get your creative juices flowing for
your writing portion. *You may choose to write your own headline, but it
must be tasteful and school appropriate. Fellow classmates and Oak Grove
staff are not to be included.*

- "Dog Lands Plane After Pilot Has Heart Attack"
- "Man Wins $25,000 Bet By Swallowing Watermelon Whole"
- "Earth Is a Giant Egg"
- "Ravioli Worker Rolls In Dough"
- "Walking Catfish Eats Farmer"
- "Veggie-Eating Mother Has Green Baby"
- "Air Force Pilot Reports Seeing Flying Pigs"
- "Dog Eats Eight Wristwatches"
- "Talking Dolphin Predicts Future"
- "Burglar-Alarm Factory Robbed"
- "Man Collects 119 Pounds of Lint"
- "Metal-Eating Bugs Chew Through Car in Just Five Days"
- "Porcupine Falls Head Over Heels in Love -- With a Broom"
- "Elvis Opens Frozen Yogurt Stand on Jupiter"
- "Dog Missing Since 1940 Returns, Bites Master"
- "Your Remote Control Could Launch Nuclear Weapons"
- "Baby Grows Sideburns During Visit to Graceland"
- "Her Son Is a Werewolf"
- "Bodybuilder Explodes"
- "Aliens Wrote the Constitution"
- "Roaches Take Over New York City Bus"
- "Plumber Goes Down the Toilet"
- "Missing Baby Found Inside Watermelon -- He's Alive!"
- "Talking Parrot Fingers Hit Man"
- "Ads on Tombstones Cut Burial Costs in Half"
- "Bigmouth Swami Swallows Himself"
- "Champion Bullfighter Killed By Bulldozer"
- "Researchers Discover Language That Only Women Understand"
- "Dead Hubby Buried With Winning Lotto Ticket in Pocket"
- "Man Weds 20 Women in One Year"
- "Mom Trades Twins for Lottery Ticket"
- "Girl Gets Pig's Arm -- Becomes Bowling Champ"