Module 12 Day 2 - Wednesday, November 28 TRADITIONAL

Module 12 continues and is due on Monday.

Important Dates

• Progress Report November 29
• Module 12 Committing to Lead Due December 3
• Module 13 State and Local Leaders Due December 10
• Progress Report December 11
• Module 14 Empowering Others Due December 17
• Progress Report December 18
• Module 15 Let's Lead! Leadership in Action Due January 2
• Catch-Up Week January 1-7
• Final Exam Module Opens January 8
• END OF THE COURSE & FINAL EXAM MODULE Due January 11

Got Final Exams?  Our course ends on January 11th.  The final exam activities are designed to pull together everything you have learned about your leadership - you will showcase your content knowledge as well as how you have applied what you have learned to your leadership journey.  To prepare for your final exam activities, consider the following reflection questions that you began to answer in Module 1:

• What are your core beliefs? How do your LEADERSHIP actions back up your core beliefs? 
• About what are you passionate?  How do you apply your passions to your LEADERSHIP?
• What is your definition of LEADERSHIP?  In what ways has it changed this semester?  
• What skills do you believe effective LEADERS should have?  Do you have these skills? How do you incorporate skills into your daily LEADERSHIP journey?
• What have you learned about LEADERSHIP?
• What have you learned about YOURSELF?

Got Resources?  NCPVS provides lots of resources outside of our course to support you.  For virtual help from a peer, go to the Peer Tutoring Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. For technology issues, issue a help desk ticket with the Virtual Support Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. To learn more about the world around you, attend a Culture Cafe (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. session. Click on the visual below to explore all of the resources NCVPS provides to you:

Today's Assignment:

• Module 12 Lesson 1 Assignment

Module 12 Lesson 1 Assignment - Perseverance Newspaper Article
For yesterday's practice, you researched a famous person who persevered through adversity. For today's assignment, you will use that research, the lesson notes, and the results of 2 interviews you conduct to write a newspaper article. 

Tips for Reviewing Practice Activity:

• How does your choice exemplify someone who chose to persevere and not to give up? 
• What specific information about this person would be great to share with teens who need the motivation to push through?
• What information from the notes can you connect to this person's perseverance?

Tips for Interviews:

• You should interview one teen and one adult using the questions on the template provided.
• Take notes so you can quote each person in your final article.  How does each quote connect to the content in the lesson about perseverance?
• Think about how your 2 interviewees relate to your person from the practice activity. Are there similarities in how they persevere? If so, what are they?  You can use those similarities to frame your article arguments.

Tips for Newspaper Article

• Before writing anything, review your evidence - the notes, your practice activity, and your 2 interviews.  Which information can you put together to make a great article for teens?
• Start your article with a strong lead or a thesis.  What would opening ideas would make you continue to read an article about perseverance?
• Be sure your article focuses on your goal. Your goal is to motivate teens to persevere through whatever leadership obstacles they encounter.  
• Add details to your article from the notes, your practice activity, and your interviews.  

**Don't forget the article -- some classmates have posted interviews but not a newspaper article.

Need More Information?

Writing a newspaper article is a lot like writing an essay - you have to grab your audience quickly by stating a well-thought, detailed thesis in the opening.  In journalism, that opening is called a lead.  Take a moment to learn how to write a lead - click on the image below to read tips from the Purdue Online Writing Lab:

Works Cited:

Perseverance. (2018). Flickr. Retrieved 28 November 2018, from https://secure.flickr.com/photos/99796131@N00/56576628

Purdue OWL: Journalism and Journalistic Writing. (2018). Owl.english.purdue.edu. Retrieved 28 November 2018, from https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/735/05/.