tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17917904420141549702024-02-08T16:04:37.757-04:00SCCS Media Writing 2011The place to go to know what you should be doingDavid Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-49924131369295476682011-12-04T15:23:00.000-04:002011-12-04T15:23:39.157-04:00Presentation of Final Project<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">While the quality of the materials you have prepared for Thursday are important, the organization of the presentation itself will be almost equally crucial. You should give a role to each member of your team, and make sure they practice. If you can, hold a formal “rehearsal.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Probably the easiest and most effective way to do the presentation is to have all of the material in written form that you can hand to the judges at the beginning of the presentation, and then have each member of the team explain part of it in his or her own words. The judges will be told that they should ask you questions, so be ready for that. If a team member is not comfortable with this, they can have something that they can read.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">They should know it well enough that they can look up and make eye contact with the judges. And they should show enthusiasm and salesmanship. Remember – the idea is that you want the judges to hire you. You are NOT just “giving a report.” You want to <i>make a sale.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It seems to me that it makes the most sense for the leader to go first and read or explain the “strategy statement” spelling out what you think is causing the problem, and how you propose to correct it through public relations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then you “unveil” your slogan, explaining how it implements the strategy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Next would come the presentation of the advertisement(s). Here you explain how you intend to get your “message” across to the “recipients.” Tell who or what is the “source” of the message, and detail the ways in which you intend to present this advertisement. That is, what “channels” will you use (newspapers, radio, television, billboards, etc.)? If you need help getting color copies of your proposed ad, send it to me, and I will make it (them) for you. In fact, I will give you whatever help you need in making copies, provided that you don’t give it all to me at the last minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Following that, discuss the press release. What is its purpose and how does it accomplish it? (The purpose, to review, is to tell journalists what they need to know about your campaign to prepare articles and reports about it. Make sure that the written version you give the judges gives the date of the release, the source (with contact information), and an indication of when the information can be released. In this case it should say, unless you have some special reason for delaying the release, “FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The last “required” item is the letter to community groups. What groups are you aiming at, and what do you want them to do? Note that even if you have prepared a letter aimed at only one group, you can tell the judges about other groups you will aim at in a similar, narrowly focused manner. (Think about the discussion we had on Friday. If you’ve forgotten it, ask me and I´ll tell you the suggestions I made again. That goes for any of the things we’ve gone through.) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Finally, you can present any additional items you have added above and beyond those required. </span>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-78073005452403313382011-11-29T22:35:00.000-04:002011-11-29T22:35:11.713-04:00Writing a Press Release The most important thing I want to tell you about writing a press release is that you apply the same principles that we have used in writing other things.<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> As we did in writing advertising copy, we consider who is the "recipient," and what is the "message" we want that recipient to receive. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> In the case of a press release we are sending this to editors at newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, and often other people who are known in the trade as "CIs," or centers of influence. In Latin America (in my experience) press releases are usually sent out to announce and explain an event, usually a press conference, but sometimes a speech, or something else like that. It will be short. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> Unlike in the United States, an organization will rarely depend on a "press release" by itself to get the word out. Television stations will want pictures of something or somebody; radio stations will want "sound bites" they can record and put on the air. Often someone from the organization that is trying to get the story out will have to go to the stations and appear on programs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> So to some extent, the press release you write for this class will basically be a test of how well you can explain your campaign because I do expect you to explain it clearly and concisely, providing all the facts that you want the various media outlet to include.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> It can, of course, also announce a press conference, or perhaps a speech by the mayor to an assembled group of business leaders, or some other such arranged event. (For example, the mayor could take reporters and Miss Santa Cruz on a tour of dirty spots in the city. But your press release will be graded on how good a job it does providing journalists with information they need to write stories and present reports -- much more than would be the normal case in a Latin American press release. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> The press release is something you should be thinking about through the whole process, and you should probably designate the person who is going to write it early. But it is probably among the last things you will actually complete. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> Your recipients, then, are the journalists who will assign and write the story. Your message is the information you hope they will put in it explaining the problem, and offering solutions. Give them the facts they need. And -- at the risk of being obvious -- give them the facts you hope they are going to use, and put them in the perspective in which you want them to view those facts. The press release (and press conference) is where you try to take charge of setting the agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> In terms of writing, you keep in mind the "Rules for Writing Anything," which are to get the reader's attention, tell him what the story is about, and why it is significant (i.e., why he should write a big story about it).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> Quite often the standard news lead -- what we have been calling the "5Ws and an H" lead will work very well for this purpose. Tell the media who is going to do what, where, when, why, and often how, <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> But you can consider other ways of starting off. The bulk of the story should be arranged in a logical chain, with the more important information coming first. (Usually it is not possible to make it a chronology, but telling the history of how they campaign evolved is often interesting to include.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> It is NOT necessary to try to be cute and original. Journalists believe that that's their job. Your job is to give them the facts. They'll supply the clever touches. The tone should be practical, down-to-earth. You should be concise. Don't waste the journalist's time with extraneous information. If you have some extra added details, put them at the bottom (the end). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"> Often, as is the case in the material you read for today, the press release is accompanied by a "fact sheet" that an editor or reporter can use as a ready reference tool. Sometimes, a "Question and Answer" sheet is added, for the same purpose. In any event, you should have prepared for your own use the answers you will give to the questions you think reporters will or might ask.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">There are three things that a press release must have. And it will cost you points if you do not include them. They are:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">* The date the press release was sent out (and sometimes the time, if that's relevant)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">* The source of the press release and the name of a contact (or contacts) there, with phone number(s) and e-mail address(es). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">* An indication of when the information be released. Nowadays this is almost always immediately, and the release will state at the top (as in the case from the textbook) "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE." Only in very rare cases, usually involving information that will affect stock prices, will information be "embargoed" for release at a specified time and date.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-49367032673596314602011-11-21T20:37:00.001-04:002011-12-01T13:49:45.987-04:00Final Project: Clean Up Santa Cruz Campaign<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Situation: Santa Cruz Mayor Percy Fernandez decides that as his last amyor act in office he is going to try to clean up Santa Cruz – fix the gardens in the median strips of the big streers, fix the sidewalks, control the billboards in public places, and, most of all, <i>get the garbage off the streets.</i> In connection with this last goal he intends to hire a communications company to conduct a multi-pronged “public relations campaign” to make citizens more aware of the fact that Santa Cruz is one of the world’s dirtiest cities and, hopefully, do something about it.The city government is willing to enact almost anything in the way of new laws – including punishments and fines – to assist the campaiugn. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To get the multi-million-dollar contract, public relations companies must submit a proposal for a campaign that will include <i>at least</i> the following: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> * .</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">A slogan<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A description of the strategy the company plans to use<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An press advertising campaign (consisting of one or more ads)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">A press release<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> * </span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A letter to community organizations asking for their help and offering support<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(It may include much more, such as scripts for radio and televisión public service announcements, a proposed newspaper story (to place in smaller newspapers, a billboard campaign – whatever your company thinks is needed to get the job done.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ALL OF THIS WILL BE PRESENTED during class on Thursday, December 8 during our last class to a team of judges, who will pick a winner.The winners (assuming there are no major complaints about their proposal will get a “A” on this exercise, which is the equivalent of a final exam. The losers will get a lower grade, depending on how close they came to winning. (In addition, the Project leaders will be asked t orate the participation of team membersa, which could affect the grade.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE STRATEGY. Naturally, your company’s “campaign” will be determined on the basis of why you think the city is so dirty, and what strategies and tactics are most likely to get people to change their ways. In other words, what do you think the problema is? We are going to discuss this today, and I hope the discussion will help me with the extremely difficult task of dividing the class into two companies, or “teams.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the real world you would go out and do a lot of research, and you would “test” the effectiveness of differrent approaches. You will not have the time or the opportunity to do this, I don’t think, in a formal way, though you certainly can “try out” different slogans and messages on other students, your parents, friends of your parents, and so on.But keep in mind thatb this kind of a “simple” for your market research is weakened by the fact that these are probably not the people who are throwing trash in the street. To do really effective research you would have to find them and talk to them. Still, you may get some interesting ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are, no doubt, lots of different reasons why Cruceños are such slobs, but I am just going to suggest two, for the purpose of getting a discussion started. You will immediately see, I think, how if you decide one is correct (or mostly correct) that will influence everything you do in your campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">SYMPATHETIC APPROACH – In this view the main problema causing trash to accumulate all over the place is that a great number of Cruceños have just moved here from little towns where, basically, everyone was a slob and nobody much cared. This explains, among other things, why you see men taking a leak more or less anyplace they feel like it. That’s they way they did it in the campo; that’s they way they do it hjere. When you gotto go, well, you gotta go. In this analysis, what’s needed are gentle, educatioinal reminders that in a big city we need to do things another way, ori t will be, well, a mess. Bag your trash . . . (or better still, put it in a can) . . . put it out when and where it will be picked up . . . don’t throw trash out of your car (it adds up) . . . . neighborhood “clean-up days” can help your neighborhood look nice. . . . fixing the sidewalks is something the city government can do to help you . . . use trash cans (which the city will make more available, as in Sucre) don’t ne a “litterbug” . . . .”a cleaner Santa Cruz is up to you.” </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">. . . . </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Be a good neighbor.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE ENFORCEMENT APPROACH – Cruceños for many reasons including their “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” approach to life, and frequent condition of intoxication, are incurable slobs and the only thing that is going to shape them up is a recriminatory campaign that emphasizes punishments for slobbiness – fines, arrests, confiscations of licenses, and a very stern, authoritarian attitude. (Most dictatorships have very clean streets.) If a policeman sees you throw a piece of inorganic trash out of a car window there should be a 200 Bs fine collected on the spot. A truck that dumps garbage in an unauthorized place (like the road beside my barrio) would lose its license plates. Special police would go through garbage to find out where it comes from, and make appropriate arrests. The ads would emphasize the penalties, and that trashing the city is bad behavior that must be changed – or else.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Probably these two approaches (and others you may think of) can be blended together somewhat, but you probably have to decide what your basic philosophy is. Let’s talk about it, and see if perhaps the class divides naturally into different “camps.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
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</u></b></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-28453525022275148552011-11-17T11:35:00.000-04:002011-11-17T11:35:10.318-04:00Writing a Great Lead for a Great Story<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the article I gave you earlier about sports writing I said that from time to time sports writers sometimes use allusions from the classics, from the Bible, and from literature to open a story and capture the drama and emotion of an event that, while not really all that important, still inspires the deepest feelings of the human heart and soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The example I gave you was the famous quote from sportswriter Grantland Rice about a football game in which Notre Dame had, somewhat unexpectedly, defeated the US Military Academy (Army) in a football claim played in New York City. The story of the game, basically, was that four principal Notre Dame ball carriers couldn’t be stopped. Rice went to the Bible to find a metaphor to illustrate this. (Note: Notre Dame is located in South Bend, Indiana.):<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That “lead” is frequently cited as one of the great example of how, sometimes, media writing comes close to being literature. Some people, to be sure, must think Rice overdid it. But note that Rice did cover who did what, when, where, why, and how. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Whatever the case, I want you to write an opening paragraph for a story summing up the recently concluded Friendship Games in La Paz that will both tell (more or less) what happened, and capture the grandeur, the scale, and the immensity of the event for SCCS, using some grand metaphor or simile or “rhetorical device.” <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Let me give you an example of what I mean. If you had studied Latin (which I know you have not) you would have encountered Roman Emperor Julius Caesar’s famous phrase describing his conquests in what is today France (then known as Gaul). “Veni, vidi, vici,” he wrote. That translates as, “I came, I saw, I conquered.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is a pretty good description of what the Jaguars did in La Paz. If you cannot think of anything else, you may use this as your “rhetorical vehicle” (your method of getting into the story).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You might keep in mind that it is possible to go too far with an exercise like this. There is a famous story of a reporter who was sent to cover a disastrous flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in 1889, and in an effort to capture the immensity of the tragedy in which thousands of people drowned, started his story, “God sat on a hillside overlooking Johnstown today and looked at the destruction He had wrought.” The reporter’s editor, clearly unimpressed, telegraphed back, “Forget flood. Interview God.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your assignment on the opposite side of this sheet (or any other piece of paper you have handy) is to write an opening paragraph for a story about The Jaguars triumphant sojourn in La Paz at the Friendship Games. I will put the best one on the weblog. Take your time. You are writing about a Great Historic Moment. It’s OK to take a few tries, but your deadline is 8:30. This will count as a quiz grade. So do the best you can. <o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-12719672593400298292011-10-27T13:13:00.000-04:002011-10-27T13:13:58.400-04:00Promoting Santa Cruz and Bolivia Tourism<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">The next assignment will be for you, working in two-person teams, to create two different ads about Bolivia. You can work on them simultaneously. Both will require some research on your part. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Economic Development Ad<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The first will aim at encouraging economic development in Santa Cruz. Basically it will urge business owners to either start their business here, move it here, or expand it here. Your “copy” will need to make the case that Santa Cruz is a dynamic new commercial center that is a great place to do business in. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> You need to think about what makes an area attractive to a business. What do they need? Well, workers to start with. Santa Cruz has them, It is (and I have to check this out) supposedly the second fastest-growing city in South America. They also want well educated workers. You could point out that in addition to UAGRM, Santa Cruz has 18 private universities, up from none 25 years ago. And it also has a network of fine high schools (including this one).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Businesses need good transportation links: Santa Cruz is astride (more or less) the new “Bioceano” highway, the first direct transcontinental highway. It has good roads to Argentina and to most other parts of Bolivia (with the exception of Sucre). We have a very efficient little airport that functions as a ¨hub¨ for South America, and also has intercontinental flights to North America and Europe. We have a railroad to Brazil. We have a river – but perhaps the less said about that the better. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Economic development requires a pro-business political environment, and I think we have that, at least in the region. It needs electric power, industrial parks, adequate water supplies, first-rate hotels. Good housing . . . . we do well on all those counts. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">An important source of information is likely to be your parents or their friends, many of whom have businesses here. Ask them why they’re here. What are the advantages? (We’ll skip the disadvantages.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One added challenge is to include in every ad in big type this slogan:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 31.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Santa Cruz, Bolivia </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Demi Cond","sans-serif"; font-size: 31.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OUR FUTURE IS NOW</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Freestyle Script"; font-size: 31.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It needs to be this size, and use these type faces, which are Freestyle Script for “Santa Cruz, Bolivia,” and Franklin Gothic Demi C for “OUR FUTURE IS NOW.” The copy should be in Times New Roman 12 pt. There should be a separate headline dealing with the particular aspect of Santa Cruz that you are “selling.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The reason for this uniformity is that we are constructing a “campaign,” We want people to be able to recognize these ads, and, hopefully, be attracted to them because they find them interesting and persuasive, with lots of new, interesting information. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You need to identify the source of the ad and give people a way to get further information. Let’s all say that these ads are from the “Santa Cruz Economic Development Agency,” and tell people to go to <a href="http://www.santacruznow.com/">www.santacruznow.com</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AD</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For this, you need to pick out an attraction in Bolivia, and make an ad that will make people want to come and see it. Make things easy on yourself by picking one you know well and like. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are any number of choices, and I will just name a few of the more obvious ones – the salt flats of Uyuni, the Jesuit Missions, Sucre, Cochabamba, and (maybe) La Paz. Bolivia is also a Mecca for bird lovers, and you can learn a lot about that by going to the birdbolivia.com website, which also has some great images. Another attraction along this same line are the large number of Hunting Lodges. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I do not think Santa Cruz is now, or ever will be, a tourist attraction in and of itself, but if you think it could be and have a way to “sell” the idea, by all means go for it. Santa Cruz does have at least one world-class attraction, which is Guembes Butterfly Center, and it does have Aqualand, but I think it’s hard to get people to fly in from the US or Europe just for those attractions. The same can probably be said for the narco traffickers’ plane on the first ring. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The three big national parks – Amboro, Noel Kempff, and Madidi --.might be a good attraction, but would need, I think, a clever angle. There is one nice lodge in Madidi called the Chalalan Lodge that offers a real jungle ecology experience. ( Alas, it doesn’t have a website of its own, but if you Google it you can get travel agencies that book stays there, and have information and some pictures on their websites.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But, hey, this is your country. Certainly you must know some place here you would like to show off to a foreigner.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have not decided yet whether to have a distinctive typographic logo that will identify this as a campaign. Or, to be more accurate, I haven’t thought of one. Can you?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe we can figure one out together<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In any event you will want to do some reasonably thorough research on the location you have chosen so that you can write some engaging, fact-filled copy about it. Images are easy to come by through Google and other sources. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The same rules are in effect as on the previous advertising assignment for both of these assignments. Have a strong image that will stop the recipient, an engaging headline to get him or her to read your “message,”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 31.0pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and a compelling message to “make the sale. The message should start with a short sentence that gets the reader’s attention, explain what your “pitch” is, and say why that’s important or interesting. Then the remainder should unfold in logical fashion. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Identify the source of the ad as the “Bolivian National Tourist Board.” And give people a place they can go for further information, probably a fictitious website like wwww.boliviatourist.com <o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-44852870017486883852011-10-16T16:00:00.000-04:002011-10-16T16:00:54.733-04:00How to Create an Effective Ad<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> What makes a good advertisement?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> For cynics, a good advertisement is one that the client approves.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>However, Leo Burnett, a famous advertising man, said, “The best identification of a great advertisement is not only that its public is strongly sold by it, but that both the public and the advertising world remember it as an <i>admirable </i>piece of work.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> David Ogilvy, another famous adman (there is an Ogilvy and Mather agency in Santa Cruz), put it a little bit differently: “A good advertisement is one that sells the product without drawing attention to itself. It should rivet the reader’s attention on the product. Instead of saying, `What a clever advertisement,' the reader says, 'I never knew <i>that</i> before. I´ll have to try that product.' ”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> But the main thing, in all cases, is that the ad must sell the product, which is not always as easy as it sounds. Advertising people are fond of saying enigmatic things like, in the case of an ad selling steaks in a restaurant, “You don’t sell the steak. You sell the <i>sizzle.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ANALYZING THE SITUATION<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> While we are going to keep things very simple, it will help to know some of the language advertising people use in analyzing a situation for which they are going to create an ad. They consider fours aspects in deciding what approach to take:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The recipient</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – Who is the person (or persons) we want to get this message to?.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The channel</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – What is the best way to get the message to the recipient – TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, Internet, billboards?. (This will not be a big issue for us because we will be basically creating magazine ads since they’re the easiest to conceptualize. Of course, if someone wants to try to make a TV or radio ad, they are welcome to try.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The message</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – What, exactly, is it we want to tell the recipient? (How do we communicate the “sizzle” to the recipient?)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The source</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> --. Who or what is communicating the message. The source might be a person like a celebrity, or just an ordinary citizen. It could be an organization, like a school. Usually it’s the company that makes the product. But in a pet food ad, it might be a dog or cat. We want it to be someone who can influence the recipient.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> After we come to an opinion on these points we then begin to construct an ad, and as a general rule we are going to start with doing a rough draft of the message we want to get across. In our first case, a restaurant, <span> </span>it will be something very basic like “Come to my restaurant. The food is good and the price is right.” But we will also want to tell the recipient why we are a better choice than all the other restaurants making basically the same claim.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Let’s stop here and do Step One: Designing Our Restaurant.<span> </span>Use this sheet I´m giving you. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">CREATING THE MESSAGE</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Next comes Step Two: What message do we want to channel to recipients about this restaurant. Who do we want to attract to this restaurant? Why do we think they will come?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The basic principles are the same ones we have been using in all our writing. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><span> </span>At the start we have to get the reader’s attention. Many of the techniques we have used before still apply. We can set a scene for the reader/recipient. Or tell him or her some amazing fact. Promise that going to this restaurant will be in his or her best interest, that it will make him or her a better human being. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> Supposedly there are several words that never lose their power, no matter how often they are used. They include “amazing,” “new,” “free,” and <span> </span>”improved.” If you have a chance to use one of them, do so.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Then the rest of the “body copy” should be arranged in a logical order. The message can be put into mouth, so to speak, of a celebrity, the company, an ordinary citizen, or anyone else. Some advertisements include, or consist entirely, of “testimonials,” which are statements from clients, patrons or consumers of the product or service being advertised. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (To review the basic principles of writing, re-read “How To Write Anything,” which is still on this weblog (<a href="mailto:boldt41@gmail.com">boldt41@gmail.com</a>)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">. <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Keep it short. No more than 200 words, probably. Maybe less. But they have to be good<span> </span>words: Think about them very carefully. Don’t waste any. Don’t put in any that aren’t needed. In the past there have been famously successful advertisements that have had 700. 900, and even 1400 words, but the feeling seems to be that people won’t read that much any more. You should write, and then re-write several times, making it better each time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Keep it simple. <span> </span>Don’t try to be literary or fancy. Write in the way that people speak to one another in everyday conversation. (If you’re looking for a way to get started on the restaurant project, imagine you are at a party and someone has just asked you, “What is your restaurant like? Would I like it?”) <span> </span>You should, once again, “dictate” your text --“copy” in advertising lingo – to yourself as you write it. And read it back to yourself to “test” it for clarity, coherence <span> </span>and smoothness. A famous book on writing, Rudolph Flesch’s “Art of Plain Talk,” urges writers to use short words, short sentences, short paragraphs, and highly <i>personal </i>copy. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Give lots of facts. “The more you tell, the more you sell,” says one of the old axioms of advertising. This is how you get the reader to say, “I didn’t know that. I´ll have to try this.” Don’t be afraid to use facts that also apply to competitors. One airline (KLM) built a reputation as a safe airline by telling in its ads about all the safety checks it performed, even though all airlines did the same checks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Also give the recipient information and advice he or she can use. If you’re advertising a restaurant, make sure people know how to get there, and how to call to make a reservation. <span> </span>If you’re selling laundry detergent, give people hints on how to get certain kinds of difficult stains (using your product).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> OK, enough advice. Write it out and send it to me. We’ll consider this a “first draft.” So it doesn’t have to be perfect.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE HEADLINE<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Step Three is to come up with a slogan <i>(lema)</i>, or headline to go on top of the message.<span> </span><span> </span>This is the most important element in many if not most advertisements. (Some people think the image is what attracts the recipient initially, but the headline is <span> </span>what makes the recipient decide whether to read the rest of the copy. On average only 20 percent of readers who read the headline read the “body copy.” A good headline can boost that percentage several times over.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> David Ogilvy always wrote at least 16 different headlines before picking the best one. You should write at least several before picking one. They do not have to be short. Twelve words is not too long. One of the most famous ad headlines had 18 words: “At 60 miles per hour the loudest sound in the new Rolls Royce comes from the electric clock.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Using specific, concrete nouns, and active verbs can be especially important in the headline. Words that tend to attract attention<span> </span>include: “HOW TO,” “ANNOUNCING,” “INTRODUCING,” Don’t be afraid to use emotional words:”DARLING,” “LOVE,” “FEAR,” ”FRIEND.” A restaurant, for example, could be a place “WHERE FRIENDS GET TOGETHER.” <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE IMAGE <o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Step Four is the image. Some people would say that this should come first, and maybe it should, but this is a writing class, not an art class, so we are picking the image to go with the headline and message, rather than the other way around. Ultimately they must all work together synergistically so that the whole is greater than the parts. (Remember that word for the SAT.) You should prepare yourself for the possibility that the image you choose may cause you to change the text. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> In the real world we could think up and image, and then go out and create it <span> </span>In class we are going to stick to images available on the Internet, with the best source probably being Google Images. <span> </span>You want to look for a picture – and photographs are almost always more potent than drawings – that attracts the recipient; that fits with the message (and headline); and that “sells the sizzle.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This is the fun part. Put everything together on a single page. You can play with the size of the image, the headline, and the body type. You can try different fonts (styles of type). Do make sure the type size is big enough to be read easily. Generally speaking it is supposed to be easier to read “serif” type like this type face (Times New Roman), </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">than it is to read “sans serif type like this, which is Arial.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> However, designers seem to prefer sans serif type. Don’t use a hard-to-read “script” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Blackadder ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">like this, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">unless you have a really good reason. The elements in the ad should form a design that feels balanced, like a Mondrian painting, if you are acquainted with that artist. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Be sure to add in all the needed <span> </span>information like address, phone number, days and hours the restaurant is open, etc. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><span> Go do it. Send it to me as an attachment when you are done. </span><span> </span><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-64840517496527697342011-10-03T23:40:00.002-04:002011-10-03T23:40:51.506-04:00Opinion Writing Assignment<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ASSIGNMENT:</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The requirements for the “opinion piece” are very simple. Write an essay of at least 500 words (it can be longer) giving your opinion about something and send me your first draft by midnight Wednesday as a Word document attached to a message. I will return it with corrections and suggestions as usual, and the final draft will be due at midnight Sunday. While I have been as flexible as I can on the deadlines, my advice is not to<span> </span>leave it to the last minute. If you do the assignment<span> </span>in a timely fashion you should find this to be<span> </span>interesting and engaging..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rules for Writing Opinion Pieces<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Unfortunately, there are no rules, though I will give you the best pieces of advice I can in a minute. There are probably as many different ways of writing an editorial, a column or a review as there are people doing it. Nearly all of the people who write opinion articles for newspapers, magazines, Internet publications, television, radio, and so on are people who have been reporting in these field for many years, and have long since developed their own methods of approaching and writing about a topic.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Nonetheless you are probably going to be called on to do more opinion writing in the next two or three years than you will be in the next twenty. You will be asked to present an argument in essays on the SAT, on AP English tests, and you can bet your house that it will be one of your assignments you get in English 1, which will undoubtedly be a mandatory course in whatever university you attend. Moreover, many of the questions asked on college-level essay exams require what is basically an “opinion piece” as the answer. So you may as well get started on them now.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The emphasis on expressing opinion in tests and college English courses is the result of the discovery in the United States a few years ago that the majority of high school students were incapable of presenting and supporting even a simple argument in writing. This assignment will give you a chance to show that this particular criticism does not apply to you – or, if it does, we can get started on correcting it. Up to now, however, I have felt that my major problem was getting many of you to leave your opinion out of the news and sports stories we have been doing. I don’t think that most of you will have any problem putting your personal opinions and attitudes back in. <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Happily, the advice for writing an opinion piece is much the same as writing anything else. (You may want to refresh your memory of the basics of writing by re-reading “How To Write Anything,” which was one of the first articles posted on boldt41.blogspot.com, and is still there.) Your first task is to get the reader’s attention by saying something interesting and engaging. This is a little more important in opinion writing because most readers will feel that they don’t really have to read your opinion. (After all, they already have their own opinion – why do they need yours?) So it’s especially important to “hook them” in some clever way. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Sometimes the best way to do this is the simplest: Start with a succinct statement of your opinion. (This is especially true when you are writing with a time deadline, such as the SAT essay, where you should usually start by responding to the prompt.)<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then you have to tell the readers what your opinion is, and why your opinion should be important to them. (Usually you are arguing, basically, that your opinion is better informed, or in some other way superior to, the one they already have.)This is the equivalent of telling the reader what your article is about, and why it is significant.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That completes the first part, or “top” of your article.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The rest consists of presenting your argument in logical fashion, together with the principal evidence supporting it. Add a snappy conclusion -- and you’re done. Easy as that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe not quite that easy. I have glossed over one very important part of the process: Coming up with an idea. If you are a columnist writing a daily column, or even three a week, this can be <i>the</i> major problem. I am assuming that all of you already have at least one subject that you have strong opinions about (or could easily develop them). I am leaving the choice of the kind of opinion piece you could write as broad as possible. Here are some of the possibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">A column </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">– This is a personal essay giving your opinion on some situation that is facing the school, the city, the nation, or the world. If you want to see some examples of columns, pick up an El Deber and to the section in the back entitled “Los Collaboradores.” But almost any publication you read will have some opinion columns in it. Some publications have opinion pieces that are written without by-lines and are intended to represent the position of the publication itself, as a corporate citizen. <span> </span>These are called “editorials.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can pick virtually any topic – your opinion of how the government has handled the Tipnis situation, the war in Afghanistan, the decision to close schools in Santa Cruz because of the flu, the difficulty of finding a parking place in downtown Santa Cruz, the problem of how to reduce smoke in the air in and around Santa Cruz, the school uniform policy. Anything you have thought about and have an opinion on. (It will be easier and more interesting if you write about something you really care about.)<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>I have written several columns recently about life in Santa Cruz that might also give you ideas. They were for the “e-zine” of a website for people living here who are from another country. Here are the URLs:</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span><a href="http://www.boliviabella.com/happy-trails-the-joys-of-driving-in-santa-cruz.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.boliviabella.com/happy-trails-the-joys-of-driving-in-santa-cruz.html</span></a></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.boliviabella.com/warming-winters-chill-in-santa-cruz.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.boliviabella.com/warming-winters-chill-in-santa-cruz.html</span></a></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.boliviabella.com/the-cocacola-crisis-in-bolivia.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">http://www.boliviabella.com/the-cocacola-crisis-in-bolivia.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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<!--[endif]--></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>A review</b> – This is an essay in which a “critic” gives his or her opinion about . . . well, almost anything. <span> </span>There are reviews of movies, books, buildings, paintings, television shows, and the list goes on. If I were doing this assignment (and I might because it sounds like so much fun) I would go to a movie and then write a review or opinion piece saying what I thought of it. If you want to know what movie review is like go to the Internet Movie Data Base (imdb.com) and look up the page for any movie, such as, perhaps, the one you just saw. Go to the bottom of the page to the “Learn More . . . .” section, and click on “external reviews” under “Opinion,” and – voila! – there are links to perhaps 50 different reviews. You will quickly see that there are as many ways to review a movie as there are reviewers. Don’t feel like leaving your house?<u> </u><span> </span>Write a review of one of the new TV series coming on now. Or, if worse comes to absolute worst, read a book and review that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><u>WARNING – While you may do as much research as you wish on the Internet, do not under any circumstances download and present as your own work a review (or anything else) written by somebody else. This is plagiarism and the penalty for doing so is very severe</u>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-81358616633715943442011-09-28T22:00:00.001-04:002011-09-29T08:12:13.309-04:00Suggested Story Ideas<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The following are suggested ideas for stories we would “cover” for the school website, all (or most) requested by webmaster Alex Adachi. You can sign up for any one of them to do either by yourself, or as part of a two-person “team.” Nor are the possibilities limited to this list. You can come up with your own ideas. The only limit is that the subject should be one that is of interest to the school community (students, teachers, parents).</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">MAP Testing -- This year the school switched from the Iowa Tests of Achievememnt to MAP Testing, which is done on computers and is underway now. The story would explain the reasons for the switch, and what parents, students, and teachers can expect from the new program. Ms. Silke Schöler is the person in charge.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Prize Winning Elementary and Middle School Art -- The Elementary and Middle School art programs have compiled an impressive list of prizes in national and international contests over the past three years. Ms Lavintman is the contact person and I have a list of the hours when she is avalable.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Game Attendance -- STUCO has various activities for this school year. One of them is to try to boost attendance at sports events. This would make a good piece. The officers of STUCO would be our best sources. Possibly also Dean Davis. School Play -- Elementary has a play due</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Iin October. Mrs. Rykowsky is the teacher to contact. Her e-mail is <a href="mailto:paterykow@hotmail.com">paterykow@hotmail.com</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Extra-Curricular Clubs like Gamers Club, the Recycling Club, Movie Club, etc. could each be a story on what takes place after school. The movie club would be particularly interesting in view of their recent field trip to meet with the director of a new movie about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Two '11s on school staff - Two members of last year's senior class, who have delayed their entrance into college, have been hired by the administration to work at the school. Mateus de Carvalho is helping Analia Mostert wih her programs to help kids with reading problems (I think). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Rainer Netzlaff is working in the information technology department. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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</span></div></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-41973114993756714672011-09-28T17:07:00.000-04:002011-09-28T17:07:52.062-04:00Plan for Medieval Day Story<i style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">(Here, admittedly a little bit late, is the suggested plan I gave to Lucia for constructing the Medieval Day story fom your memos. As I said in class, this represents an example of the "anedotal lead" style of opening, which is different from the simple "5Ws and and H" news lead that we have been talking about. Here we use a short "anecdote," or short story of something that happened, to try to get the reader's attention, and then tell the reader who did what, where, when, why and how. It also shows how you try to build into the plan an effort to explain the importance or significance of the story. And finally, it demonstrates how you want to have a logical framework for the rest of the maertial. It's also an example of how to use chronological order as an organizing device. (In the last part we tell what happened during the event in the order it happened. It´s an example of the principles enunciated in "How To Write Anything," an essay of mine that you read at the beginning of the year.)</span></i><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Opening anecdote<span> </span>-- two paragraph description of one episode that sort of summed up the day. One that might be good is the jousting match between Maid Natalia of Medina and Maid Moira of Rodriguez.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The “theme” paragraph that gives the “5Ws and an H”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Explanation, if we have it, of the larger purposes of the event<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Summation of the results and reactions <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Results of the competition<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quotes from students<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Quotes from teachers<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(Don’t just “list” the quotes. Try to use each one to tell something new, or make some new point.) <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Explanation of where the idea came from (brief)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Summary of the events of the day<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Opening ceremonies .. coats of arms, mascots, dances, etc<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Medieval Fair activities and competitions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span>·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Afternoon events on the soccer field<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(In doing the summaries of the activities it isn’t necessary to tell everything about everything. Some events can just be mentioned in passing. You can tell about the parts that seemed particularly interesting.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-90430250151477629282011-09-26T21:47:00.000-04:002011-09-26T21:47:33.644-04:00Portfolio Review: Have your webblog ready for inspection Oct. 3 As explained earlier, I will review your personal weblogs starting next Monday, Oct. 3, and you will receive a grade on them equal to a test grade. The grade will be roughly 40% on quality, 40% on the quantity of your work, and about 20% on the quality of your presentation on the weblog. Everything you have written for this course up to this Friday, Sept. 30, other than tests and classroom exercises, and including your Medieval Day memo, should be on your weblog. You should even include any unfinished projects, with a notation as to what state they are in. (Are you still writing them, has this been submitted as a first draft, etc.)<br />
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The presentation does not have to be fancy or include any "extras." But it should look neat and orderly. Each project should have a headline. (I haven't looked at them for a long time, but the last time I did look some of them were kind of a mess -- very disorderly.) If you need to retrieve your work from the SCCSOmelette or the SCISL weblog the URLs are sccsomelette.blogspot.com and scisl.blogspot.com. You will get some time in class on Thursday to work on them if you wish, but you may prefer to finish your current project so that you can include it.. David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-17543158794973764472011-09-20T16:40:00.000-04:002011-09-20T16:40:08.322-04:00Coverage of Medieval Day<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><span> </span>To cover the “Medieval Day” we will be using a “team reporting” concept much like we used at The Washington Post to cover events like the big marches on Washington to protest the Vietnam War, and the method used at The Wall Street Journal to write what were called “trend stories.” ("Trends" means, more or less, <i>tendencias.)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>All of you will go out and observe the events of the day, and then write up a report of what you observed running roughly 500 words. Most of you will also be assigned some specific aspect of the event to cover. All of the reports will then be collected and Lucia will write a story based on them (plus, of course, her own observations). Send the memos to me at boldt27@gmail.com.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>You will get a mark based on the quality of your report, or memo, but your real goal will be the same as that of the reporters on these teams at the Post and Journal – to get the material you reported into the final article that appears in the paper. Reporters, of course, didn’t get grades on their memos. This was the way they got their reward. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>How do you get your stuff into the main article? Well, of course, the most important thing was to have a good eye for telling details, a good feeling for the best little stories (anecdotes), and a good ear for the great quotes that told the story best.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>But also important was the way you presented the material. You wanted to put the different pieces you assembled into ready-made “chunks” that the main writer could lift directly out of your memo and put into the main story. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>These memos do not have to be written in a way that they could stand on their own. They do not have to be connected by a narrative thread. In fact each little piece could be separated by a blank line or a centered “bullet” like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The memo does NOT have to have a “5Ws and an H” lead, or any other kind of lead. You can just plunge right in to telling what you saw and heard. You do want to have the best things at the top where they will be easy to find. By the same token you don’t have to explain the whole event in your memo.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Think of it this way: You are just providing the bricks. Someone else will make them into a wall. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Therefore you should be able to write these up fairly quickly and I hope that you can get them at least partially done and sent in on the day of the event, before you forget the nice little touches that can “brighten” the story. Those of you who cannot do that need to be especially careful to take good notes that you can read. If you get your memos done before next Tuesday (our next class) you will get free time during that class period, as is our custom.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>There will be two versions of our story. One, for the website, will be relatively short, 1200-1500 words. Then there will also be a long version (of indeterminate length) that will be shown to the committee that comes to accredit the school next year and to other official visitors to the school.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Here are your individual reporting assignments:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Manuel Saavedra</b> – Interview Hudson Thurston, probably after you get out of chemistry. He is one of the two main people putting this event together (along with Alvaro Ludueña). The main thing we want to know from him is how this event came about, and what its goals are. Who thought it up? Is it supposed to teach history or be a way to build cohesion and school spirit? (Probably both.) But let him tell you the story in his own way. Be ready to follow up on anything interesting he says. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Andrea Gutierrez</b> – Interview Alvaro Ludueña, who is the other principal person running this show. Same instructions as for .Manuel (above). <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Sebastian Vedia</b> – Pay special attention to describing the event – the buildings, the costumes, whatever.<span> </span>Make sure that from your memo we can give a good picture of what the event looked like. <span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Ximena Fagan</b> – Take pictures and talk to kids. When you take their pictures that gives you a perfect opening to start a conversation with them (when you ask for their names and class). Asked them what they liked about the event, and if they learned anything. Is it fun? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Nicolas Aguirre</b> and <b>Nicolas Handal</b> – Pay particular attention to the various contests they will have. It’s not that important to get who won and lost. In fact I´m not sure we’ll even use that. It’s more important to describe what happens: There will be funny things, sad things, interesting things said.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span><b>Lucia Landivar</b> – Try to get a sense of the whole event. Be thinking of what you will need to explain and describe this event. Observe and talk to people to get an overall impression.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Everyone should be watching and listening and talking with students, teachers, and any parents who show up. (They have been invited.) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>As I understand it, you will be available as follows: (I will be there all day. Please check in and out with me as you come and go)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>E Block and break (8-9:40) -- Everybody<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>F Block (9:45-11:15) – Manuel Saavedra, Nicolas Aguirre (after chemistry quiz)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span> </span>Lucia Landivar, Andrea Gutierrez, Ximena Fagan (after pre-<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;"><span> </span><span> </span>calc test) <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>G Block (11:15-12:40) – Manuel, Nicolas Aguirre (after first 30 minutes)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Lucia, Andrea, Ximena (after chemistry quiz)<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Flex Block (12:40-13:10) – Medieval Day participants are at lunch<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>Lunch (13:10-13:45) Everyone (after eating lunch)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span> </span>H Block (13:50-1510) – Lucia, Andrea, and Ximena (right?)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The schedule of Medieval Day (which was passed out Monday) is as follows: <span> </span><span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">MIDDLE AGE KINGDOMS</span></u></b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Student`s Day Schedule September 21, 2011</span></u></b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;">The MS Middle Ages program, is a group of activities and games, in which the students represent “Kingdoms”. The program includes dancing, medieval games, knights jousting, sand castles, a costume contest, and “The Holy Grail hunt”; all presented in a Medieval theme atmosphere. Through these activities, the students not only have the chance to express themselves and explore creativity, but also </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">step back into history and get information about life for people who lived in the medieval times.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:00 FLEX<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">8:10 Kingdoms set up<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9:20 Recess<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">9:45 Kingdoms Presentation: Coat of Arms, Dancing, Customs, and Mascot<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">10:30 Middle Ages Fair Games<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Catapults: Taylor Barton </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Crowns: Nancy Moya </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 36.0pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Crossbows: Seth Gibson</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Darts: Patrick St. Amand</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Horseshoes: Alejandro Adachi</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Towers: Rebecca Battistoni</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">· </span><span lang="EN-US">Joust Relay: Alvaro Luduena</span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; 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The JV volleyball games can be over very quickly, sometimes in less than an hour, and the varsity games are almost always underway by 4:30. The soccer games take longer, and the varsity game usually doesn't start before 5.) </i></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b>Match 3 – SCCS vs. Christian Learning </b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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JV stories are usually short and simple, 200 words or so -- the outcome, a general description of the action, the score at half time. That's about all. Varsity game stories are longer -- 300-400 words, and sometimes more if the game was interesting. Include more description of the action. Later in the season the stories become larger as the games become more important (and you become better writers).<br />
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We like to have the game story right after the game is played, but the deadline is noon the next day. If we have class the following day you may write the story in class. If you have already done the story you may have the class time as a study hall (to do the work you would have done if you weren't covering the game). Make sure that the score of the game is reported right after the game. Send the score and story to David Boldt at boldt27@gmail.com. If you are not assigned a game there will be another assignment for you in that class.<br />
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You have many sources of information. The scorekeepers have been told to let you have the line-up cards submitted by the coaches after they have put the names on the scoresheet, and you can look at the scoresheet at the end of the game. When we have team rosters you will have a copy. If you don't understand the game well sit next to people who know it well, and ask them if you have questions. (Don't be shy.) Often there will be players in the stands from the other game being played that day. I will be on campus during the games, watching one or the other, and available to help. A good place to sit is often right behind the players' benches. After the game you can interview the players and coaches. Quotes from them can add life and interest to a story. <br />
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<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif;">1. Call David Boldt at 343 8425 or 70822475.. If worse comes to worst I can do it. (I used to cover all eight games.) But if I don't know you're not there I can't give your game the extra attention it would need.</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">2. If you have more time, try to trade assignments with another classmate. Phone numbers are in the class roster. </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;">3. Set up an alternate way of covering the game through a player(s), coach, or Mr. Luduena. I used to write stories from just the information on the scoresheet.</span></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="color: #444444; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-icons" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="item-action"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=6002562986721764750&pageID=4880372035839526281" style="color: #206315; text-decoration: none;" title="Email Page"><img alt="" class="icon-action" height="13px" src="http://img1.blogblog.com/img/icon18_email.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-top-style: none! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;" width="18px" /> </a></span><span class="item-control blog-admin pid-202154716" style="display: inline;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/page-edit.g?blogID=6002562986721764750&pageID=4880372035839526281&from=pencil" style="color: #206315; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit Page"><img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18px" src="http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" style="border-bottom-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-top-style: none! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.5em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;" width="18px" /></a></span></span></div><div><span class="post-icons" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><br />
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<b>Andrea Gutierrez and Ximena Fagan</b> -- Story on SCCS students going to GIN conference in Lima, Peru, to discuss and debate a variety of global issueswith other students from all over Latin America. Story will include background on the GIN program and SCCS involvement in it. Ready to write Thursday, Sept. 15, complete before Spring Break.<br />
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Sebastian Vedia and Manuel Saavedra -- Story abiout new administration building. Do reporting on Tuesday and Thursday, Sept. 13 and 15. Story discussion in class on Sept. 15. Set deadline then.<br />
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<b>Manuel Saavedra</b> -- New House system. To be done after completing article on new executive offices. Deadline to be set later.<br />
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<b>Nicolas Handal and Nicolas Aguirre</b> -- Spirit Week (to go with pictures. Write and deliver Tuesday, Sept. 13. 300 words or less. Pick new assignments.<br />
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<b>Fernando Monasterio</b> -- Wallpaper based on SCISL blog. (scisl.blogspot.com). Set deadline Tuesday, Sept. 13.David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-71110711298726762832011-09-07T20:00:00.001-04:002011-09-07T21:29:15.566-04:00Media Writing Project Plan<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: ES;">Name: ________________________________Date:____________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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font-size: 12.0pt;">Estimated length (number of words): __________ ______________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Estimated date for completion of draft: _______________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-48445831462078097232011-09-05T20:52:00.000-04:002011-09-05T20:52:11.127-04:00Style Notes<i>All publications have a "style book" that covers its policies in regard to punctuation, syntax, usage, and similar matters in cases where several different methods are acceptable. This is the start of our list of such rules for articles written as assignments for this course, particularly articles for the SCISL News weblog. </i><br />
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1. Avoid the use of initials for school names because they are too similar (SCCS, SCIS, SCCLC, SCISL, etc.) On first mention the name of the school should be given as Cooperative, International, Christian Learning, or Cambridge. In sports stories you may use the school mascots as a substitute for the school name (the Jaguars, the Griffins, the Eagles, and the Knights). When referring to the Santa Cruz Interscholastic Sports League (SCISL), generally just say "the League" (note capital).<br />
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2. In sports stories and most news stories use the past tense to describe actian that has occurred. There is a way of using the present tense in such stories, but we don't use it.<br />
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3. Indent for paragraphs. Don't skip a line. (This is a change from past practice when the weblog did not allow a paragraph indent.)<br />
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4.Give a person's full name on first mention, and last name on second mention. We don't use "honorifics" like Mr., Sr. Mrs. Ms., Miss, Srta., Sra. Lic., etc., with the exception of Dr. for medical doctors.<br />
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5. To the maximum extent possible use Times New Roman 12 pt.type. (On the weblog this is "normal" size.)<br />
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6. Headlines use the same type font, but are boldfaced and printed in "largest" size on the weblog.<br />
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7. By-lines can appear either cenered at the top of an article or flush right in italics at the end, but should be consistent in any given project.David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-27934690991350810182011-09-03T18:16:00.000-04:002011-09-04T10:43:08.711-04:00How to Write a Sports StoryA sports story is, basically, just another kind of news story, and the simplest way to write it is to use the traditional "5Ws and an H" news lead. The opening paragraph should tell WHO did WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and, sometimes, HOW. (Actually, the WHY part is often obvious and may not have to be stated explicitly.)<br />
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Thus a story about a 2-1 socccer victory by the International School boys team over Cambridge might go as follows:<br />
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"The International boys varsity soccer team started its season on a winning note, defeating Cambridge 2-1 Thursday afternoon on the Griffins home field by scoring twice in the second half while a tenacious defense kept the Knights out of scoring range most of the game."<br />
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That has it all -- who, what, where, when, why and how.<br />
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The next paragraph might pick up some of the highlights -- who scored the goals, how the game fit into the long rivalry between the schools, how the outcome affected the League standings. Stuff that somebody just skimming the story might like to know. For instance. if Cambridge missed two penalty shots in the last minute of the game, or something like that, you might want to mention that up here in the "top" part of the story.<br />
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We have used a soccer game as an example. A volleyball game would be done the same way, except that sometimes it's necessary to have a second sentence if the set scores are complicated. But the point is to get all the key facts in at the beginning, even if you are trying some artful different kind of opening (see below).<br />
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The rest of the article simply tells the story of the game. The wonderful thing about sports writing is that a game naturally has a beginning, a middle, and an end. You don't have to construct some sort of logical chain to link things together (as is the case in some other kinds of writing).<br />
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Now this doesn't mean we tell everything that happened. We give a general picture of the action, skipping over the dull parts and zeroing in on a couple of key moments that were crucial to the outcome. (Sometimes it's just one key moment, with the rest of the game just sketched in lightly.)<br />
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And that's all there is to it. You're done. These stories can be written (and are written on some newspapers) by a computer. You feed in the facts. It spits out the story. (This is usually done for high school games on big papers that have to cover dozens of such games.)<br />
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However, there are other ways to start the story that might make it a little more interesting or exciting. The only limit is your skill as a writer. Say that the Cooperative Jaguars were leading the International Griffins 3-1 with only five minutes left to play in a game. Say that the Jaguars scored three goals in those five minutes and won the game 4-3. (This really happened, by the way.)<br />
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Why not start the story like this:<br />
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"The Cooperative boys varsity soccer team came back from the dead Thursday afternoon."<br />
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That would get people's attention, which is the real first rule of writing. And it would fulfill all the requirements of newswriting so long as we got the score, where and when the game was played, and at least some hint of how the Jaguars managed this amazing comeback into the next paragraph. (In news writing, almost every sentence is a paragraph.)<br />
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The opening of the story can get even more complex and literary than that. Consider the most famous sports lead ever written. It was by a sports writer named Grantland Rice, and (eventually) it told how Notre Dame University won a football game against the US Military Academy. It went like this:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, Pestilence, and Famine. But those are aliases. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Crowley, Miller and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But remember, he was a professional. You may not want to try that at home. At least not right away. </span></span>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-8805780805465761132011-08-28T13:43:00.000-04:002011-08-28T13:43:29.349-04:00Practice Story on Boys Soccer Game<br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Boys Soccer Game Facts<o:p></o:p></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">Winner:<span> </span>Cooperative<span> </span>Jaguars</div><div class="MsoNormal">Loser. Christian Learning Eagles</div><div class="MsoNormal">Score: 5-3</div><div class="MsoNormal">Where played: Cooperative</div><div class="MsoNormal">When played: Thursday afternoon<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">What was at stake:<span> </span>Cooperative’s undefeated season, Christian Learning’s chance to end<span> </span>winless season<span> </span>with a victory. It’s the last game of the regular season. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Game conditions: Small crowd with more Christian Learning than Cooperative supporters. Weather clear and sunny with gusty wind blowing across the field</div><div class="MsoNormal">Background. Jaguars are undefeated and are trying<span> </span>for their first ever perfect season. Eagles haven’t won a game all year, but have come close and are improving. Beating Cooperative would make their season a success. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Your notes on the game: </div><div class="MsoNormal">First half:<span> </span>Jaguars score first on breakaway by Jose Manuel Vasquez . . .<span> </span>Eagles tie the game on long free kick by Andre Larsen into upper right corner of goal from 30 meters out . . . Jaguars take the lead again when Jean Bretel heads in a corner kick . . . Eagles tie game at 2-2 when Richard Enns takes control of a ball bouncing around in front of Jaguar goal and threads it by Jaguar goalie. First half ends 2-2.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Second half:<span> </span>Jaguars get the lead again when Santiago Paz brings the ball upfield, beats a defender, and gets ball past Eagle goalie . . . .game now seems to be going Jaguars way as they<span> </span>fire many shots at the Eagle goal. Vasquez hits crossbar<span> </span>. . .<span> </span>But Eagles strike back as Richard Ling breaks away at midfield and fires in a shot from just outside the penalty box . . . Eagles come within<span> </span>inches of taking the lead with five minutes to go. Larsen takes ball up left side of field, gets the ball past two Jaguar defenders, gets off a crossing pass to Trevor Reed. Reed in midair<span> </span>gets his head on the ball,<span> </span>but it goes just over the crossbar. . . . Eagles seem to lose hope, Jaguars seem to have new energy. Jaguars score twice in closing minutes – one by Juan Alfredo Abuawad and one by Juan Carlos Laguna. Final score: Jaguars 5, Eagles 3.<span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>THE SOLUTION: The key thing in this "scenario" is to understand the drama involved: Winless Christian Learning came close to upsetting Cooperative, but the Jaguars met the test and finally won decisively. There are several ways to write this. I would have done it the following way in an effort to give equal emphasis to both of the key facts: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The undefeated Cooperative boys varsity soccer team avoided a serious attempt Thursday afternoon to upset them and spoil their championship hopes by previous winless Christian Learning. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"After the dust settled at the Jaguars field in the semi-final game, the Jaguars had a 5-3 victory, and stood only one game away from an undefeated championship season. They had been given a severe test -- and they had passed it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Eagles were left to nurse their remorse and contemplate what might have been. A victory would have made up for all their painful losses this year since there is nothing the Eagles fans enjoy more than a victory over the Jaguars. An Eagle win would also have marked the second year in a row that Cooperative's championship hopes had been foiled by a team with a vastly inferior record (Cambridge had done it to the Jaguars in last year's championship game.)</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game had started off with the Jaguars loking as though they would easily continue their winning ways, as Cooperative star Jose Manuel Vasquez scored the first goal of the afternoon on a breakway.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However Eagle Andre Lasen got a chance to even things up with a long free kick that he threaded into the upper right-hand corner of the goal. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Jaguars took the lead back when Jean Andre Bretel headed in a corner kick, but the Eagles retaliated a few moments later when Richard Enns took charge of a ball that was pinballing back and forth in front of the Jaguar goal, and slammed the ball in to tie the score at 2-2, where it stood at halftime.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the second half opened, Cooperative seemed to take charge of the game. First Sanitago Paz brought the ball upfield, beat an Eagle defender, and whacked the ball into the goal putting the Jaguars ahead 3-2. After that the Jaguars seemed to turn the Eagle goal into a shooting gallery, firing shot after shot that goalie Wesdley Ordoñex just managed to save, or that went wide. Vasquez at lone point slammed a point blank shot into the crossbar.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then the tide reversed yet again. The Jaguar defenders, apparently feeling overconfident, had moved way upfield. As a result when Eagle Richard Ling took charge of a bounding ball at midfield, and headed at full speed toward the Jaguar goal, there was no one between the ball and the back of the net but the Jaguar goalie, and Ling made sure the goalie had no chance when he let loose a hard shot to the left-hand side of the goal from right outside the penalty box. Score tied 3-3. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buoyed by this sudden turn of events in their favor, the Eagles seemed to open open some fresh cans of Whip-Ass, and suddenly were playing the Jaguars once again on an even basis. And then came the crucial moment for the Eagles. With just five minutes to go Eagle forward Andre Larsen took the ball up the left side of the field and beat two attempts to get the ball away from him.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Finally he stood alone in the corner of the field, with the two Jaguar defenders lying helpless on the ground, and with Larsen's teammate Trevor Reed zooming down the center of the field toward the goal with no defender covering him. The realization spread through the large contingent of Eagle fans: They might be about to take the lead.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately for the hopes of the Eagle fans Larsen's pass came in slightly behind Reed, who had to twist himself in midair to get his head on the ball. The ball then bounced up just over the goal, rather than into it. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The near-miss seemed to deflate the Eagles and energize the Jaguars. In the closing moments Jaguar defender Juan Alfredo Abuawad took the ball from his end to the Eagle end to score. Moments later Jaguar Juan Carlos Laguna threaded his way through a seemingly exhausted Eagle defense to add an "insurance" goal, and make the final count Jaguars 5, Eagles 3. </span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-73631427240563901742011-08-22T22:00:00.004-04:002011-09-04T21:09:51.474-04:00Girls Volleyball Game Facts<div class="MsoNormal">l Winner : SCCS Jaguars</div><div class="MsoNormal">Loser: International Griffins</div><div class="MsoNormal">Scores of sets: SCCS won first set 25-23, SCCS won second set 25-19 (There was no third set)</div><div class="MsoNormal">What was at stake: League Championship </div><div class="MsoNormal">Where played: in the SCIS gym</div><div class="MsoNormal">When: Friday afternoon</div><div class="MsoNormal">Game Conditions: Big crowd of International fans. Only a handful of SCCS supporters. Both teams were at full strength with no significant injuries. Weather was not a factor.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Background: The two teams have always been closely matched. International won last year, also in “straight sets.” In the two “regualr season games,” SCCS had won the first, and International had won the second . </div><div class="MsoNormal">Your notes on the play:</div><div class="MsoNormal">First set – SCCS took early lead 8-4. International tied game at 15-15. Teams stayed even to 23-23 when SCCS made two quick points, one on a spike by Aldana Roda, and the other on an International error when attempted set-up went into the net and couldn’t be retrieved. Both teams played very well. On some points the ball passed back and forth as many as 20 times. Many great “digs” and retrievals of balls headed out-of-bounds. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Second set – International took charge early, going ahead 10-6. SCCS came back slowly ,not getting even until the score was 18-18. At that point International seemed to lose concentration and make unforced errs while SCCS played without making mistakes, though both teams made great play. Aldana Roda spiked one ball down the line with her back to the net. Griffin Stefania Gioto blocked three attempted spikes by the Jaguar front line. Both teams served hard, neither had a server that could dominate play. SCCS seemed to surge through the last seven points to win. </div><div class="MsoNormal">Other interesting points:</div><div class="MsoNormal">It was clear that both teams had a lot of respect for the other. After the final handshake they stayed on the court and applauded one another. . . . Internatioinal obviouisly felt that though beaten, they were not disgraced . . . . The SCCS players knew how close they had come to losing control of the second set and having to go to a third, tie-breaking 15-point game. . . . The SCCS players dumped the wáter container on their coach, Aleksander Mahdik. . . . International coach Eli Vilar gathered her players and congratulated them for a good effort. “You game it your all,” Vilar told them. “You didn’t leave anything out there on the court.” . . . . .SCCS captain said, “I thought they had us in the second set but we showed that we could take the pressure and come back.” . . . . . The SCCS players did a <span lang="EN-US">“victory lap</span>” around the gym hold the chapionship trophy high. <br />
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POSSIBLE SOLUTION:<br />
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The Cooperative girls varsity volleyball team captured the League Championship with a hard-fought, but convincing, straight sets victory over International in the Griffins gym Friday afternoon. The Jaguars took the opening set 25-23, then came from behind to win the second set 25-18.<br />
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In an outstanding example of good sportsmanship and mutual respect, the two teams stayed on the court and applauded one another after the final handshake, and before the Jaguar girls took a victory lap around the gym holding the championship trophy high.<br />
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The game was a worthy chapter in what has been a close and intense rivalry between the two teams. International had won the championship a year ago in a similarly intense chamìonship game against the Jaguars, and in the two regular season games this year each team had won the game played in its home gym.<br />
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In terms of spectator support, International had a clear advantage, as there were only a handful of Jaguar fans present. However, it was the Jaguars who jumped out to an early lead, 8-4, in the early going. And the Jaguars stayed in front until the Griffins caught up and tied the score at 15-15. From that point the teams seemed to trade points on long rallies in which the ball was sometimes volleyed back and forth across the net twenty times or more.<br />
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One great play by one side seemed to invite a great play on the other. Both teams served hard -- and both teams returned serves well. The action sparkled with outstanding defensive plays as defenders thwarted attempted spikes with last-second, one-hand digs, or retrieved balls seeming headed irretrievably out of bounds.<br />
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Then with the score tied 23-23 the Jaguars came up with the two successive points they needed -- one on a spike and the second on a Griffing setting error -- to win the first set 25-23.<br />
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In the second set it was International that seemed to have the momentum, taking a 10-6 lead, and apparently well on its way to forcing a third and deciding set. <br />
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However, the Jaguars made a slow. steady comeback. As in the first set, play seemed evenly balanced. Jaguar captain Aldana Roda scored on a spike she hit down the line with her back to the net. But then Griffin Stephanie Gioto responded with three great blocks at the net. What made the difference was that International was making a few mistakes, while the Jaguars were making almost none.<br />
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When the Jaguars tied the score at 18-18 the International players seemed to lose focus, while the Jaguar performance continued to be almost flawless. The end came with remarkable suddenness as the Jaguars won seven points in a row, mostly on long rallies, taking the set 25-18 to win the match and the championship. <br />
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</div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-68388087871052465732011-08-09T18:13:00.002-04:002011-09-06T11:11:29.937-04:00Welcome to SCCS Media Writing 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">This is the personal blog of David Boldt, the instructor in the Media Writing Course at Santa Cruz Cooperative School in the first semester of the 2011-2012 school year. This is the place to look for current assignments, and other news involving the course. All assignments in the course should be written as Microsoft Word documents and be submitted as attachments to e-mail to messages sent to boldt27@gmail.com. Watch the right hand column for new assignments.<b> This is not NOT the class blog. To see that go to sccsomelette.blogspot.com.</b></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-1334702256974230702011-08-07T18:10:00.001-04:002011-08-09T21:21:40.641-04:00Interviews: Getting "Up Close and Personal"<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Rules for Interviews</span></b><br />
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1. If possible, contact the person you are interviewing, explain who you are and what you are doing, and make an appointment. Avoid situations where the interviewee feels "ambushed."<br />
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2. Do as much research as you can before going to the interview. At least Google the person to be interviewed.<br />
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3. Write out your key questions in advance, and write them on the inside of your notebook cover where you can find and refer to them easily. Write open-ended questions; avoid questions that can be answered with a simple "yes" or "no" (unless that's what you want).<br />
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4.. Identify yourself and explain what you are doing, even if you have already. Try to put the person as ease and establish rapport. Observe the source and surroundings. Sometimes the way a person is dressed, or little details (like the fact that he has a ring in his tongue) can add interesting touches. Similarly, the things he or she has on the desk or wall may be interesting. In short, be alert. Bolivia needs more lerts.<br />
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5.. Don't waste the interviewee's time. Get what you need and get out. (However, don't be afraid of allowing a moment of silence, or pause, in the conversation. People hate pauses in a conversation and will often do anything to fill them, sometimes telling you interesting stuff you wouldn't otherwise have gotten.) In any event, give your source time to respond, and don't interrupt.<br />
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6. Sometimes -- though not always -- saying something that shows you kn ow a fair amount about the subject being discussed, will loosen up your source. People like to talk about things when they know the reporter understands what they are talking about. On the other hand, there are times when it is better to "play dumb" and pretend to be clueless. Invite the source to "explain" things for you. It depends on the situation. Interviewing is an art, not a science.<br />
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7. Make sure you understand, ultimately, what the source told you. Otherwise you won't be able to explain it to the reader.<br />
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8. Sometimes (as we get to more complicated and sophisticated topics) a source will ask you to go "off the record," usually meaning that you can use the information but not attribute it to the source. Sometimes the source means the you shouldn't use it at all, and is only telling you to help you "understand" the situation. You should try to avoid those situations, but, if you get into one because there seems to be no other choice, try to "bargain" to get as much "on the record" as you can. In any event, do not leave the interview unless you have a clear understanding of what the deal is, and keep any promise you make. In the US failing to keep a promise can open you to a "breach of contract" lawsuit, as well as a libel lawsuit.David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-65397949237610881822011-08-07T17:20:00.003-04:002011-08-07T17:43:15.309-04:00Formulas for News Writing<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">How To Write Anything</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> Every piece of non-fiction writing can be thought of as having two parts – an opening or introduction, followed by the main part of the article or paper. For convenience, we’ll call the first part the “top,” and the second part the “bottom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> The top is fairly brief – no more than 20 percent of the entire piece, and rarely more than three or four paragraphs even in a fairly long paper. Often it’s a single paragraph (or two). However, it is very important. This is where you get your reader to read the rest. In it you must accomplish three things:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2';">P<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Get the reader’s attention, usually with the opening sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2';">P<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Tell the reader what the story is about (that is, what is your “thesis”)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Wingdings 2';">P<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Explain why it’s important, or interesting, or funny, or whatever it is that makes it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">significant and timely, </i>and therefore worth reading right now. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sometimes you can accomplish two of these at once. For example you can get the reader’s attention and tell what the story is about at the same time by starting with a sharp, clear, pithy statement of your theme. But often you´ll want to start with an anecdote, a fact, or a description. And then make a graceful turn into the paragraph explaining what the article is about, followed by the explanation of its significance. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There may be other things that you need to get done at the beginning. You may want to acknowledge that there is some information that conflicts with your thesis, and either deal with it or promise to do so later. Or you may want to specify what you are going to cover. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The bottom is the part where you give the reader the information you promised in the top. Here the exhortation to “write from a suitable design” becomes all important. You want to plan – often by writing it out – the order in which you are going to cover the relevant subtopics. They should follow logically. Anytime you can make the bottom into a “narration” (i.e., a story told in chronological fashion) you’re better off. A story, remember, has to have a beginning (a situation), a middle (a complication, or problem), and an end (a resolution of the problem). It should be tightly focused, and the principal theme should run through it like a skewer through a pacamuto. This doesn’t mean you leave out important people or information. You bring them in at the point where they are needed to compare and contrast with your central thesis. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A handy device is to set up a page with two columns. In the first is your basic design for the story. In the other you write down, in shorthand, the things you want to be sure to get in. Then you draw lines from the things you want to get in to the place they fit in the design. When you combine the two columns in this fashion you end up with a comprehensive plan, or outline, for writing your story. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">When you get to the end, come up with a snappy conclusion that wraps things up if you can. This is a nice touch, but it is not always essential. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>The Five Ws and an H</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This is just a handy way of constructing the start (or "lead") of a news story when you are under deadline pressure, or when the story does not merit greater effort. In this case you get the reader's by telling him or her what they want to know in the fastest and most efficient way possible.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The "Five Ws" are who, what, when, where, why. Memorize them. They will be on a quiz or test. The "H," which is not always included, is for how. (In fact, why is also sometimes omitted from the lead paragraph if it is too complicated, or if it goes without saying.)</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">To think of it another way, the opening paragraph should tell the reader who did what, when, where, why and, sometimes, how.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">It may become clearer if we look at real example from a kind of story we will be covering (games in the Santa Cruz Interscholastic Sports League):</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Who?</b> The Cooperative School boys varsity soccer team</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>What:</b> Defeated Cambridge 11-0</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>When: </b>Thursday afternoon</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Where:</b> The Jaguars' home field</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Why?</b> To open the season with a win</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>How: </b> By outplaying the Cambridge Knight on offense and defense</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">This might all come together, with some embellishments, as follows:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">The Cooperative boys varsity soccer team opened its season in impressive fashion with a decisive 11-0 win over Cambridge in a game played on the Jaguars' field Thursday afternoon. The Jaguars scored early and late, dominating play at both ends of the field. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">You can always start a news story with a five W lead, though you may often be able to think of a better way to get the reader's attention. But even when you do you should answer the basic questions signalled by "The Five Ws and an H" by the second paragraph. </span> </div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-26570007783758614942011-08-07T17:00:00.002-04:002011-08-15T09:52:06.370-04:00New Teachers<u><b>Upper School (7 Teachers)</b></u><br />
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Student assigned -- teacher <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nicolas Handal -- Lukus Brody </span><a href="mailto:lukusbrody@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">lukusbrody@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup> grade English, AP English, Room 32</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lucia Landivar -- Kenneth Davis </span><a href="mailto:davis.ken@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">davis.ken@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Dean of Students, administration wing (Mr. Mostert's former office)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nicolas Aguirre -- Blake Panting </span><a href="mailto:kspanting1975@yaqhoo.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">kspanting1975@yaqhoo.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="mailto:blake654456@yahoo.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">blake654456@yahoo.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, music/band, Room 36</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Manuel Saavedra -- Gregory Johnson, AP US History, Room 30 (no e-mail available)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Andrea Gutierrez -- Katie Hansen, </span><a href="mailto:katiehansen87@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">katiehansen87@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, chemistry and biology, Room 22</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Ximena Fagan -- Jason Hershberger, </span><a href="mailto:hershjas@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">hershjas@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, upper school English, Room 33</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fernando Monasterio -- Julio Luis Muñoz, art teacher, art room </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Note -- Heath Kondro's replacement in technology has yet to be named.)</span><br />
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<b><u>Lower School (5 Teachers)</u></b><br />
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</u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Ximena Fagan -- Alison Clare, </span><a href="mailto:aclare91@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">aclare91@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, 1<sup>st</sup> grade, ECC 10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Fernando Monasterio -- Jeremy Kes, </span><a href="mailto:Jeremy.kes@gmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeremy.kes@gmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, 4<sup>th</sup> grade, PC6</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Nicolas Aguirre -- David Bergner, </span><a href="mailto:davidbergner@hotmail.com"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">davidbergner@hotmail.com</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:drbergne@garlandisd.net">drbergne@garlandisd.net</a>, 5th grade, PC 4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Sebastian Vedia -- Silvia Davis, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="mailto:silvia.davis@gmail.com">silvia.davis@gmail.com</a>, 1st Grade, ECC9 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Andrea Gutierrez -- Christina Szyman, christina.szyman@gmail.com, PC3 </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span> David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-82716576922810967272011-08-07T16:00:00.015-04:002011-08-15T09:59:17.581-04:00Sports Preview AssignmentsBoys Varsity Soccer -- Sebastian Vedia<br />
Girls Varsity Soccer -- Nicolas Handal<br />
Boys Varsity Volleyball -- Lucia Landivar<br />
Girls Varsity Volleyball -- Manuel Saavedra<br />
David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-3260811749428192042011-08-06T10:38:00.003-04:002011-08-08T10:48:24.789-04:00SCCS Sports Practice Schedule<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; width: 622px;"><tbody>
<tr> <td colspan="9" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 466.2pt;" valign="top" width="622"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">SCCS 1<sup>ST</sup> SEMESTER SPORTS SCHEDULE 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="height: 9.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;"> <td colspan="9" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 9.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 466.2pt;" valign="top" width="622"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">VARSITY<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Sport<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Coach<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Venue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 69.85pt;" valign="top" width="93"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Practice<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Matches<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <h4><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Soccer<o:p></o:p></span></h4><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Boys<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">J.C Farel<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Field<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:00 – 5:20<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 69.85pt;" valign="top" width="93"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">5:00 – 6:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Boys<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">J.L. Suarez<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Coliseum<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span> </span>5:30– 7:00<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 69.85pt;" valign="top" width="93"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">3:30 – 4:40<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <h4><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Soccer<o:p></o:p></span></h4><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Girls<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">R. Cabrera<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Field<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:30-6:00<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 69.85pt;" valign="top" width="93"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Friday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">3:30 – 5:00<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Girls<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">R. Cabrera<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Coliseum<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">3:30 – 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 69.85pt;" valign="top" width="93"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:40-6:00<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Thursday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 93.85pt;" valign="top" width="125"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Cheerleaders<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 62.15pt;" valign="top" width="83"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span> </span>A. Mostert<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Elem.Court<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Or Pod<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 88.05pt;" valign="top" width="117"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:15 – 5:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 151.3pt;" valign="top" width="202"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Home Games <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Tuesdays & Thursdays<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr> <td colspan="2" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 101.75pt;" valign="top" width="136"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Cheerleaders<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 79.45pt;" valign="top" width="106"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span> </span>A. Mostert<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 80.25pt;" valign="top" width="107"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Elem.Court<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Or Pod<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 123.3pt;" valign="top" width="164"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Monday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">4:15 – 5:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 81.45pt;" valign="top" width="109"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Home Games <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Tuesdays & Thursdays<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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<tr> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 221.4pt;" valign="top" width="295"> <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Boys Soccer <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Monday 8 August at 4:00 – 5:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wednesday 10 August at 5:00-6:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Thursday 11 August at 4:30-6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Girls Soccer <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Monday 8 August at 4:30 – 6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tuesday 9 August at<span> </span>4:30 – 6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Friday 12 August at 3:30 – 5:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 221.4pt;" valign="top" width="295"> <h4><u><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Boys Volleyball <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></h4><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Monday 8 August at 5:30 – 6:30pm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Tuesday 9 August at 4:30-6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Wednesday 10 August at 3:30-4:40 pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><h4><u><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Girls Volleyball <o:p></o:p></span></span></u></h4><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Monday 8 August at 3:30 – 4:30 pm <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Wednesday 10 August at 4:40-6:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Thursday11August at 4:30-6-00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div></div>David Boldthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04959337666287183045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1791790442014154970.post-71721617995571772372011-08-06T09:57:00.001-04:002011-08-08T10:58:38.462-04:002011 SCISL Soccer and Volleyball Schedule<br />
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<tr> <td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Date</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Matches</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Venue</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Times</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">30 August<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 1</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCCS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CC<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCIS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CLC<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 2</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCCS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CLC<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 3</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCCS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CLC<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">15 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Break</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"></td> <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">27 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 4</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CLC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">29 September<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 October<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 5</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCIS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CLC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CC<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> 6 October<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11 October<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Girls Soccer & Boys Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 3.0cm;" valign="top" width="113"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Match 6</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">CLC</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SCIS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> vs. CC<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 49.6pt;" valign="top" width="66"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">SCIS<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> <td rowspan="2" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 70.85pt;" valign="top" width="94"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">JV @ 3:30<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Varsity @ 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes; page-break-inside: avoid;"> <td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 168.45pt;" valign="top" width="225"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13 October<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Boys Soccer & Girls Volleyball<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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