Hard deadline for the 8th issue is May 19th (Wed)

All work being considered for publication must be finished by Wed. 5/19. 

All work is still expected to be completed, but will NOT be considered for publication.

Deadline reminders

4th article for the 8th issue is due tomorrow in class.

1st draft of 5th article is due on Thursday.

2nd draft of 5th article is due Monday, 5/10

final draft due Wed. 5/12

Hard deadlines for all work that you'd like to be considered for the last issue is 5/21

Late work will be accepted until 5/24 - but not for consideration of publication (article only)

Eportfolio should be uploaded on-going -

Updates - URGENT

Due to issues getting the 5th issue ready, we are combining the 5th and 6th issues so that the stuff completed is not too outdated by April.

So the new 6th issue will be ready hopefully before break. The 5th issue hopefully no later than next week.

Moving forward, I will be working with section leaders, empowering them to help me grade their staff...

What this means:


- know who your section leader is and whenever you send me a draft of something, send it also to your section leader


- - - section leaders are as follows:


News - Livianette.cabrera@wjps.org


feature - Sarah.bianchi@wjps.org


entertainment - Georgia papazafiropoulos ,


sports - Lisamarie.ludford@wjps.org


opinion - Anastasia.papis@wjps.org


layout - Melissa.Iachetta@wjps.org


copy editor - Raymond.arroyo@wjps.org

Once you've finished your article and have received a rubric, please send your finished piece to Raymond as well as me. He will edit your work and send it on to Melissa.

Starting Monday, we will be working on new articles...

1st drafts will be due on Wed. 3/3/10 - to be sent to section leaders and me - section leaders will give you initial feedback

2nd drafts will be due on Friday. 3/5/10 - to be sent to section leaders and me - ms. sackstein to give feedback

final drafts will be due on Wed. 3/10/10

We will then start a second round of articles... in an effort to keep things interesting, I will let you write for whatever section you want...

You will need to have a topic choice by Thursday 3/11/10 and contact the section leader for which the article will belong.

1st drafts of articles due Monday 3/15/10 - to be sent to section leaders and me - section leaders will give initial feedback

2nd drafts will be due Wed. 3/17/10 - to section leaders and me - ms sackstein to give feedback

final drafts are due Monday - 3/22/10

At this point, everyone will be responsible for making sure there are pictures and/or sidebars for their pieces... I expect to see a lot of student voice and good coverage. Nothing should be taken from the internet...



If you don't make your deadlines, you won't be published in the paper.

Reminders on deadlines and assignments

Period 3 -
Your 2nd drafts of your section articles are due on Monday, 1/18 via google.docs
Your 2nd drafts of entertainment articles are due at that same time
Final drafts are due on Friday 1/22 for everything in the 5th issue

Period 5
Your 2nd drafts of your section articles are due on Monday, 1/18 via google.docs

Final drafts are due on Friday 1/22 for everything in the 5th issue
Advertising packet outlines are due today, 1/15 in your notebooks - please make it a point to show me your work

Layout team your deadline for the 4th issue is Thursday 1/21. We are looking to get the papers into everyone's hands by Monday 1/25

***Failure to meet above deadlines for the 5th issue will result in not getting published in the paper.  Please make sure when you invite me to your final drafts, you are ALSO inviting your section leaders whom you should be communicating with all along.