[ABCDE] VOLUME 7, IssUE 4 Sports — In Word And Image BY PRESTON KERES—THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON KERES—THE PRESTON BY Players, Fans and Media — It’s About People BY JONATHAN NEWTON—THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON NEWTON—THE JONATHAN BY INSIDE Take Sports Out the A Life the Lede Laughers Door Passes 8 11 14 Every Day 19 December 6, 2007 © 2007 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 7, IssUE 4 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program A Word About Sports — In Word and Image Lesson: The Sports section of The Every Friday KidsPost features a sports column by Fred Bowen. Washington Post provides lessons in By fifth grade many young sports fans have joined the avid meeting deadlines, mathematics and readers who turn to the Sports section before reading the Front statistics, photography and graphics, Page and comics. language arts and journalism, and geography. This guide encourages teachers to use the Sports section to study the work of Post reporters as models for students to write ledes, sports news and columns, to prepare charts and graphs using the scores and other data, and to read maps to follow Level: Low to high the schedule of teams, reporters and photographers. For your Subjects: Journalism, Mathematics, photographers we have Post photographer Jonathan Newton’s Photography pointers that are illustrated with his photos of high school and Related Activity: English Language Arts, Geography, PE professional athletes. Reprinted articles reflect the challenge faced by the Sports section to produce its diverse coverage and on-deadline reporting and photography, layout and printing. Some of the articles and columns that appear daily are done well before the 10 p.m. NIE Online Guide deadline, but others are being written as games are played on Editor — Carol Lange the West Coast or have gone into overtime. Photos, taken to Art Editor — Carol Porter reflect the emotions at the end of the confrontation as well as the Contributing to this guide: Jonathan pre-game activities, are being sent electronically with accurate Newton, a newspaper photographer for captions to layout as the presses are readied to run to meet 22 years and one of four Post sports home delivery schedules. photographers, gave us his time during a Sports writers cover victory and defeat, hopes and poor very demanding week to write guidelines decisions, injury and death. As material in this guide was being for scholastic photographers and to select prepared, news reports came of the shooting of Washington from his many excellent images ones to Redskin Sean Taylor in his Miami home, then his death. Three of share as a teaching tool. New Washington many articles about the defensive back, his family, the Redskins Post Photography Editor Michel duCille and fan response are included. gave his full support to this project. COVER PHOTO CREDITS Top: Cornerback Shawn Springs, on the Redskins’ first defensive play: “It just came about. We went out there as a way to honor Sean. It was a sad moment for us, but it was a way to honor him.” — Preston Keres Washington Post Staff Photographer Lower photos: Left: Steven Knight of Calvert High reacts to winning the Boys 100-meter hurdles in the 2003 Maryland Track and Field Championships. Center: Douglass High wide receiver Marcus Barnett tosses a tire during “Junk Yard Drills” which help the football players with their strength and agility as they prepare for the Send comments about this guide to: 2005 football season. Margaret Kaplow, Educational Services Right: The Kennedy High team is left reeling in the team room following their loss to Manager, [email protected] Northwest in the second round of play-offs. — Jonathan Newton Washington Post Staff Photographer 2 December 6, 2007 © 2007 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 7, IssUE 4 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program Sports —In Word and Image Fred Bowen’s Books & Columns Introduce the Sports Section Read the first four paragraphs. www.fredbowen.com/ Give students the Sports section Questions you may consider Fred Bowen: Sports Writer for Kids of today’s Washington Post. include: Books, school visit information and an Discuss the number of stories • If you did not read the headline archive of his The Score columns that and photographs on page 1. What or subhead, how would you know appear every Friday on the KidsPost pages. information is in the “rail” that runs what game was being played and Check out the Q and A in the bio section. down the left side of the front page which teams were playing? Note of the E section? Walk through the how this conveys the same basic www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost rest of the section. Some articles information as “Football teams KidsPost have subheads as well as headlines. from Dunbar and H.D. Woodson Read Bowen’s most recent The Score How does typography distinguish high schools played each other in columns columns from news articles? Note the Turkey Bowl on Saturday.” special features; the different local, • How does the reporter know The AllStar Sports Story Series national and international sports what Jharron Armstrong is and events that are covered; the thinking? Observation? Interview? In addition to a lively story, each book scores, schedules and standings; • In addition to describing provides a history section illustrated with articles and summaries. the action of the game, what photographs in the back. All of these Look at the bylines and interesting pieces of information stories by Fred Bowen are published by datelines. Do Post reporters and are given in the second Peachtree Publishers. photographers travel away from paragraph? [The author knows D.C. to cover sports? What percent something about both teams Baseball of the stories are written by Post and players.] Does knowing the The Golden Glove staff reporters? What percent are ability of the opposition make The Kid Coach Associated Press or news service Armstrong’s following action Playoff Dreams stories? better? T.J.’s Secret Pitch Another approach would be to • Note that the last half of the Winners Take All group students and give each group fourth paragraph (“Dunbar won a different day of the week Sports …”) is the traditional lede to a Basketball section. What features appear news article. These four sentences The Final Cut daily in this section? What features are an example of a delayed lede. Full Court Fever appear only on Monday, Friday or Off the Rim Saturday? Do certain days have Read the fifth paragraph. Note the On the Line more coverage of games played and historic perspective that is added. others more focus on games to be Read the sixth paragraph. played? Note that the information in this Review the way scores, statistics paragraph is based on observation. and schedules are presented. Might What is added by the contrast to your school newspaper or Web site last year? use a similar format? Read the remaining article. It is composed of reporting and Read a Sports Article quotations. What function does the Give students copies of “Dunbar last sentence of the article serve? Back on Top After Turkey Bowl If the cut-off test were applied this Win.” This story appeared in unity would be lost. If a writer The Post the day after the game knows the word count and works had taken place. Who would be interested in reading this article? continUED ON paGE 4 3 December 6, 2007 © 2007 THE WASHINGTON POST COMPANY VOLUME 7, IssUE 4 An Integrated Curriculum For The Washington Post Newspaper In Education Program continUED FROM paGE 3 Does this include the influence or Read About Sports impact of winning or losing or how with layout, this kind of good players felt? Is most, if not all, of Curtis, Gavin writing is not lost. the opinion found in the quoted The Bat Boy & His Violin material? Grades 1-4 (2001) Write a Sports Article Locate opinion pieces. You may Reginald loves to play the violin; his father Using the Turkey Bowl article wish to list on the board Post makes him his Negro National League and others from the Sports section Sports columnists: Andrew Beyer, team’s batboy. Coretta Scott King Illustrator as models, ask students to write Thomas Boswell, Norman Chad, Honor Book. a news article covering one of the Sally Jenkins, Tony Kornheiser, sports currently being played at Angus Phillips, Leonard Shapiro, Feinstein, John your school. The Dunbar article is George Solomon, Michael Wilbon Last Shot a good example of covering games/ and Mike Wise. Have students Grades 6-10 (2005) matches of rivals or highlighting spend several days reading the Who’s blackmailing one of MSU’s star accomplished players on both teams Sports section and collecting players? Sportswriter Feinstein blends real who are playing against each other. columns. Which column do they like players and sportscasters with his fictitious For background, students best? Why? Older students could characters. If you like this mystery, read should review rules of the game focus on the rhetorical approaches Feinstein’s Cover-up: Mystery at the Super and research information on both used by the columnists. Bowl (2007) and Vanishing Act: Mystery teams. See what stats and school at the U.S. Open (2006). records your sports department Read Bowen’s Columns can provide. If they do not keep Lawyer and juvenile novel writer Hamill, Dorothy them, this could be a class project, Fred Bowen’s columns appear every A Skating Life: My Story Go through yearbooks and/or the Friday in KidsPost. This guide Grade 9+ (2007) newspaper morgue to compile a provides two as examples of his Hamill’s candid account of her life before reference source for your school’s approaches and to stimulate student and after winning the 1976 Olympic gold media.