High School Journalism

By Homer L. Hall

Book Overview

This impressive go-to source covers all the essential elements required for journalism in high schools. Designed for easy reading and reference, it highlights important concepts and features examples from current high school publications from around the country. The Teacher's Edition simplifies instruction and provides reference material. The Student's Workbook and Teacher's Workbook provide comprehensive additional exercises for further study. Homer L. Hall taught journalism at Kirkwood High School, Kirkwood, Missouri, for more than thirty years. Mr. Hall has received numerous accolades for his excellence in journalism and in teaching, including being named National Journalism Teacher of the Year. Logan H. Aimone taught journalism for ten years at Wenatchee High School in Wenatchee, Washington, where he also advised the staffs of The Apple Leaf newspaper and Wa Wa yearbook. Mr. Aimone is executive director of the National Scholastic Press Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization dedicated to improving scholastic journalism through contests, conventions, and critiques. High School Journalism and the corresponding guides and workbooks are available to you for preview for thirty days. If you choose to purchase ten or more copies of either texts, the preview items are yours at no charge. If you decide not to purchase them, please call our toll-free number and we will have the items picked up. If you would like more information about previewing these items, please call Customer Service at (800) 237-9932.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1404218319
• ISBN13: 9781404218314
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

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Convers all basics of high school journalism, many good examples. Not current with latest technology, but a very usable text. I'm considering ordering a class set, if the shipping cost isn't too high.

High School Journalism

The book, High School Journalism, by Homer L. Hall was something I picked up off the library shelf thinking "Well, who knows, maybe there'll be a good idea or two in here." I, myself am a high school journalist and after looking through this book, I have many new ideas for my staff.The Brief History of American Journalism is interesting and concise, but also a little overwhelming because the entire span of journalism is fit into ten pages. The Style and Editing chapter points out such common mistakes that sometimes, even good copy editors miss them. The Stylebook, is full of all the information any editor should know. The following chapters give tips on how to write different types of articles, i.e. news, sports, etc. This book is aimed to help both newspaper and yearbook staffs and it does so quite well.My only qualm with this book was the exercises following each chapter. Perhaps this book was meant as a text book to be used in class, but they seemed to me to be frivolous, especially in the large numbers of them.Overall, I will use this book to raise the level at which my staff produces our paper, and I believe it could be very helpful to anyone.