Syria: Epicenter of a Deepening Refugee Crisis

Atlas for a Changing Planet

Perilous Paris

Watch the two linked videos.

You each have a chosen country upon which to focus.
Find and annotate the nation's position paper on the Paris conference.
Find and annotate two articles regarding your nation and it's position on climate change.
Choose your articles from different sources.

Choose from...
NY TIMES
Washington Post
Economist
Independent
Guardian
BBC?

again

After the incident......

Meursault changes......

He becomes aware of others, and their responses to him.

10-12 examples.

Organise into an outline.

Write the paper.

Also....

All Meursaulting completed.

Climate Change

Meursaulting

For next Wednesday......


You will be a Meursault.

You will see as Meursault, you will respond as Meursault.


audio, video, written (yawn)



3 incidents minimum

Meursault as observer reporter

What does he see?

what does he say?


about

Marie

Raymond

Salamano


10 points for each character

Meursault as a visceral character

quote

context

explanation to come........


find all on each other's blogs

Friday

Saab

You have the whole lesson to analyse the ad.

Use everything we have learned

Remember to discuss the language in detail, not only the look of the advertisement.

Homework for Wednesday....

1 page paper on Meursault as a character without emotion, up to the point of the beach incident.

write stories

Choose from the stories below, those that would be found in your paper...

then write them up, including headlines and five paragraphs per story using,

• the inverted pyramid format
• everything we have learned about what goes in each paragraph
• everything we have learned about your paper and its particular,

• format
• interests
• political stance
• language usage

then write an analysis paragraph for each, describing why the piece was chosen and written as it was

The stories on the wire today are as follows...

- Zurich to become new financial capital of Europe, traders flocking to Swiss financial center to avoid taxes

- England loses to Sweden and Holland defeats France by selfsame scores of 5-1 in European Cup football warm-ups.

- new study shows that while some immigrants do end up as criminals, more than 90% integrate effectively into British society and are adding to the economy within 10 years of arrival. Only 5% are shown to become members of the criminal community. Approximately 200, 000 immigrants arrive on British soil each year

- David Beckham explains his kissing an Italian model in Milan club was because it is the customary greeting. “It was on the cheek.”

- Meagan Fox says spanking scene in new French directed film “is important to the theme of violence and sadism at the heart of this metaphoric attack on American global imperialism.”

- English housing market continues to stay flat following election

- small dog tortured to death by two old women in Cardiff

Homework 4 Thurs. Nov4

look at the four Liz stories.

Consider the way each is told,

• headlines
• syntax
• diction
• ideas/bias

what newspaper do you think each of these stories is from and why?

How would your newspaper present her story?

Can you write an appropriate headline?

brit newspapers

http://mediadepths.blogspot.com/2010/03/newspapers-in-uk-introduction.html


http://www.britishpapers.co.uk/

liz liz

Revealed: the truth behind 'sweet little old tax rebel'
By Andrew Johnson

Sunday, 22 February 2004
As she tottered out of magistrates court last week, Elizabeth Winkfield, 4ft 10in tall and 83 years old, stepped into the limelight as a figurehead for a growing revolt against council tax charges up and down the country.

Her refusal to pay £98 of her £747 council tax bill was greeted with cheers by supporters and has made her a martyr to a people's revolt gathering momentum. But The Independent on Sunday can reveal that publicity surrounding the case of Ms Winkfield was no fluke. Her very public court appearance is owed at least in part to behind-the-scenes engineering by the UK Independence Party - a minority right-wing political party that wants to see Britain pull out of Europe.

Ms Winkfield is a member of the UKIP, as is another pensioner who also made headlines last month when he refused to pay up. Last week's action was co-organised by the Devon Pensioners Action Forum - run by Albert Venison, 78, who has addressed UKIP meetings - and the UKIP itself.

John Kelly, a regional spokesman for the UKIP, said: "We are giving £11bn a year to the European Union. The issue with council tax is that the Government wants to set up regional assemblies. In the South-west, £1m of the £5m cost will be levied on the district council. It's a tax by stealth. They are making council tax payers support a political experiment. We had a public meeting in Axminster this month and Albert Venison spoke on our platform. But we are absolutely not trying to take over."

Ms Winkfield, from Westward Ho! in Devon, had not expected the legions of national newspaper and television reporters. Nor had she anticipated the large crowd of placard-waving supporters - half of whom are thought to be from the UKIP.

Ms Winkfield told The Independent on Sunday: "If I'd known what was going to happen I would have been terrified out of my wits. I was only expecting one or two people from the local press."

Friends say it was a claim at a UKIP meeting that a proportion of Ms Winkfield's council tax ends up in European coffers that sparked her anger over the council tax. "I told the UKIP and the action forum that I was going, and they must have told other people," she said. "I didn't ask them for any help or advice. Money going to Europe is one of the things I'm concerned about.The expenses of the council leader is four times my income. But if I was a millionaire I'd say the same."

Another pensioner, Fred Estall, 80, from Southampton, who appeared in court last month for non-payment of his council tax, is also a UKIP member. "I'm involved in the council tax campaign because of the UKIP," he said. "We're trying to get involved in local government, to get ourselves known. The council tax campaign was a good chance to get involved with the community, and so it turned out to be. It did start from my UKIP work, but I'm a member of the Meon Valley Action Group and that work is non-political."

The national campaign against high council tax rises is called Is It Fair? and affiliates local groups. It began last year when retired army major John Melsom and his wife Christine, from Hampshire, gave an interview to their local paper when council tax went up by 15 per cent. That led to a website, which quickly resulted in a national campaign.

"I never expected it to become so big," she said. "But no party politics are allowed. There is no political affiliation, although we've had a few of the smaller parties trying to jump on the bandwagon. But we've said no to all of them."

lizzy

I'll go to prison, says council tax woman rebel, 83

An 83-year-old woman said yesterday she would go to jail rather than pay her full council tax.

Elizabeth Winkfield left Barnstaple magistrates court in Devon to cheers from supporters as a pensioners' revolt against above-inflation council tax rises spread.


Miss Winkfield is one of 820 members of the Devon Pensioners' Action Forum, which was created after the county council increased its tax by 17.9 per cent last April.

She faced a bill of £787.81p for her band C bungalow in Westward Ho! on the north Devon coast. She held back £98.80, deciding that, in line with inflation, she was prepared to pay only 2.5 per cent more than the previous year.

Miss Winkfield, who was wearing a suit she made herself and a hat from a jumble sale, was ordered to pay the council £99 and £10 court costs.

As 30 members of the action forum waved banners in support after the hearing, she said: "Even if I was a millionaire I would not pay it.

"I might die before I pay. If they send me to prison, then that is what will happen. I paid the 2.5 per cent increase but I cannot afford any more. I don't like the idea of prison but I would put up with it."

Miss Winkworth was one of 110 people issued with liability orders by North Devon magistrates on behalf of Torridge district council, one of the authorities collecting the tax for the county council.

Albert Venison, 79, who is organising the revolt, said his campaign was ready to contest all 54 county council seats next year.

Condemning the liability orders as "diabolical and unsympathetic", he said: "Miss Winkfield did absolutely brilliantly.

"It is a sad reflection on our society when an 83-year-old woman is taken to court because she owes 98 quid to the council. She has worked hard all her life. God knows, she must have paid enough tax over the years."

Torridge district council said: "With all other local authorities, we have a statutory duty to collect the council tax and have no choice but to apply the legislation as it stands."

Liz again

Rebel pensioner: I'd be a fool to pay council tax


An 84-year-old woman is due back in court this week after again refusing to pay her full council tax.
Asked today whether she would ever be prepared to pay the full sums, Elizabeth Winkfield said :"If I give way now I will look a fool, won't I?
"I am not going to volunteer to pay."
The grey-haired 4ft 10in rebel is set to appear before magistrates on Thursday in Barnstaple, north Devon, over £128.58 she owes for her 2004-05 council tax.
Miss Winkfield, who lives alone in her Band C bungalow in Westward Ho!, is still being pursued by bailiffs for the £172.90 she owes after failing to pay her full 2003-04 bill from Torridge district council.
That outstanding sum includes sums for bailffs and summons costs.
'Too old to worry'
Miss Winkfield said today she was prepared to go to prison, adding: "I am too old to worry about it that much."
As for Chancellor Gordon Brown's Budget announcement of a one-off £200 payment for pensioners to help with council tax bills, she said: "It is a sop. He just wants people to vote for him."
Her protest began two years ago when her council tax rose by £114 to £747 and she paid the council just an extra 2.5% to meet inflation.
When her council tax rose by 6% to £793 for 2004-05 she again paid the council only extra 2.5% for inflation.
The pensioner's council tax bill for the 12 months to March next year is set to rise by 3.8%.
After her first court appearance, Miss Winkfield was critical of the way the Government "poured money down the drain" and gave millions a year to the EC.
"I would not pay the bill if I was a millionaire, and I am not refusing because I cannot afford it. I am making a stand because it is iniquitous," she said.
Miss Winkfield will be supported on Thursday by members of the Devon Pensioners' Action Forum, which has been campaigning for council tax reform.
Chairman Albert Venison said today: "We will have as many people there as possible."

Elizabeth Winkfield

How an 83-year-old woman became a council tax martyr (with a little help)

She was hailed as 'the rebel dressed in tweed'. But, asks Oliver Burkeman, is Elizabeth Winkfield the political innocent she appears?

Oliver Burkeman

The windswept Devonshire seaside resort of Westward Ho! has long had a single claim to fame - it is the only place in Britain with an exclamation mark in its name - and until last week there was no reason to suspect that Elizabeth Winkfield, of all people, was about to provide another. But then the diminutive 83-year-old former shopworker was summoned to appear before magistrates, having refused to pay the whole of a council tax bill she considered excessive. She walked out of the courtroom on Thursday to be greeted by a crowd of placard-waving supporters - and by the time Friday's Daily Mail arrived in newsagents, she was well on the way to becoming a national hero.

"The tax rebel dressed in tweed," as the Mail's front-page headline gleefully anointed her, seemed almost too good to be true. She was as different from the aggressive poll tax protesters as it was possible to imagine; she had never claimed benefits; she had never been in trouble with the law. As the national media descended on Winkfield's bungalow, Labour politicians seemed to severely misjudge the mood. "You have to face up to your responsibilities," an unsympathetic John Prescott told Winkfield during a joint appearance on the BBC's Breakfast With Frost.

You would have had to study last week's coverage in considerable detail to catch even a hint that there was a deeper story behind the sudden fame of Elizabeth Winkfield - an operation in which the rightwing UK Independence party (UKIP) turns out to have been centrally involved, laying the groundwork for a media sensation that the country's leading publicist, Max Clifford, last night admitted he had "engineered". "To begin with," says Mark Clough, a reporter for the Plymouth-based Western Morning News, who had been following the story, "I thought it was 'little old lady couldn't afford to pay'. But now it seems possible that Miss Winkfield was coming from a very different angle."

The Devon Pensioners Action Forum had been promoting the cause of elderly people unable to pay their soaring council tax bills for the best part of six years, but Albert Venison, the 79-year-old who runs the group from his Axminster home, had not exactly been inconvenienced by overwhelming national attention. "When we started, eight or nine of us formed a committee, and we held a public meeting in a church hall," he says. Membership increased gradually, reaching about 500. Many, including Winkfield, agreed that they would not pay any council tax rise beyond the rate of inflation, but few had been summoned to appear in court before her. "I think they're just picking people at random," Venison says, "and this time they picked the wrong one." Venison - who says his group is non-party-political, and that he voted for Tony Blair in 1997 - was widely quoted in the coverage of the Winkfield case, making the case for low-income pensioners, who become ineligible for council tax exemption if their income exceeds the £77 weekly state pension.

This does not, however, appear to have been the main reason for Winkfield's protest - and certainly not the main reason why it was catapulted to national prominence. The 83-year-old is an active member of another organisation, the UK Independence party, which is staunchly opposed to British membership of the European Union: when she became unable to drive three years ago for health reasons, a party spokesman said yesterday, she even donated her car to the local party so that it could be sold to raise funds. It was at a UKIP meeting, a Sunday newspaper reported, that she had heard about how some council tax revenue is spent on EU-level regional assemblies, motivating her to decide to withhold payments. "She argues that her council is guilty of making illegal payments to the SW Regional Assembly and a SW Brussels office, for which it has no mandate, and that council tax should be only for local services," reads a UKIP press release. (Fred Estall, 80, who appeared in court in January for refusing to pay his tax, is also a member.)

When Winkfield was ordered to appear in court, she told her friend David Johnson, another UKIP member. He told Nigel Farage, a UKIP member of the European Parliament who represents south-east England. And on Wednesday, the day before Winkfield was due to appear before magistrates, Nigel Farage told Max Clifford.

"[Farage] spotted her and he phoned me to say 'What do you think of it?' and I said 'It's a national story.'" Clifford told the Guardian last night. "You don't have to be a brain surgeon, do you? It's a little old lady of 83, who's bright, and got principles, et cetera, et cetera." The publicist, who had been doing public relations for UKIP for several months, seized his chance. "I planted it," he says. "If it hadn't been on the front page of the Mail, it would have been on the front page of the Sun the next day. I knew it was a front page."

Winkfield has been quoted as saying that she would have been "terrified out of her wits" had she predicted the media frenzy that followed. "She's a little old lady who's thrown herself into what she thought would be a local storm, and found it's a national storm, which I suppose I've engineered," Clifford says. UKIP made sure there were supporters ready to greet her at the court: John Kelly, the party's regional spokesman, estimates that about half of the placard-wavers were members.

Mark Croucher, national spokesman for UKIP, insists that the decision to involve Clifford was a charitable one - made after the story blew up. "Nigel Farage made that decision ... because Elizabeth couldn't keep up," he says. "Her house was surrounded by TV cameras and reporters. People wanted to buy her life story, so it was decided to direct everybody through Max."

A note on Winkfield's door yesterday explained that she was suffering from bronchitis and laryngitis and would not be speaking to the media. Her phone rang unanswered and she was understood to be at Johnson's house. There was an additional reason for her silence. She has sold her story to the Daily Mail for an estimated £10,000, and will appear on Tonight With Trevor McDonald tomorrow night. "She could have done 20 interviews but she's done none," Clifford says. "She's had quite a relaxing day because she's a little asthmatic today."

Working on behalf of UKIP, some of whose members have been linked to extreme right-wing organisations, seems an odd departure for Clifford, who has never made any secret of the fact that he is a Labour supporter. He remains one, he says, but opposes the government's position on Europe and has agreed to handle UKIP public relations until the election. He denies that Winkfield's involvement with the UKIP undermines her stand. "It's not a party-political broadcast. It's her standing up for what she thinks is right."

Winkfield, says one reporter who worked on the story, "always admitted that she was a member of the UK Independence party, but I think it was conveniently forgotten by the media. Everybody knew about it, but didn't really mention it, because it would have affected the story. They just wanted the pint-sized pensioner." Meanwhile, the impression continues to spread that Winkfield refused to pay the bill because she could not afford to: Venison says he has been telephoned by her local authority, wondering what they should do with the cheques people are sending them to help settle her account. And a new twist was added yesterday when Nick Raynsford, the local government minister, pointed out that, if Winkfield is only receiving her state pension, she ought not to be paying any council tax at all. (She has not revealed her income, but says she would have made the same protest had she been a millionaire.)

Winkfield may have been taken aback by the national storm that she has caused - or that, perhaps, has been caused on her behalf - but Albert Venison, at the Devon Pensioners Action Forum, does not think she is likely to be defeated by it. "She's quite an independent maiden lady, you know," he says. "She's used to knowing what she wants to do and going her own way."

Headlines

Headlines

alliteration
rhyme
intertextuality
brevity
idiom
loaded language
fear
naming
punning (word play)
juxtaposition
consonance, assonance


The headline serves the paper and its relationship to the audience

red banner - short and loosely tied to the story (deck gives real info)
blue banner - shortish and based on fear/outrage
black banner - longer and more sophisticated language
Broadsheet - longer and more sophisticated again

for Wednesday

Newspaper essays completed and posted

examples of both kinds of editorials posted or linked in your blog

5 x 20 pages of The Outsider finished ( the Benny way)

Editorials

2 kinds to be aware of....

Informative

• absolutely clear in focus and intent
• straightforward information presented in analytical essay form.
• introduction, big issue, information from recent, any background information, solution(s), conclusion

look here and here

Persuasive

• intended to show the ability to look at an issue from more than one position
• information presented leading to the all important...
• concession. The 'giving in' to one part of the opposing argument
• the concession is then trumped by a most important point which is intended to convince the audience completely 
• introduction, big issue, information, information, information, concession, rebuttal of concession and final main point, conclusion

look here 

Newspaper paper outline reminder

(mostly for Benedict)

Newspaper Essay Outline

The medium is the message because it shapes the message

to be considered.....

• front page (How many stories?; What stories?; How big and how many graphics?; What are the teasers like and how many? 
• Language- Syntax and diction (diction is more like to be sophisticated or highly sophisticated)
• Banner/Headline/Deck/1st and 2nd paragraph-Does it drops lead? How often? Does the headline speak to the stories?
• Stories about what and who’s perspective 
• editorials- about what? What is the opinion?
• Who is/ are the target demographic?
• size of paper
• Targeted audience?

Introduction

Introduce the newspaper, where it is from, what type of paper it is(broadsheet, tabloid, morning newspaper, Berliner.) Then talk about what key elements will be discussed (ie sophistication, focus of stories, bias ad how these will be examined)

Body Paragraph ONE

Talk about the front page, the amount of graphics and stories. How big the headlines are, what are the teasers like? What does this tell you about the newspaper? What does the front page look like?                

Body Paragraph TWO

What kind of stories are on the front page?

Body Paragraph THREE

How are the stories constructed: headline, deck, graphic. Does the headline speak to the stories? (reference to diction) (diction- word choice and why?/level of audience)

Body Paragraph FOUR

How are the stories constructed: first paragraph (reference to diction and syntax) (diction- word choice and why?/level of audience)(syntax- how you structure you sentence and paragraph)

Body Paragraph FIVE

What comes after each news article( the second paragraph and the rest of the inverted pyramid, does my paper drops lead? If Yes, how often? 

Body Paragraph SIX

What are the editorials about? What kind of editorials are they? What is the opinion?

Conclusion

Sum up all the analysis of each paragraph. What does this tell you about the newspaper? Talk about the demographic. Wrap it up by restating the big point and revisit key ideas from explanations.

The medium is the message because it changes the message

for Mingxuan

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/refugees-hungary-croatia-muslims-tensions

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/labour-austerity-tax-credits-economic

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/25/refugee-crisis-european-union

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