Opinions Writing Practice Activity

Title- Student sharing, too much change or great opportunity?
1. Editorial
2. The story was about the opinion on FIT and how it effects students and teachers.
3.  Their direct opinion on FIT was favoring FIT and having extra time to work on homework but thinks their are a couple things that are unfair about it. "While I think we should have FIT everyday, I don't think that FIT is more valuable than actual class time."-Quote
4. Yes they did address the other side of the FIT because they describe how FIT is beneficial to students who use the time wisely they also describe how they students should of gotten a voce in the decision and the unfair way its being enforced.
5. I don't think that their writing was wishy-washy because even though they do bring up the topic of how class is more important then FIT two times the second time the writer agrees with what they said earlier. "While that's valid because again, class time is more valuable than FIT, I think that shorter class times are worth the extra 30 minutes of study time."-Quote
6. There are no quotes in this story.
7. They wrote in 1st person point of view.

Title- The office welcomes the dawn of the technology age
1. Kelsie Stella, Staff Writer
2. Their story is about the new system in the office that moves documents like the V.O.E online to the website to make it easier for students to access the document.
3. Their opinion on the new technology in the office is easier and more efficient for students and parents. "I think that moving towards more a technology-based system for these two documents, especially at a school like this, is going to prove to be extremely successful." -Quote
4. They did address the other side of the new technology by describing that not all students are able to access the internet so instead they have to get the documents from the office or get it on the library computers.
5. Their opinion wasn't wishy-washy because they didn't go back and change their opinion on the new technology. " The office will still carry hard copies of both these things or they will advice you to go to the library and access the documents from one of their computers." -Quote
6. There are no quotes in this story.
7. They wrote in 2nd of view in till the end then they change into 1st person point of view at the very end.

Title- I scream, you scream...
1. Nya Martin, Staff Writer
2. Their story was about the type of food poisoning four in some Blue Bell ice cream that caused three deaths.
3. Their opinion on the food poisoning from Blue bells once cream is that the company is responsible for the deaths of the people who were effects by it and that Blue Bell had returned way to soon.
4. the writer did show a little of the other said when they talked about how everybody makes mistakes but then went on to explain that theses mistakes could have been prevented.
5. They were not wishy-washy in their opinion because they stayed focused on how this is Blue Bells fault.
6. There were not any quotes in this story.
7. The writer wrote in 1st point of view throughout the while story.

The problems with pep rallies 
1. Annika Holm, Commentary Editer
2. The story is about whats wrong with the prep rallies and what could be fixed to help improve the prep rallies.
3. "...The way pep rallies aren't doing anyone any good."-Quote
4. They did show the what the other side might think about this at the very beginning.
5. The writer wasn't wishy-washy about their opinion because they said whist was wrong and then continuing explaining what they could have done instead to make it better.
6. There are not any quotes in this story.
7. They uses 3rd point of view though out the whole story.

Emotional learning effective?
1. Melissa Weprin, Staff Writer
2. The story is about how fresh am are taught emotional learning skills in their world geography but it is taught in a way that is not effective for students.
3. "I believe the way the skills are being taught makes them ultimately unmemorable and unhelpful."-Quote
4. They did show what the other side might think as bout it but explained what could be done to improve it.
5. The writer wasn't wishy-washy in their opinion because they stayed focused on how it should be taught.
6. There are not any quotes in this story.
7. The writer wrote in 1st person point of view though out the whole story.

A call for athletic equality
1. Amaya Marquez, Staff Writer
2. The story is about how there are sports teams at school that don't get as much attention and are represented as "clubs" instead of sports teams like lacrosse.
3. "I definitely feel like we should get just as much attention just like the other sports."-Quote
4. They didn't show what the other side might think about this.
5. The writer wasn't wishy-washy in their opinion because the stayed focused on what should be down about this.
6. There are not any quotes in this story.
7. The writer wrote in 1st person point of view though out the whole story.

A. Some major difference is that opinion stores the writer uses worlds like "I" and "me" while news stories do not. News stories are facts while opinion writing is what the writer thinks. Also news stories uses quotes while opinion stories do not.
B. I don't think there are very many photos on this pages cause its what the writer thinks.
C. I think that three things that would be good to write a opinion piece on is how cancer doesn't just effect the patient it effects the people around them, the effect technology has on children, what tv does to children's brains.