Inverted Pyramid Day 2
READ the following article and then answer the questions that follow in RED
1. Why do newspaper writers put the who, what, when, where, why, and how in the "lead?" Use details and information from the passage to support your answer.
2. Where do you find the most important information in a news article?
3. If you were an editor and had restricted space, what paragraphs could be cut from "4th Grader Wins Florida Bee?" Use details and information from the story to support your answer.
Inverted Pyramid Practice
The following paragraphs are out of order.
Can you identify the correct order to convert them into inverted pyramids? Write
the entire corrected paragraph for you answer.
4.
Davis
had been identified by police as a suspect when he was released from jail in
1998 after his 1996 conviction for breaking and entering.
Davis came across the woman who saw a police car near her home and fled, screaming, out her door. Davis fled but was soon captured.
A 35-year-old Echo Park man, Anthony D. Davis, was charged with robbery in connection with the break in of a neighbor early Tuesday.
Davis, who lives a block from the victim, broke into the woman's home shortly before midnight, prosecutors allege. He then went searching through the house for money and valuables.
5.
The university is in a heavily wooded area favored by
moose, but attacks are rare. The last fatal moose attack in Anchorage was in
1993 when a woman was trampled in her yard.
The moose charged Myong Chin Ra, 71, as he tried to enter the gymnasium Friday, according to campus police. Ra fell as he tried to run away.
People had been throwing snowballs, yelling, whistling and shouting as the moose and calf for hours, and the animals were agitated when Ra arrived and tried to walk past them.
An agitated moose, taunted for hours by students as it roamed the University of Alaska campus with its calf, trampled a man to death.
6.
The
operation was called Quick Strike and began Wednesday with Iraqi soldiers and
Marines positioning their units.
The Marines and Iraqi units focused on an area around the cities of Haditha, Haqlaniyah, and Parwana, about 130 miles northwest of Baghdad.
Fourteen Marines and their civilian translator were killed Oon Wednesday inside a lightly armored vehicle when they were hit by a massive roadside bomb near Haditha.
The operation was aimed at disrupting insurgents and foreign fighters in the valley.
U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces launched attacks in western Iraq in the Euphrates River valley, the U.S. military said Friday.
Turn in your paper at the end of the week with all of your other assignments.