16 September 2016

Today students were introduced to the essential elements of a feature profile--the lede, the nut graf, the step-back, the come-to-present, and the kicker. We analyzed a recent feature profile about teacher Branic Howard, identifying each element of that profile and discussing the ways the writer provided "markers" in the text to signal shifts from section to section. We discussed how a thread was developed to establish connections between each segment of the story.