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Welcome to your new career as an Environmental Journalist. Each class member will be responsible for writing and producing a newspaper article about a natural disaster, either past or present. We will be making a class newspaper entitled "Natural Disasters" which we will sell at the school fete. ** You have 4 steps that need to be followed in order for your article to come together as a professional newspaper article. 

 **Step 1 - Pick a Topic!**  You must pick a specific natural disaster and research it in depth so you have enough information to write a newspaper article on it. Your topic must be one of the following: · a bushfire; · volcanic eruption; <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">tsunami; <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">· <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">cyclone; or <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; mso-list: Ignore; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msofareastlanguage: EN-AU; msolist: Ignore;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">·  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">flood  <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Step 2 - Write Your Article!** <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> You need to write an article on your chosen natural disaster for the newspaper. It must be informative and attention-grabbing, and written in a style similar to newspaper articles. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Step 3 - Headline & Photo!** <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> All good newspaper articles have a catchy headline and an interesting photo. You need to make up a catchy headline - a headline that you would expect to see in a newspaper. You also need to find an interesting photo of your natural disaster to grab the reader's attention. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Step 4 - Create the Newspaper!** <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> The last step of your process is to put everything together and present it as a newspaper article. We will be putting everyone's articles together to make our "Natural Disasters" newspaper. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">