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Our class had to research about conspiracies that made us interested. With a partner we had to create a presentation that had facts to either debunk the conspiracy or make it more believable, our goal was to support each side of the argument so others can believe what they want.
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Our teacher gave us the class period for trying to see if this website was real, and if the information published into this website was accurate or not. Our class then came to a conclusion that Dr.p was the one who created this website. His reason to why he made us research about it had to do with our new project. We decided that our project was to fool the entire school with a hoax.
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If you click on the link you can see the hoax story that I made with my partners. We came up with this idea because we wanted it to relate to everyone at our school. By saying that everyone who applied to entire HTHCV signed off their parental rights to the school. We got multiple critiques on the story to make it more believable before we could pitch it out to the class.
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Dr.P had us write a reflection "My Story So Far" After the class realized that we wont be able to do the original conspiracy project. I was able t write about what I was anxious about and how hard it is trying to create a cover up project with lack of communication.
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This police report was made within my table group of 4 people. we were given a crime scene and had to find out if the case was a murder or a suicide. we did this to practice looking for red flags which helped us throughout the project.
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In this essay each student had to write about their own opinion answering the question. "What's the biggest threat to journalism?" I wrote about how some publications have more freedom with posting biased articles than others. My views to this question has changed throughout this project because now I think the biggest threat to journalism is Fake news influencing people with false information
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In this photo it shows my table groups version of a fake news article. With the same groups that made the police report we had to make a fake new article that looked real enough to fool people from the other class. The other class had to read our article and find as many red flags as they can, and vice versa.
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Red flag that I Included
The first red flag that you're able to see is how there is no about or contact us page. The second is who sponsored the article, Ella's kitchen, which is a baby food brand. The third, is when the article was posted and when the incident happened. fourth, the website says Thewashingtonpost.co, the .co means that it isn't an official website. |
This is my final product. It is a fake news article that has been through several critiques to make it look and sound realistic when quests from exhibition read it. I decided to write about something that would have an emotional response, mostly from parents. I wrote about how parents have been finding dangerous items in their child's Gerber's snacks. It took me two days to finally decide that this was what I was going to write abut. Before exhibition we had 8th graders read these articles to see if they are able to spot the red flags that we've included. then revised it for Exhibition.
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this link shows you how the set of exhibition was and how we presented information to our guests. exhibition we had tables set up around the room. like a café, with a area selling food for guests and we had a wall that had our fake news articles. each guest read through the article and had to find red flags themselves. after they found a few, a student would go up to them and explain why the red flags help with knowing if it's a fake article and to also help then find the ones that they've missed. The guests had a baloney detector while they were reading articles, marking down the red flags and to grade the article from A to D. A being a article that is not biased at all and has reasonable information. and D being a completely biased article with unreasonable information.
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