GOM #4-- Evaluating Periodical Literature
For your 4th genre of the month project, you will be looking at a specific issue of a self-selected example of periodical literature (a magazine, newspaper, journal, etc.) with a critical eye, and you will share your findings with your class via a book talk or a RAFT project.
As your teacher, I will also be completing my own periodical literature evaluation in order to provide you my model of the process and product for this project. Here are some pictures and explanations of my "pre-project" planning. I hope this is helpful to you as you work through your own evaluation. Because this is MY magazine, I have written directly on the magazine; if you are evaluating a magazine or newspaper that doesn't belong to you, feel free to use sticky notes when you do your preliminary evaluation! Write down things that you notice (good or bad) before you start your evaluation. The criteria that you will focus on will become more obvious as you do an initial walkthrough, and it will not be such a daunting or intimidating task :)
I am evaluating neaToday. It is also available online. I would classify it as a periodical because it is printed at least quarterly, and its sub-genre would fall under professional/trade magazine.
I am evaluating neaToday. It is also available online. I would classify it as a periodical because it is printed at least quarterly, and its sub-genre would fall under professional/trade magazine.
Literary evaluation of neaToday winter 2016 issue
This professional trade magazine is published by National Education Association (nea.org)-- a professional teacher’s organization to which I belong through my union.
I have selected the following criteria for evaluation, but my initial “close reading” of the issue includes some notes that focus on a variety of criteria (not limited to these).
Currency
Bias
Accessibility
Relevance
I will complete a model book talk and a model RAFT—an interview (mock, of course) in which I “question the editor” in order to share my findings on the criteria I have selected.
This professional trade magazine is published by National Education Association (nea.org)-- a professional teacher’s organization to which I belong through my union.
I have selected the following criteria for evaluation, but my initial “close reading” of the issue includes some notes that focus on a variety of criteria (not limited to these).
Currency
Bias
Accessibility
Relevance
I will complete a model book talk and a model RAFT—an interview (mock, of course) in which I “question the editor” in order to share my findings on the criteria I have selected.