Boring dayyy~

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Soooo today was a SLOW DAY! We pretty much presented design elements (such as space, color, size, etc) and submitted our headline and art ideas. AND IT'S GEORGE HARRISON'S BIRTHDAY~(: WOOT~
So yeah. A slow day is pretty much all today was. Our TAKS is in 4 days....
Happy Friday, guys! 


--TrufflesFB (Shweta), Stardust (Vandana), Cheesecake (Chaaru) and Guguraguragurakhrkhrkhr (Estefani).

MEDIA KIT~! :D :D :D

Hey everyone!


We have finished our Media Kit! Please enjoy it and comment (if you can) :D We hope you enjoy it!! (:


http://issuu.com/nomnom/docs/media_kit

--TrufflesFB (Shweta), Stardust (Vandana), Cheesecake (Chaaru) and Guguraguragurakhrkhrkhr (Estefani).

Media Kits!

Hey everyone!

Today Ms. Young isn't here (*sad face*) so we're working on our Media Kits. We've decided to have a chili pepper as our end sign since the name of our magazine is "Piccante" so yeah :D Anyone got any good food story ideas we could use? (:

--TrufflesFB (Shweta), Stardust (Vandana), Cheesecake (Chaaru) and Guguraguragurakhrkhrkhr (Estefani).

Truffles' Leads :)

Lead 1: (Twist) Most american diets have some kind of meat everyday, and people believe that so much meat is not good for your health and might be the reason for obesity. But vegetarians arent having a healthy diet as they think they are. There are many proteins that are only provided by meat and cannot be found in fruits and vegetables.




Lead 2: (Direct address) You have heard that vegetarianism is the best diet to follow but you have been learning from 2nd grade that meat is one of the requirements of the food pyramid. It is necessary for you to eat some kind of meat once a week for a better and healthy life.


Lead 3: (Rhetorical question) How is it possible that lack of meat is actually bad for a regular diet?

Vandana's Chocolate extinction leads!

Lead ideas: How chocolate may go extinct in 15-20 years if farming practices aren't improved.

By Star

Lead 1.) Rhetorical question or descriptive:
Imagine a world without chocolate. How empty would life feel, not being able to reach out and grab that delicious, delightful, scrumptious bar and shove it down your throat? And it isn’t just one chocolate bar out of our lives. No more brownies, Valentine’s Day, and NO MORE LOVE (okay, maybe not)!

Lead 2.) Narrative:
Field worker Alan, working in his cocoa fields in Ghana, as usual, is collecting the cocoa plants to give to his boss, who will hand them over to the big factories where chocolate is produced, when all of a sudden, he realizes that all the plants in the entire area are slowly dying. His coworkers, too, have realized that the cocoa plants they collected only a week ago look weak-- their leaves brown and their branches withering away into the wind.

Lead 3.) Compare and Contrast:
A hundred years ago, chocolate companies such as Cadbury were booming with business as the world slowly began to learn about its’ delicious taste. If a child got a chocolate bar from his parents, for instance, then it was considered a great reward for him. Now, almost 7,671,233 pounds of chocolate are consumed by people in the U.S. every day. Little do these chocolate lovers know that the wonderful sweet they consume every day is about to be extinct.

Estefani's leads

Rhetorical question

Why must chocolate go through so much criticism? A student may have some of the answers.

Compare and contrast

There are two types of people, those who like chocolate and those that dislike it. The ones that do like it have lower blood pressure, while does that don’t suffer from a lack of cacao.

narrative

The cacao bean grown in many parts of South Africa is loved by many around the world. Chocolate is what motivates some and soothes others.

Chaaru's Opinion Piece Lead Ideas: Why we should go to farmer's markets before the grocery store

 Lead Ideas: Why we should go to farmer's markets before the grocery store

by Cheesecake

Lead 1 (Direct address lead):

Tomorrow when you shop for those scrumptious fresh veggies to put in your pasta primavera, instead of spending too much money on organic vegetables at the retail grocery store down the block, try your local farmer’s market. In this quirky atmosphere you might find lower prices, better support your local economy, and help out the environment.


Lead 2 (Rhetorical Question):
What is an easy way to eat great food without busting the bank, stimulate the local economy, and lend the environment a helping hand? Make a visit to your neighborhood farmer’s market.


Lead 3 (Descriptive & Twist):
“Milling around the farmers’ market with like-minded foodies, buying fresh produce grown on nearby small farms, listening to local musicians play local songs, and supporting a variety of homegrown artisans certainly qualifies as an enriching community experience,” says Freakonomics author Stephen J. Dubner when speaking of farmer’s markets. He does not personally subscribe to the appeal of befriending those who grow the food he eats, but finds that farmer’s markets foster community ties unheard of in supermarkets.

Learning new things? OH and title idea and CHAARU'S NEW NICKNAME!

Heylo, our beloved viewers and followers!

Today we learned a lot about InDesign and how to do text-wrapping, opacity of letters, etc. It took a while O.o
Oh and yesterday Shweta and Chaaru thought of a new title idea for our magazine: Piccante! Apparently it means "spicy" in Italian, so our mascot could be a red chili pepper! :P We also thought of our opinion stories already! :D OH AND CHAARU NOW HAS A NICKNAME! Please welcome Cheesecake (Chaaru)!! Om nom nom nom :3

--TrufflesFB (Shweta), Stardust (Vandana), Cheesecake (Chaaru) and Guguraguragurakhrkhrkhr (Estefani).