Reddit mentions of School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide

This book helped me immensely with Journalism in HS (I also primarily teach ELA and do Yearbook/Journalism but MS now, which is harder)

http://www.amazon.com/School-Newspaper-Advisers-Survival-Guide/dp/078796624X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394324648&sr=1-1&keywords=journalism+advisor+books

This helped me teach concepts. We also use newspapers to analyze topics and the kids find blogs they like that keep up with news or columns from a POV. I'm working on a school blog now (I've done that with HS before) which is a fun way to keep them working constantly.

After yearbook is the hardest time. We still have our blog but that's not a 5 day a week gig for the whole class.

There are a variety of photojournalism projects I've done; I show a movie sometimes and have them then do a photo-collage re-interpreting it. They also pick quotes and do photo projects based on quotes. And they do an "Our School, Our Town" project with photos from around town/school that they think are indicative of their culture.

I also save my big "Reviews" unit for this time of year, though we do limited reviews throughout the year. We do food reviews, music reviews, movie reviews, etc. The kids like opinion writing, so that's always fun for them.

We also work on typing all year, so I still have that.

I also always do a presentation project in the last quarter. This year, the kids are presenting a career or college major they're interested in using Prezi. But I've done other topic sets too.

When I was in HS, we did resume and cover letter writing at the end of the year as well.