Feature Article Reflection

By Zach

 About a month ago we started our feature article I was really nervous because I did not know what I wanted too do on all I knew was that I wanted to do a place.At first i thought,  OK I will do all about north america ,but then my friends said that will take to long and I agreed  I did research on some states and and I chose Ohio

First I learned Ohio had 25 Astronauts and that one was Neil Armstrong I thought this was awesome.Then I found that Ohio also had five presidential museums WHAT! I know this is mind blowing so then I instantly got hooked and knew I had to do to my article on Ohio.

During my research I learned so many thing about Ohio. I knew I was going to have a great Feature article and that things were going great i found many research options and has three full pages of information I would say 70% of my research was computer and online research while 30% of it was books.I had so much research and just wanted to use it  all, but then I would have no room for anything else so eventually I deleted some text and narrowed it down to about half of my original text to.

As we put together our article we got to pick five topics and we got to use our research to fill the topics with information.One of the coolest things was the formatting and how we got to move pictures and text boxes wrote up with our style to do our feature article.First I put my research down and wrote about it and elaborated. this really developed the flow and help the story come together.Then we learned about text elements and features, I thought it would be hard to include one but eventually I got to I was really happy with myself and the writing My the  last thing I want to talk about was choosing the title. This was a really cool part We made a google form and had people vote, Eventually most people came up with“ Exploring The Wonderland Of Ohio.” I like this title and I think it was a great choice.

For subtitles I said “Ohio is a really wonderful piece of land and a state filled with joy and there are many cool things to do”.When you read my article you will learn Ohio has many cool things including football, landmarks and has produced many famous people.If you can’t picture this awesome place then you might as well go and buy tickets to visit because you will really like the state. i was really happy with my feature article and was happy with what i had.

  Then came the big day The PUBLISHING SHARE I was nervous, but knew I would do great as people were saying “I am excited to read yours” I was so happy that we got to read our classmates Feature Articles They were all really good and I think people liked mine.I got many comments which, I was happy about and I like them all.

When I was writing my  reflection I tried to use all the information I had about writing a Feature Article and about mine in particular You need to find research on your topic and research that is going to go with your five topics of text this is really hard but I know now that it is not impossible. Then you can go on to use text features, spelling checks, pictures, and most importantly text. You can not make a feature article without text Now that we have some of the main things listed use your own created brain and that creative side of you and find  and use more awesome things because  the list goes on and on.There is so much work put into these feature articles and I thing I did a good job and if I can then so can you.

In all this was great this was my favorite unit yet even though There was many tough times like picking a topic and agreeing on stuff. But  on the other hand, there where could things like finding a good topic,getting many positive comments and having fun doing this unit.

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