ks2 teachers - help needed for tomorrow if poss,..

[wohmum]

my ds was sick on the friday before half-term so missed the homework they had.

He came home tonight with ' find an article in the Newspaper about a National issue' and bring it in..

he was lookign for floods, bombs, bad weather etc with lots of interestign pictuire... we couldn't find anything similar in todays or yesterdays paper, but I though tLews hamilton woudl be a good one , but he said its not really a 'National issue' is it? more of national interest though.

Does it really matter - issue/interest? whats the difference?
He got a bit stressy about not being able to find anything suitable, so i said i'd have a look tonight.

Any idea what the point of the exercise is ? is it just to have a new article that they can talk about (we have picked out frozen mouse dna cloning as backupo) or is it about looking at an article and the way t is written (discussion, pro's cons etc ) . he;s in yr 5 btw.

Thanks - i know its a bit rambly, but I meant to post earlier but got distracted....

It is impossible to guess what the point of the exercise is. If that's all you have to go on, just take in any national issue article and it will be fine.

Probably too late, but I saw on one of our class noticeboards this morning 'Literacy Objective: to recognise the differences between local and national newspaper reports'

What year group is he? If it's journalistic writing in Year 6, it will probably just be to examine the features of a newspaper report, in which case, pretty much anything will do, as long as you can fins one that doesn't mention sex, drugs or rock and roll!