Story 1 — Write: 2-line headline with each line counting 22-28
After selling cupcakes, bumper stickers and spirit badges, the varsity cheerleaders
still are short $750 to fund their new uniforms for the 2018-19 school year.
“We are going to have to think of at least one more fundraiser,” cheerleader spon-
sor Riley Smith said. “Maybe we will do a car wash. But whatever we do, we have to
do it fast if we want the uniforms by the fall.”
District policy prohibits cheerleaders from buying uniforms.
“The policy is for all athletics and is to prevent parents from having to spend any
more money,” Principal Sally Sutherland said.
The cheerleaders have not had new uniforms in five years, said cheerleader captain
Meagan Brockmeyer.
“Our current uniforms are so dated,” Brockmeyer, a junior, said. “It’s really disap-
pointing that we haven’t raised enough money yet, but we are not giving up. We need
these new uniforms.”
Story 2 — Write: 3-line headline with each line counting 10-17
Spanish teacher Joy Raja surprised her Spanish IV students with a guest speaker on
Friday — Gabriel Soto, a famous Mexican soap opera actor. He is Raja’s second cousin.
“He was so hot,” senior Heather Nied said. “He only spoke to us in Spanish, but I
understood almost everything he said.”
Raja’s class watches Mexican soap operas to help them with their Spanish.
“The students had no idea that Gabriel was my cousin,” she said. “I know many of
the girls had a crush on him, but he’s happily married with four kids.”
Junior Bella Moreno said she almost couldn’t speak when she saw Soto at the
front of the room.
“I was star-struck,” she said. “Then he started talking, and he’s so laid back and
normal. He let us ask him anything we wanted as long as we asked him in Spanish.”
Raja said she was impressed with how well her students did with the questions.
“I thought the girls might ask silly questions about his hair and if he works out,
but they didn’t,” she said. “They asked him about Mexico, being an actor and even
about U.S.-Mexico relations.”
Story 3 — Write: 2-line headline with each line counting 18-24
To help save the Monarch butterflies, students from Ron Hunter’s Biology II classes
are making small clay balls with milkweed plant seeds inside. The students will spread
the balls throughout the campus garden beds and the walking trail surrounding the
school next week.
“Our Monarch butterfly population has been dwindling here for the past few
years,” Hunter said. “When I started at the high school 10 years ago, we had swarms
of the butterflies in the spring. Last year, I saw two.”
After sharing his concerns with his classes, senior Rachel Brown researched what
students could do to help save the butterflies.
“Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed, and caterpillars only eat
milkweed,” Brown said. “But humans don’t seem to like milkweed very much and are
cutting it down for various reasons.”
Reed’s Garden Supply donated the seeds for the project.
Headline Writing
You are a copy editor
for the Leaguetown
Press, the student
newspaper of League-
town High School.
Write the headline as-
signed for each of the
given six stories. Use
the following system:
all upper and lower
case letters, spaces,
punctuation marks
and symbols count as
1. Capitalize the first
letter of the first word
of each headline. You
may use either upstyle
(capitalizing the first
letter of every word) or
downstyle (capitalizing
the first letter of the
first word and the first
letter of proper nouns
only thereafter). Write
main headlines on the
top line and second-
ary headlines under
the main headline. You
have 45 minutes. Do
not write your name
or the name of your
school on this sheet
or entry. Put your
number (NOT YOUR
NAME) on your paper.
District Meet • 2018
