STEP 2: Give students five minutes to brainstorm and make notes about how they could turn their story ideas into elevator pitches. STEP 1: Break students up into their production groups (unless students will be producing stories by themselves). newsworthy)Īsk students what they think an elevator pitch is.Īnswer: a pitch that could be delivered during a short elevator ride (30 seconds or less)
#Your story plus#
What is the STORY? (beginning, middle, end, plus conflict and resolution).
STEP 3: Ask students what similar (or different) elements a journalist might include when pitching a story to an editor. Did they include why their plan/request mattered-why they cared and why the other person should care too?.Did they include important details (who/what/when/where)?.STEP 2: Ask for a student volunteer to talk briefly about a time they successfully pitched a plan to someone. Young people are actually pitching all the time! Then ask students if they have ever tried to convince a parent or teacher to let them do something (go to a friend’s house, sign up for a sport or activity, get an extension on an assignment, etc.). STEP 1: Ask students if they have ever “pitched” a plan to anyone.
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