This unit is intended to familiarize students with some of the basic skills required
to write news articles. Students will learn about the structure of news articles, and will practice writing, editing, and critiquing news articles.
In this lesson, students analyze a writer's use of sensory details and descriptive language in a New York Times article reviewing the Apple iPhone. Then, students are asked to write original product reviews which incorporate some of the descriptive writing techniques identified and evaluated in class.