Bylines & Beyond

03/10/2026

Engage your students with this Journalism Escape Room focused on media literacy, fact-checking, and source verification. Perfect as a no-prep journalism sub plan or a back-to-school team builder, this "Breaking News" challenge tasks students with verifying rumors and beating the deadline. This interactive activity works for Secondary ELA, Yearbook, and Mass Media classes.

03/10/2026

Stop the 'Post-Deadline Slump.' This 5-6 week Journalism Final Project guides students through a professional Yearbook Theme Proposal, keeping your staff engaged after the final deadline.

Perfect For:

High School Yearbook Advisors

Digital Media & Graphic Design Teachers

Journalism 1 & Advanced Journalism Classes

CTE Arts, A/V Technology, and Communications pathways

The problem it Solves: This project eliminates the post-deadline slump by giving students a high-stakes, professional task: pitching the visual and verbal identity for next year's book.
5-6 Week Structured Timeline: Breaks down theme development into weekly assessments (Verbal, Visual, and Final Pitch).

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Yearbook-Final-Project-Post-Deadline-Theme-Proposal-Portfolio-Journalism-15694163

08/05/2025

Time to plan lessons for the year! Check out my TPT store for journalism and English teachers and get 25% off through Wednesday. Use code: BTS25
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/store/bylines-beyond

06/26/2025

Need a lesson plan for the sub? Students will gain understanding of photojournalism and evaluate some of history's most compelling photographs. The lesson plan and rubric are included along with a checklist for students.

Students will gain understanding of photojournalism by researching seven historic photographs and the stories they tell. On an interactive Google Slide deck or Power Point, students will answer questions about the event and then dig deeper by writing a caption for each photo and evaluating the ethic...

06/23/2025

Journalism advisers and teachers, take your students' interactive notebooks online with the latest resource posted on Teachers Pay Teachers. The interactive notebook includes sections for journalism foundations, ethics, yearbook, newspaper, photography, notes and brainstorming. Teachers can personalize the Google Slide deck to suit their preferences and curriculum. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digital-Journalism-Interactive-Notebook-13790009

05/08/2025

Enhance understanding of Julius Caesar in this analysis of Caesar as a cult of personality based on the Living Colour 1988 Grammy-winning song "Cult of Personality." Students will analyze the concept of cult of personality, literary devices in the song lyrics, and Caesar's power and character traits. Includes lesson plans for three days, video and song lyric links, handouts, and a quiz.
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Julius-Caesar-Cult-of-Personalty-Characterization-Literary-Devices-Writing-13518740

05/01/2025

Tackle those elusive storytelling captions for sports photos with this lesson and activity designed to break down the process of reporting and writing journalistic captions for student publications. Writers will learn to read box scores to gather background information for championship level captions. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sports-Caption-Writing-Playbook-13476799

04/25/2025

This is my first - and free - resource on Teachers Pay Teachers! It is my tried-and-true, go-to lesson for writing editorials and argumentative essays.

Give students voice when they take on an issue from a nonfiction selection of your choosing. They will analyze arguments for and against and then put that analysis to work in an editorial based on classic argumentation style. This lesson guides them through the reading and analysis stage to the writ...

04/25/2025

Bad caption writing can leave advisers adrift, but this lifeboat might be just what you need to get everyone on board. Break down the process of writing captions and have your students compete to become the Caption Captains in this latest product on my TPT Store. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/O-Captions-My-Captions-Journalistic-Writing-13421223