Holy smoke!

Artist 'monk' gives gravity defying

performance

Using the Story Web handout, fill in the following chart with informational that could be factual (so
no Star Trek-hovering technology or alien abductions).
Who

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What

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Where

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When

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Why

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How

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Every news story needs to have a Lead Sentence. This lead sentence, or just Lead for short, should
answer as many of the 5 Ws as possible within a single sentence or two, and still grab your readers
attention. It gives the reader a (very) quick summary of what they are about to read, and what to expect
when they read. Each of the 5 Ws can produce and/or answer many different questions each, so the lead
sentence needs to spit out only the very basic facts of the story; the details will come later in the body of
the story/article.
Using only this information, create a lead paragraph for the story you created details for in the chart
above.

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