A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Journalist. Inside: 38 scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 21-word kid-friendly glossary, five pre-reading activities, seven hands-on activities, seven extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and health and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core in both ELA and mathematics, and the C3 Framework. No newsroom and no press pass required — the unit runs on spiral pads, index cards, phone cameras, and public documents any teacher can download free from a local government site. Designed to flex from a single-week media literacy unit to a longer three- or four-week integrated study that ends with students publishing something real — or to be pulled apart and used in pieces across the year: the second-source activity inside a research unit, the lede rewrite inside persuasive writing, the Famous Journalists project alongside a civil rights unit. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the fifteen pages that arrive and the three that matter, the shorthand you cannot read back the next morning, the pothole filled the week a reporter starts asking why, the courage that is not fearlessness but being afraid sometimes and going to the meeting anyway. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling what this work costs the people who do it and on the historical violence documented in the biography chapter — with concrete instructional moves, including reading the hardest passage aloud as a class so that no student meets it alone.