Planning a bell ringer for every journalism class is the kind of low-priority task that eats a Sunday evening — not hard, just endless, and easy to run out of ideas for by February when you’ve already used the good ones. I got tired of writing a new one every week, so I sat down and built out an entire year at once instead of doing it piecemeal forever.
See it on Teachers Pay Teachers — $7.19
243 prompts, one for every day from September through June with plenty to spare, organized so they build skills chronologically — news judgment and newsroom roles early, ethics and press law and investigative reporting later. Sixty-three bonus slides cover deeper AP Style practice, First Amendment cases, and commemorative prompts for the months that always sneak up on you. Run it straight through from Day 1, or jump to a topic when you need it — teaching interviews this week? Pull those slides directly.
No more Sunday nights spent staring at a blank slide wondering what Monday’s prompt is going to be.
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