SC-L18 Making a Magazine

Making a Magazine by Dolores Vasquez 《製作一本雜誌》作者：Dolores Vasquez

What does it take to make a magazine? Our class was getting ready to find out. We had decided to plan and publish our own magazine.製作一本雜誌需要做哪些事呢？我們班正準備要找出答案。我們決定要規劃並出版一本屬於我們自己的雜誌。

First, we would learn everything that’s **required** to make a magazine. We’d need to choose story ideas. Then we’d do research and gather facts. We’d write stories and take photographs to go with them.首先，我們要學會製作雜誌所**必須**了解的一切。我們需要選擇故事點子。接著我們要做研究、蒐集事實。我們會寫文章，也會拍照片來搭配文章。

To get started, we looked at other magazines for ideas. We read the stories. We studied the pictures. We began to discuss plans for our own magazine. What sort of articles should be in the magazine? How should it look?為了開始進行，我們先看其他雜誌來找靈感。我們讀裡面的文章。我們仔細研究照片。我們開始討論自己雜誌的計畫。雜誌裡應該要有什麼類型的文章？它應該要長什麼樣子？

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**Learning from an Expert**  
**向專家學習**

"Students," said Mr. Gomez, "I'd like to introduce the best magazine writer in the nation. This is Annie Smith. She travels around the world writing about exciting events. Still, when she first started work, she was closer to home."Gomez 先生說：「同學們，我想介紹全國最棒的雜誌作家給你們認識。這位是 Annie Smith。她到世界各地旅行，寫下令人興奮的事件。不過，她剛開始工作時，是在離家比較近的地方。」

Annie told us about her first job. She worked at a magazine in the small town where she grew up. She wrote about interesting people who lived there.Annie 跟我們說她的第一份工作。她在自己長大的小鎮的一間雜誌社工作。她寫住在那裡的有趣人物。

Her favorite story was about an old man who ran a bakery. People came from far away to buy his cakes, but they did not know his background. He had once worked as a chef at the White House!她最喜歡的一篇故事，是關於一位經營麵包店的老先生。大家從很遠的地方來買他的蛋糕，可是他們不知道他的來歷。他以前曾在白宮當廚師呢！

Annie's story about the old man won a prize. That really helped her career take off.Annie 寫的那篇關於老先生的故事得了獎。那真的幫助她的職涯一飛沖天。

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**Planning Stories**  
**規劃文章**

Annie gave us many **insights** into what makes a good magazine story. Now it was time for us to come up with our own story ideas. We decided to follow Annie’s **formula**. We’d interview interesting people in our own neighborhood.Annie 給了我們很多對於「好雜誌故事要怎麼寫」的**見解**。現在輪到我們想出自己的故事點子了。我們決定照著 Annie 的**方法**來做。我們要訪問住在自己社區裡的有趣人物。

We talked about people who lived and worked nearby. Everyone suggested ideas. Then we chose our favorites. We picked three people to interview.我們討論住在附近、在附近工作的人。每個人都提出點子。接著我們選出最喜歡的。我們挑了三個人來採訪。

The class split up into three teams of writers. Each would interview one person and write a story.全班分成三個寫作小組。每一組要訪問一個人，並寫一篇文章。

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My team had come up with a great idea for the magazine. Although we lived in the city, we would write about activities that usually take place in the country.我們這一組想出了一個很棒的雜誌點子。雖然我們住在城市，我們要寫的是通常在鄉下才會進行的活動。

Shana knew a family who lived near the park. They kept bees. Paul had an uncle who raised chickens.Shana 認識一戶住在公園附近的人家。他們養蜜蜂。Paul 有個叔叔養雞。

"Nobody is interested in chickens," said Shana.Shana 說：「沒有人會對雞有興趣啦。」

"Any subject can be interesting if the writer makes it interesting," said Mr. Gomez. Then he reminded us about the community garden that many of us passed each day on the way to school. How could we find out who had started it? What did people grow there?Gomez 先生說：「只要作者把它寫得有趣，任何主題都可以很有趣。」接著他提醒我們，很多人每天上學路上都會經過那座社區花園。我們要怎麼找出是誰創辦的呢？大家在那裡種些什麼呢？

"That's a great idea, Mr. G," I said.我說：「這主意太棒了，G 先生！」

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**Conducting an Interview**  
**進行採訪**

My team went to the community garden. We asked around and found that it was started by a woman named Laura Antonio. We searched her out. She told us that the garden used to be an empty lot. Now twenty different families grew food there. Laura grew enough tomatoes to make ten gallons of tomato sauce each summer!我們這一組去了社區花園。我們到處打聽，發現這座花園是由一位名叫 Laura Antonio 的女士創辦的。我們去找到了她。她告訴我們，這座花園以前是一塊空地。現在有二十個不同的家庭在那裡種食物。Laura 每年夏天種的番茄多到可以做出十加侖的番茄醬！

We asked Laura about her background.我們詢問 Laura 關於她的背景。  
How did she learn how to grow things?她是怎麼學會種植東西的呢？  
Laura explained that she grew up on a farm in Italy.Laura 解釋說，她在義大利的一座農場長大。  
When she moved to the United States, she missed growing things.當她搬到美國後，她很想念種東西的日子。  
She decided to start the community garden.她決定開始成立社區花園。  
She helped other city families grow vegetables there, too.她也幫助其他住在城市裡的家庭在那裡種蔬菜。

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Putting It All Together **把一切整合起來**

The interview with Laura gave us great insights into how a community garden works.和 Laura 的訪談讓我們更深入了解社區花園是怎麼運作的。  
We learned why gardens are great for the community.我們也學到為什麼花園對社區很有幫助。

There was still more work to do.我們還有更多工作要做。  
We did research in the library and on the Internet.我們在圖書館和網路上做了研究。  
We learned more facts about community gardens to add to our story.我們學到更多關於社區花園的事實，好加進我們的故事裡。  
Then we wrote the story.接著我們寫出這篇故事。  
We checked to make sure all the information was correct.我們檢查，確保所有資訊都是正確的。  
Finally, we reread the story and made a few changes to improve it.最後，我們再讀一次故事，並做了一些修改，讓它變得更好。

We had a lot of photographs, and we couldn't decide which ones to use.我們有很多照片，卻不知道該選哪些來用。  
So, we showed them to another team.所以我們把照片拿給另一組看。  
Together, we worked out which ones were best.我們一起討論出哪些照片最適合。

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Publishing the Magazine **出版雜誌**

At last, we had all finished our stories.終於，我們都完成了自己的故事。  
Nobody has ever worked so hard!從來沒有人這麼努力過！  
We were ready to put our words and photographs together on the computer.我們準備在電腦上把文字和照片排版在一起。  
When we were finished, we printed out one copy of the new magazine.完成後，我們先印出一份新雜誌。  
We checked it to make sure there were no mistakes.我們檢查它，確保沒有錯誤。  
There were mistakes!結果真的有錯！  
We fixed them.我們把它們改正。  
Then we printed out lots of copies for our friends, families, and other students at school.接著我們印了很多份，給朋友、家人，還有學校的其他同學。

We had published our first magazine!我們出版了第一本雜誌！  
We learned a lot and had fun, too.我們學到很多，也玩得很開心。  
Maybe some of us will be famous magazine writers some day!也許有一天，我們之中有人會成為有名的雜誌作家！

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