Write Like a Reporter for the Graphic

We read the Junior Graphic in class, the kids version of Ghana's Daily Graphic. The Junior Graphic comes out only on Wednesdays. Georgina Dorkuvie, the Proprietress of the school, goes to Zongo Junction and buys copies for the kids. A lot of the essays the kids write are very moral-based, to the point where they sound almost like narratives accompanying an after school special. Since we're working in English composition class on quotations, this week's assignment is to write about Ghana as if you were a reporter for the Daily Graphic, using at least one quote from an outside source.
This is Bushira's essay about HIV in Ghana.

Bushiratu Abubakar
"Sickness" 04JAN05

HIV is a sickness that is all over the world. Even when you are in your houses you can see someone who is having that sickness. I think we have to do something to kill that sickness. We have to kill that sickness by not going out in the night and we should listen to our parents’ advice. Last night I was in the room watching the television and there was a girl who didn’t listen to he parents’ advice. She followed her friends and she got that sickness.
Some hospitals too are not great at all. So, I think the government must do something to fix that. My father said, “the sickness in Ghana are more dangerous because Ghana has no money. Because the Europeans came to take our gold, so our country is now a HIPC* country.”
A lot of ladies in Ghana practice prostitution because Ghana has no money. Because of that some people even die because they don’t have money. And there is too much traffic in Ghana. The government must do something about that too.

*Highly Indebted Poor Country


"My Father Reading the Graphic"