Do the Math

Our zine will be comprised of ten pieces of 11x17 paper, folded in half.

This gives the Fried Eagle staff 40 pages to fill.

One page will be the front cover.
Another page will be a letter from the editors.
A third page will become the table of contents.
We also plan to have four pages of paid advertisements.
And there will be a page thanking sponsors who help fund this dream.

But why do all the math when there are two boys in swimsuits ready to help?

They figured the Fried Eagle staff has 32 pages to fill.

Minus the completed articles that have already been turned in which are:

Five pages for Paper Airplanes.
Four pages for Pumpkin Pie.
One page for How to Make a Fort.
Four pages for Lone Fir Cemetery: Portland's Dead People.
Four pages for the interview with Senator Chip Shields (still untitled).
And one page for The Missing (Gasp, what? Missing! No, just kidding.) The Escaped Parakeet

This leaves 13 pages to fill.

But...

We have two interviews scheduled with Portland's mayoral candidates and one field trip to Slappy Cakes with author and restaurant critic Paul Gerald.

And if each of these articles takes up four pages of space, well...

...go ahead, do the math.

The Eagle Soars

(Interview with Senator Chip Shields)

Team Fried Eagle is rockin' and rollin'! 

Articles in incubation are:

--Chemistry experiment with Bio-plastics
--Comic strip "Cheesy Cheetah" (or something close to that)
--Ghost story or chapter story 
--Dedication page to LeRoy Ellis (Portland's first Trailblazer) + making LeRoy's favorite cheese crackers
--How to make duct tape wallets and sock zombies

Articles completed and turned in are:

--Paper Airplanes
--Pumpkin Pie
--How to Make a Fort
--Lone Fir Cemetery: Portland's Dead People
--Interview with Senator Chip Shields
--The Missing (Gasp, what? Missing! No, just kidding.) The Escaped Parakeet

Plus, we have two upcoming interviews and one field trip:

--Mayoral candidate: Charlie Hales
--Mayoral candidate: Jefferson Smith
--Review of Slappy Cakes with Paul Gerald

The best part has been watching the evolution of these articles from an idea into the tangible copy. Us parents tend to know exactly where these ideas will lead, but then our kids surprise us with their creative twists and turns. It has been so much fun to facilitate this unpredictable process. 

Go team Eagle, go!