English

This exploratory course requires students to produce a newspaper or audio/video news broadcast. Through their work, students learn about newspaper and broadcast writing and production.

Students will:

• Learn and use journalistic style.
• Analyze print and/or television broadcasts for content and technical quality.
• Write news articles including editorials, features, and sports and/or develop broadcast shorts including commercials, public service announcements, or news shows, public service announcements, and commercials.
• Experience the various jobs of journalistic work such as proofreading, editing, layout of pictures and copy, headlines, writing script preparation, and final production.

Students will practice all elements of preparation, delivery, and evaluation in preparing and presenting speeches including:

• Research, organize, and outline speeches.
• Develop techniques for impromptu and extemporaneous speeches.
• Deliver speeches from both outlined and prepared texts.
• Develop techniques for highly effective communication, such as humor, quotations, props, and graphic information.
• Learn oratorial skills for effective delivery.

This elective course requires students to produce a newspaper or news broadcast. Through their work, students learn about newspaper and broadcasting writing and production.

Students will:

• Learn and use journalistic style.
• Analyze print and/or television broadcasts for content and technical quality.
• Write news articles including editorials, features, and sports and/or develop broadcast shorts including commercials, public service announcements, or news shows.
• Experience the various jobs of journalistic work such as proofreading, editing, layout of pictures and copy, headline writing, script preparation, and final production.

In this course students produce the school yearbook. Through their work, students learn about publication writing and production.

Students will:

• Experience the various jobs of journalistic work such as proofreading, editing, layout of pictures and copy, writing headlines and captions, final production, and distribution.
• Learn and use journalistic style.
• Write a variety of articles suitable for publication.
• Proofread and edit articles.