MEDIALIT HON/GIF

Class: World/Media Lit (only open to HG students who were successful in 9th, 10th, and 11th language arts).

Structure:  World/MediaLit is run as an asynchronous course in which you will be given weekly instructions and assignments. You will use a class website that has a new page for each week that goes over the content, resources, materials, and assignments for that week.  All work is done through Google Classroom or outside softwares that will be linked to your Classroom assignments. Work is turned in at the end of each week, so you are able to schedule your time as it best fits your schedule. Your instructor is available during your class period as ‘office hours’ and through other methods including Remind and email, but it is your responsibility to reach out any time you need assistance. Students who fall below passing will be pulled from the asynchronous experience at the six, nine, and twelve week mark and will only be allowed to continue asynchronously upon completely catching up. At the end of the semester, students who have shown their performance to be unsatisfactory (poor participation, failing grades, etc.) will be removed from the online course and put into a regular Language Arts class.

*District Assessments, SPGs, CFAs, or other assessments may be required to be taken at school.  Your teacher will give you advanced notice.

Content: We spend the year doing a mixture of current events, media studies, learning about advertising and persuasive methods, digital literacy and why those skills are so important to all the jobs you plan on having when you leave high school, and how all the language arts skills you have spent the last decade learning apply to all facets of life. We do some reading of literature, study news, look at documentaries, political propaganda, graphic and informational analysis, public speaking, personal and business writing, and work on deeper comprehension of all of the above. 

*NOTE: Acceptance into Online MediaLit DOES NOT GUARANTEE PARKING. In the event that you do not get a parking spot, you will have to provide your own transportation to school. Since this is an online class, you are not allowed to ride the bus to school and simply ‘hang out’ until your face to face period.