Students will learn several software programs to publish the school yearbook. Students will work to develop their photography skills, marketing skills, and journalistic writing skills. This publications class is generally limited to twenty-five students. Students must be responsible, self-motivated, reliable, and prompt.
Students will learn skills to create, manage, and produce school news media that can be published using a variety of print and digital formats and platforms. Students will develop skills in journalistic writing, interviewing, research, photography, layout and design, and editing. This publications class is generally limited to twenty-five students. Students must be responsible, self-motivated, reliable, and prompt.
Journalism provides an overview of the fundamentals of journalism including how to write news stories, features, editorials, sports stories and captions. Other topics to be covered include the elements of dynamic journalism, photography, advertising, essentials of layout, design, style and typography. Students will also be given an opportunity to examine the roles of radio, TV and film through changing times and produce original work relating to their special fields of interest.
*Students successfully completing Journalism will receive one high school elective credit, but the course grades will be excluded from the student’s high school grade point average (GPA)