News Broadcast

Term: Year

Prerequisites: None

Credit: 1

Fee: None

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12

Students will organize, write, direct, film, edit and produce 5- to 8-minute news program aired daily. Students will present a program where listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience. They make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of the production. Students produce segments and gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively. They integrate information into the production while avoiding plagiarism and overreliance on any one source. Within the broadcast, students adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.