2021-22 High School Course Selection Guide
Creative Workshop 1 .5 credit/semester course Neutrally Weighted Creative Workshop 1 provides student writers with opportunities to explore the foundations of good writing in both fiction and nonfiction. Students will develop their own unique style and take creative risks in a supportive workshop environment. Students and their teacher discuss, model, and practice various genres. The class will publish an anthology of student writing, and students are encouraged to find online publications venues.
Creative Workshop 2 .5 credit/semester course Neutrally Weighted This self-directed course is for motivated student writers who frequently write on their own or are considering writing in their college/career plans. Students develop a contract with the teacher to individualize their writing goals. They can explore and research various genres of fiction and nonfiction, and investigate Internet-based writing forums, contests, and publications. Students will be encouraged to promote their own writing through blogging, publishing, and oral presentation.
Prerequisite: Creative Workshop 1 English Electives (Reading)
Content Area Literacy (9) 1 credit
In this course, participants will learn the cognitive and reflective processes that successful, independent readers use to comprehend text. They will become more competent readers and will improve their skills with the more challenging content texts they encounter at the high school level.
Students will be selected into this course based on need as determined by multiple data.
English Electives (Video)
Broadcast Journalism & Social Media Production Honors I (9, 10, 11, 12) 1 credit This course will develop the effective use of spoken and written communication for different media purposes and contexts. Students will demonstrate
- course offered in WC Cyber Program
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proficiency by creating multimedia products for our social media-centric culture. Students will produce a daily broadcast for school, and produce content for a school appropriate social media channel. Students will explore many topics such as: newsroom production, script writing, journalism ethics, news and social media judgment, interview, studio and remote shooting, production staging, directing, and editing. Students will be expected to work in front and/or behind the camera for this class, and will also demonstrate technical proficiency in the use of modern media production tools.
Video Production 1 (9, 10, 11, 12) .5 credit/semester course
Neutrally Weighted
This course provides students the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of video production using current industry standard equipment and software. Skills taught will include camera operation, audio recording, video editing, and digital age team collaboration and interpersonal skills. These skills are required and benefit students in high school and in all post-secondary settings. Students will create personal videos for a portfolio including -- but not limited to -- a personal narrative, storytelling, and a documentary.
Video Production 2 Honors (10, 11, 12) 1 credit
Students become content creators in narrative
genres and documentary genres. Storytelling technique is emphasized in all projects as students continue to refine their use of equipment and editing techniques with increasing sophistication towards professionalization to match current industry practices. Emphasis is placed on collaboration to complete projects by leveraging the skills of the collective production team. Students will learn the different job roles of writer, producer, director, cinematographer, audio specialist, gaffer, and editor with successive projects, so that each student may start to articulate his/her individual film making voice.
Prerequisite: Video Production and permission of instructor.
Video Production 3 Honors (11, 12) 1 credit
Individual expression is explored and encouraged in this year of study. Students will create a large- scale individual professional quality project or
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