This course offers students the opportunity to become more proficient in reading and study skills. The course emphasizes the development of vocabulary, reading comprehension, interpretive and critical reading skills. The course may be taken a second time for credit with the approval of the teacher. Clarity, accurate spelling colorful vocabulary, and ethical uses of data and sources will be stressed. Students will learn to visualize photographs, typography and artwork in the context of page layout to produce a well-designed newspaper.
Assignments are both teacher and student generated.
This course focuses on the nature and effects of verbal communication. Students will use these elements in informative and persuasive speaking in the traditional speaker-audience relationship. Credit for this course will not apply to Math or English graduation requirements, nor will it be a part of a student's grade point average.