This is a prepatory class for any future higher-level courses. Taken on the freshman level this would replace Freshman English. This class is recommended for those students who have demonstrated strengths in reading and writing in previous English courses or who have been recommended by a junior high English instructor. The purpose of this course is to publish the yearbook. In doing so, the student will learn skills in journalism, yearbook design, yearbook themes, art design on the computer, photography, picture developing and time management in meeting deadlines.
Enrollment is by approval only.
The intent of the AP program is to provide the best possible learning situation for the student. It will present the student with academic challenge. The course will train students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of periods, disciplines, and rhetorical contests. It will give students the practice and helpful criticism necessary to make them flexible writers. The writing assignments will contribute to the aim of making students mature writers.