Tech Prep material will continue to be used. This course is designed to train students to become skilled readers of prose written in a variety of historical periods, academic disciplines, and rhetorical contexts. The course also provides students an opportunity to become flexible writers capable of writing a variety of papers for various purposes. Students should come into the course with a good command of standard English grammar so that the writing assignments can contribute to making them more mature writers. The course emphasizes expository analytical, and argumentative essays.
Yearbook journalism is for college-bound students.
Students who do not plan to attend college may enroll if they have above-average writing and typing skills and are willing to accept responsibility for meeting deadlines. Students will apply these skills during the production of the school yearbook. This course is for all students involved in Heritage Hills Morning Show. The production crew, producers and directors, technicians, and show personalities will receive credit for their participation in the morning show through this course. Emphasis will be on communication skills, news reporting skills, and video production skills.