Classes
Modern Media is the study of newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film, computer technologies, and the Internet. The course includes analyzing and producing multi-media presentations. Listening, speaking, viewing, reading, writing, and computer skills will be developed through the utilization of the various forms of media. Students will create a media portfolio containing culminating projects, one of which will be included in the district writing portfolio.
Students will read and study novels, short stories, plays, essays, mythology, and nonfiction pieces in a multicultural survey of literature. Activities will focus on analysis through writing, listening, and speaking. Achievement of course performance will be assessed through discussions, tests, papers, and projects. Students will choose one piece of writing completed in this course for inclusion in their district writing portfolio that began in Writing I.
