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ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS

ELECTIVE COURSES

21st Century Media: Seeing the World in the Digital Age Art of Film
Course Number: 037500 Course Number: 036900
Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: None
Grade Level: 9-12 Grade Level: 9-12
Fulfills Graduation Requirement for: Elective Fulfills Graduation Requirement for: Elective, Fine Arts
Course Description: Students will get to encounter a variety Course Description: Art of Film students go beyond writing film
of media--from the classic print, to the newest apps and scripts; they transform their scripts into movies. In their first film
platforms. All the while, students will analyze and learn the project, students learn to practice “show, don’t tell” within both
role these media play in our world, and examine how these their scripts and their movies. In their second film project,
forms are currently being used in current events. students learn to plant subtext (hidden intentions) beneath their
characters’ words within both their scripts and their movies. In
African American Literature both projects, students aim to maximize their audience’s
Course Number: 035700 emotional experiences by writing conflict-based scripts.
Throughout the course, students are encouraged to enter local
Prerequisite: None and national film competitions. At the end of the course, students
Grade Level: 9-12 invite their families and friends to their film premieres on Movie
Fulfills Graduation Requirement for: Elective Night. Art of Film students “learn by doing”—and have fun doing
Course Description: The African American experience in it. If you are ready to put your creative talents to the test within
this unique writing/filmmaking experience, Art of Film is for you.
America has been a trial of the human spirit. Brought here
in chains as slaves, forced to work for generations in the
fields of the South, subject to the racism and oppression of Creative Writing
an openly racist society, ignored for decades in their Course Number: 037200
freedom, segregated from opportunity for most of this
century, African Americans have endured, adapted and Prerequisite: None
experienced the gamut of human emotion and travail. We Fulfills graduation requirement for: Elective
will trace this experience through the stories, thoughts and Grade Level: 9-12
letters of their greatest writers. Course Description: In a workshop setting, you will have
the opportunity to work independently or with others to
write poetry and prose. You will learn from prewriting to
revision, to create polished writing for a public audience.

The Graphic Novel
Course Number: 037400
Prerequisite: None
Fulfills graduation requirement for: Elective

Grade Level: 9-12
Course Description: The Graphic Novel is a course designed
for both long time readers of graphic novels/comics and
those who are new to the medium. Students in the class will
learn about the elements of comic style and read a variety of
shorter and longer graphic texts in many different genres.
Students will study the history of the medium, analyze the
assigned texts, create a graphic story, and enjoy the
marvelous blend of pictures and text.

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