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 English I Honors

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Course Description:  This one semester writing course focuses on adapting writing styles to communicate information to an audience. 

Objectives

Define, locate, and create straight news stories, feature stories,  sports stories, and editorials

Construct news stories using the inverted pyramid

Employ the techniques of interviewing

Edit and proofread

Define libel and know the student's responsibilities in publishing stories

Grades: 

 Because meeting deadlines is integral to good journalism, all late work will be docked points.  If absent, assignments are due upon your return.

Grades are kept on a point system.  The number of points accrued by a student at the end of the semester will be divided by the number of possible points.

All rules concerning dress code, attendance, behavior and effort are in effect. Read the handbook  

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