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Options Book - Brecksville-Broadview Heights City Schools

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Mass Media<br />

Course Number: 1031<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: juniors, seniors<br />

An overview of popular arts media—television, radio,<br />

films, advertising, comics, recording industry,<br />

book publishing, magazines—and their effects on the<br />

individual and society today is presented through discussion,<br />

film, reading assignments, and independent<br />

projects. Students will also work with video tape<br />

equipment.<br />

Prerequisite: None<br />

Public Speaking 1<br />

Course Number: 1011<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: All<br />

Various types of speeches are discussed and the student<br />

is given the opportunity weekly to develop, outline, and<br />

give speeches; stress on speaking before groups.<br />

Prerequisite: None<br />

Debate<br />

Course Number: 1012<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: All<br />

Debate and discussion forms and techniques will be<br />

studied. Students will build both affirmative and negative<br />

cases. Students will demonstrate their learning by<br />

actual discussions and formal debating.<br />

Prerequisite: Speech<br />

Public Speaking 2<br />

Course Number: 1017<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: All<br />

Continuation of Public Speaking 1; advanced discussion<br />

techniques, introduction to oral reading, oral<br />

interpretation, and radio-television speaking.<br />

Prerequisite: Public Speaking 1<br />

Creative Writing 1<br />

Course Number: 1032<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: juniors, seniors<br />

Self-expression and study of forms in poetry, drama,<br />

and the short story.<br />

Prerequisite: A grade of “C” minimum in previous<br />

English course.<br />

Creative Writing 2<br />

Course Number: 1033<br />

Course Length: semester<br />

Credits: .5<br />

Periods/Week: 5<br />

Fee: $ (Cost of paperbacks)<br />

Open To: juniors, seniors<br />

Designed for students who have a background of Creative<br />

Writing 1 and who have mastered various literary<br />

styles and genres. The student will read and write in<br />

an atmosphere where their work may be criticized and<br />

praised.<br />

Prerequisite: Creative Writing 1<br />

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