Making a Newspaper – Grades 7-12 – Full Year 2021-2022 – 30 Weeks

This class will be centered around making a school newspaper. Students will learn elements of graphic design, journalism, creating writing, & photography, as well as how to work as a team to make a large project and how to organize big projects.

Class time will be set up like team meetings, where we’ll discuss, as a team, what we want our final project to look like, how we think we should get there, and what each individual is working on. We also will spend class time working on our respective projects and helping others with theirs. Each student will be assigned a different part of the newspaper to work on based on their particular talents and interests.

The end goal of our class is to produce an edition of the newspaper each semester that includes things like:

• articles about Open Tent Academy or Open Tent Academy students
• opinion pieces written by newspaper students
• art and creative writing submissions from Open Tent Academy students
• fun things like reviews for new movies and books
• pages for games like crosswords and riddles