ComMedia Course Guidelines -- Spring 2006

CommunicationMedia® – Course Guidelines

ComMedia casts a critical eye at the workings of the media in our world. Much of the curriculum will be based on events of the past twenty-four hours, or events coming up in the immediate future. We will look at what the media covers (and doesn’t), but more particularly we will look at how the story was told.

STUDENTS WILL NEED FOR CLASS

• a “composition-style” notebook for daily, in-class notes.
• a loose-leaf notebook, binder, or folder for archiving class handouts.
• out-of-class access to electronic media sources, particularly television and the internet

STUDENTS WILL BE EXPECTED TO

• take responsibility for a particular “Area of Media Specialty”, and follow it throughout the semester
• present to the class at least one story per week from your AMS
• actively participate in classroom discussions, both by speaking and listening
• read and respond to articles distributed by the teacher
• check in and comment at least once a week with the ComMedia Blog (http://thscommedia.blogspot.com/)

GRADES WILL BE TALLIED FROM

• assessments by the teacher of the in-class notebook
  
• assessment by the teacher of class participationgrades achieved on AMS reports
• grades achieved on reading assignments
• grades achieved on Final Examination

MR. MacARTHUR MAY BE CONTACTED AT

jmacarthur@tolland.k12.ct.us, or mrmac@operamail.com

(860) 870-6860 (ex. 173)