Norco High – Intermediate Journalism 2a-2b

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

This elective course, the prerequisite for Advanced Journalism, is open to high school students with superior writing skills who wish to demonstrate their ability to produce the campus newspaper. This course is a writing oriented class with emphasis on precise, concrete, accurate and factual prose. The focus will re reporting information about and for the school community. Students demonstrate their skills in the art of newspaper writing and production: news, sports, feature, editorial, and review writing; proof reading, editing, reporting, interviewing, typing in word processing and layout software, and layout design. Students also demonstrate their ability to write well under pressure, gather information independently and organize it cooperatively, and work effectively with their peers. Through extensive rewriting, students exhibit mastery in all of these skills. This course will also include the mechanics (ad layouts, cartooning, photography, graphics) of newspaper and magazine production.