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  • Electives – English Language Arts
Acting Techniques (1124)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamentals of theatre.
  • Develop improvisation, characterization, and performance skills.
  • Create original scripts with characters, conflicts, and resolutions.
  • Respond critically to classmates' performances.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Acting Techniques - Advanced (1125)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Acting Techniques

  • Enhance skills of creativity, performance, and critical response that were introduced in Acting Techniques.
  • Discuss, analyze, and demonstrate the techniques of an actor.
  • Analyze play scripts and characters.
  • Develop specific skills that will prepare them for postsecondary theatre opportunities.
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
AP Research S1/S2 (8834, 8835)

Credit: 0.5 Language Art
Recommended: AP Seminar

Build on what you learned in AP Seminar to deeply explore an academic topic, problem, or issue of individual interest. Through this exploration, you will design, plan, and conduct a year-long research based investigation to address a research question which would culminate with a research paper and oral defense.

  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Creative Writing (1105)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

Grades 11, 12 at Berthoud High School
Grades 10, 11, 12 at Mountain View High School

  • Write original prose and/or poetry.
  • Design one or more creative writing projects.
  • Write, revise, and participate in peer review workshops to improve writing.
  • Understand and employ various creative writing techniques such as plot construction, character development, point of view, etc.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Journalism 2 (1118,1119)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Application and interview, Journalism 1, Basic Photography, and Commercial Art

  • Understand a variety of issues related to publishing a newspaper.
  • Collect information systematically for responsible coverage.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the publication of an open forum student newspaper.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Theatre Production (8612)

Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective

study facets of behind-the-scenes theatrical productions including: theatre jobs/roles, directing/producing, production concepts, script analysis, sound/light, and sets

  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Write Life (1144,1145)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective

  • Work as a community of writers in a project-based learning model.
  • Experiment with a variety of techniques in several writing genres.
  • Contribute to various publications and writing contests.
  • Read and critique the work of established authors.
  • Read and critique the work of their peers.
  • Produce the school’s literary magazine.
  • Practice and use advanced creative writing skills, editorial skills, and positive work habits in this writing-intensive course.
  • Thompson Valley High School
  • Electives – English Language Arts
Yearbook (8608, 8609)

Credit: 1.0 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Instructor approval, application and interview

  • Publish the student yearbook.
  • Apply for the following positions: editor, section editor, page designer, reporter, advertiser, illustrator, photographer, and others.
  • Work outside the course period and the school day.
  • Learn computer operating systems and related software.
  • Berthoud High School
  • Loveland High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Thompson Valley High School