The journalism class at Springville Jr. High School is an elective class for students who like to write. The journalism students write articles about junior high happenings and spotlight articles about members of the SJHS community.
During journalism the students choose a topic they want to write about that is going on at school. Once the journalism students choose their topic they brainstorm everything they already know about it and think of questions to ask a person who knows a lot about the topic. After the students write the first draft of their article, they have other journalism students peer review and peer edit it to give them ideas about how to improve. After journalism students make all the improvements to their article they email it to Ms. Miley who then emails the articles to the Springville Independent News. Students get extra credit when their articles are published in the Springville Independent News.
Emma Johnson, a journalism student at SJHS, said, “I took journalism because I wanted to feel more responsible and improve my social skills and also become a better writer. I thought it would be fun to try.” According to Clarissa Scott, she thinks that journalism is fun because you get to interview people and then write interesting articles that people will get to read.
Ms. Miley, the journalism teacher at SJHS said, “I hope journalism students learn a variety of skills, everything from learning to ask good questions to organizing their thoughts to writing clearly. I also hope that over the course of the semester they get better at interviewing and are more comfortable talking to both adults and students they don't know.”