Welcome to Journalism!

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 Your words have power. Your words are your legacy. The words you share can change the world.

• Journalism is both a class and a club where students work together to create the school newspaper, The Kilt.
• We create both an on-line newspaper every two weeks and a paper issue at least 6 times a year.
• It is an entirely student lead class where you get to publish your writing, graphics, and photography once a month and you get to collaborate on how to express what really matters to you. 
• But as you see in t (Links to an external site.)his video (Links to an external site.), it is so much more than that! You will make great friends and memories to last a  lifetime.
• Have questions? Need anything? Reach out to me at amy.charles@rentonschools.us

Typical month's schedule for this class:

• Week 1: Reflect on previous issue and set goals/ Pitch stories/ Write stories/Interviews
• Week 2: Write stories/ Share stories with each other and edit
• Week 3: Round two edits/graphic designs/ page layouts if in print/ Work night
• Week 4: Publishing 
• Bonus Week 5: Mini projects that grow our journalistic talents and skills/ guest speakers/ middle school mentoring opportunities/ Fun team building activities

This year we have two new exciting developments: 

• A business team dedicated to ad sales and generating revenue
• Fun day Friday competitions
• A renewed relationship with The Renton Reporter to mentor us and publish our work
• An opportunity to mentor middle school students to grow their skills as student journalist