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HIGH SCHOOL ELECTIVES
Chapel Team
Chapel Team is designed to provide a discipleship opportunity for the student leader in his/her discovery of the connection between spiritual intimacy and interpersonal influence. The student leader will explore the reality of personal spiritual formation and its connection to relational influence. The program will be a hybrid of academic consideration and practical application as the students implement various expressions of ministerial service/leadership. Prerequisites: None. Students must apply to be accepted into this course. Textbook: When Helping Hurts, Corbett & Finkert
*Creative Writing
This course is designed to introduce students to four primary genres of creative writing: fiction, creative nonfiction, playwriting, and poetry. Students will learn key terminology that will help them understand, analyze, and discuss these genres in a workshop setting. Students will write and contribute original pieces of writing to workshop, a collaborative and evaluative discussion about the writer’s craft, and look to a variety of published writers as guides for incorporating different new techniques into their own work. Textbook: Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, Burroway *Dual enrollment
*Film: Storytelling and Analysis
This course is designed to study narrative communication across multiple mediums to better understand how stories shape identities, communities, and cultures. Students will explore classical story principles, such as plot, narration, characterization, and audience, as well as innovative and transgressive narrative strategies, and apply their understanding in the creation of their own original stories. Additionally, it will introduce principles, theories, and methods of cinematic communication and film analysis and explore related audio/visual texts. Students become critical consumers of media as they learn how cinematic form is used to construct meaning and understand how people from diverse cultures might interpret and process media in distinct ways. *Dual enrollment
Foundations of Sports Medicine
This course provides high school students with a general overview of athletic training, sports medicine, and its history. It includes introductory information about the AT’s scope of practice: injury prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, emergency injury management and administrative functions. This course is intended to help students gain an understanding of sports medicine, various 2022-2023 MS/HS Course Description Book Revised 06/2022
