Only semester change of the whole year: adios Living Skills, hello Beginning Journalism. I started the day more than content knowing that I wouldn’t be talking about my character and the wellness spectrum during 3rd period, but rather in a journalism classroom that would be the first stepping stone of my high school journalism career. Best part is that there are only 19 students in the class, including myself, which is probably a Paly record. (Private school kids are now thinking: What?!?! 19?!?! How do you learn in that environment??) Hopefully that will ensure achieving something greater as a result of a more unified, expressive classroom.
Our teacher asked us to share our name and why we decided to join Beginning Journalism. “I want to join the Campanile”, “I want to learn about all the publications”, and “I just enjoy writing” were the most common responses. Me, being my unique self, joined the bandwagon and said, “I like to write”. I pondered saying “Because my mom’s a journalist and I want to learn more about how she does her work” or “I’ve read the newspaper every day since 3rd grade”, but alas no, I got caught up in the moment.
Hopefully by the end of the semester, or at least by the end of high school, I’ll have an answer to that question and figure out why I joined Beginning Journalism on January 23rd, 2012. Truthfully, I’m apprehensive about not only the workload in the class, but also about the possibility that I end up hating journalism and discover that what I don’t enjoy thought I would… but hopefully that won’t happen.
My own little self-assigned homework for the class is to further my journalism through this blog and improve it over the course of the semester. Time to see what journalism is really about.
American Jewish Teen 