Worth the Challenge

December 17, 2009 • Emma Morones  
Filed under Classes, Journalism

Fourteen years ago, Desert Vista published their first addition of the commonly known newspaper, “The View.”
Today, Mrs. Michelle Coro, Desert Vista’s personal production team leader, has a class of hard working journalism students, and an empty word document.  The journalism class shortly turned into a team that kept Desert Vista students and staff in focus with the “411” around school. 

What exactly happens inside the classroom of  “The View?” Along with keeping up with a monthly newspaper, for the first year students post stories on an online news website (www.dvthundermedia.com,) and write weekly summaries on chapters of the book “The Radical Write.” Journalism is a challenging class that gives students who want to pursue careers as writers a realistic start.
Student Christina Sirois explains the class as “not a class to take for an easy A.” At the beginning of each year Coro compares her classes to a ‘roller coaster’.  “Working on a news paper is not for everyone. There is a certain level of maturity and self-motivation that has to be inherent in a staffer. This is not the type of class that you get an assignment, review it, and take a quiz. It’s much more like a producing team,” explains Coro.  
Students write about news, sports, opinions and features that our related to Desert Vista.

There are many goals that Coro and her student staff members strive to achieve on a daily basis. Ayla Mitchell says, “ one of my main goals for this class is to meet all my deadlines on time.”  To get a good grade in this class you have to maintain stable responsibility and late work is not accepted.

“My vision is to have a full-scale media program. I want to help make journalists of tomorrow who are confident in writing, taking photos, shooting video, working with the web, designing, producing audio and more,” describes Coro. Taking this class teaches students more than how to write a good story. Students learn how to work as a team, speak in a proper interview, and use high tech cameras and much more.
This is definitely a challenging class that is worth the ride.

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