Sports Broadcasting Update

Good morning Roadrunners and welcome to week 14!

I can’t believe it’s NOVEMBER already! It’s as if we blinked and October was gone…

We get a bit of a reprieve from sports coverage next week as we are officially done with all home sporting events for the Fall.

The class dynamic makes it impossible for every student to be at every event. However, it frustrates me when I have no students sign up to work a sporting event (leaving me to film the games myself) and then I see students from the class at the games. I have also had students sign up to work games and either not show up or leave partway through. I don’t expect students to work every game, but as the class is “sports broadcasting” the students should be…broadcasting sports…

To offset this, we started going over the art of sportswriting, talking about feature stories, profiles, bios, game recap, and advance stories while also coving AP style and how that applies to broadcasting. Students were to decide on a sports feature topic and begin gathering research for their topics. We start working on these next week
*Please speak with your child about their topic; considering how fewer than half the class responded with their topics I feel they’re not taking the task seriously.*

As always if your student has late/missing assignments please encourage them to get them turned in. I am lenient with the late policy and as long as students turn in quality work it is graded accordingly. HOWEVER, I am not longer accepting work for the first eight weeks of school as we are past the 4 week deadline, week 9 is the latest students can turn late work in for.

*I know I’m a bit backlogged on my grading. I WILL have grades completely updated by Monday. Thank you for your patience!*

What’s going on with Mr. Dudek?
Absolutely nothing. Which is actually quite the relief this week.

As ALWAYS, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or concerns please feel free to reach out to me.

Have a great week Roadrunners,
~Mr. Dudek