Rio Norte Electives
Specialty Electives for the 2024-25 School Year
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Course Description: is the major instrumental ensemble at Rio Norte and is a one year commitment. This group represents the school at all major school functions including the open house, back to school night, 6th Grade Jamboree, Valencia Showcase and the Turkey Bowl game. The ensemble also joins the Valencia High Marching Band to play for a VHS football game. This ensemble performs at both local and national music festivals, including the Disneyland Music Festival, with an overnight stay at the Disney hotels. The Advanced band has two major performances. One in the Fall and the other in the Spring. The concert band, which plays at all major events for the school, performs 4-8- concerts a year on and around the campus of Rio Norte. In the past, the concert band has played at Valencia High school football games; Barnes and Noble Bookstore; local schools; Festivals with Music in the Parks, Disneyland Resort; Southern California Student Band Orchestra Association festivals; as well as winter, spring and fall concerts. Due to the many extra-curricular activities this ensemble does, each student is expected to keep a minimum GPA of 2.2 Auditions consist of: |
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Instructor: Mr. Gilbert
[email protected] Course Description: is one year commitment to vocal ensemble performance. Members of the concert choir develop skills in vocal performance. Students are introduced to musical notation and basic vocal techniques. The concert choir performs various styles of choral literature for school concerts, community programs, and local choral festivals. Requirements include exemplary citizenship and a positive attitude. An audition is required for this ensemble. Audition Information: The concert choir, which performs at all major events for the school, performs 4-8 concerts a year on and around the campus of Rio Norte. |
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Instructor: Mr. Owston
Auditions:
Open Call April 23,2024 3 pm to 6 pm in the MPR
Please prepare ONE 1-2 minute monologue or song, For questions please contact Mr. Owston "Mr. O" at [email protected] Callbacks: We'll contact you
Course Description: Production Drama is a year long elective for students with a more advanced skill level who want to perform in front of an audience. Students work together to produce the Fall and Spring productions. This class focuses on exploring a range of acting skills, and improving rehearsal discipline. Production Drama also focuses on technical theatre aspects such as lighting design, sound design, marketing and more. We often run sessions after school and do performances on evenings and weekends. If you love to perform in front of an audience, and want to be part of a big Theater Family then make sure you sign up for an audition! |
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Deadline: Friday, 4/12/24 Course Description: Rio Norte Advanced Video Production brings our daily morning show, Rio TV, to over 1,400 students and staff on YouTube each day. Producing a daily broadcast is a lot of fun, but it's also hard work. If you visit riotv.org, you'll see all the fun things that happen in front of the camera, but there is so much more that happens behind the scenes--script writing, filming, graphics, editing, organization, communication, leadership, and teamwork. Students will work during class time, and sometimes at brunch, lunch, and after school creating our show as we pursue our four-point goal to INFORM, ENGAGE, INCLUDE, and INSPIRE. Rio TV is looking for students who are mature, hard-working, and who can work well together as a team. |
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This is a high school course and will be on the high school transcript.  8th graders only
Application Course Description: This introductory course in Spanish is designed for those who are preparing for college entrance or who want to lay the groundwork for extensive study of Spanish. The language's basic grammatical structure and vocabulary are taught through practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Successful completion of Spanish 1A with a grade of “C” or better at the semester is recommended to continue with Spanish 1B. |
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Deadline: Friday, 4/12/24 Course Description: Students enrolled in Yearbook are responsible for preserving memories that will last a lifetime. Students will learn and practice photography, writing, layout, design, and production skills as they produce the yearbook. Students will spend much of their class time learning new skills and collaborating with other yearbook team members and are expected to spend a great deal of time outside the classroom (before school, brunch, lunch, after school, and on weekends) taking photos at school events and then working on assigned pages. |
Instructor: Mr. Ippolito
Instructor: Ms. Bretthauer
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BEGINNING ART  Instructor: Ms. James (Art James)
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BEGINNING BAND  Instructor: Mr. GilbertCourse Description: The beginning band is the first step into a larger musical world. In this class, you learn how to read music and play an instrument of the wind band. These include, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, baritone, Tuba and Percussion. The next step from the beginning band is the Advanced band. |
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BEGINNING CHOIR  Instructor: Mr. GilbertCourse Description: This is a one semester vocal ensemble experience. Members of the chorus develop skills in vocal performance. Students are introduced to musical notation and basic vocal techniques. The chorus performs various styles of choral literature for school concerts. Requirements include exemplary citizenship and a positive attitude. Prior singing experience is recommended but not required. |
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BEGINNING DRAMA  Instructor: Mr. Owston
Course Description: Beginning Drama is a semester-long elective that develops confidence and creativity using theatre as tool. We learn and develop performance skills through fun, practical activities and build our confidence towards performing in front of an audience. This is the class for you if you like working in groups, learning through practical activities and games, and want to build your confidence and share your creativity. |
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CTE-EXPLORING PATHWAYS A  Instructor: Mrs. Welch Course Description: Welcome to Exploring Pathways! CTE Exploring Pathways is a semester junior high CTE exploratory course designed to expose students to the numerous career pathway opportunities available in high school and beyond while developing the crucial readiness skills needed to achieve their goals. The curriculum consistently addresses the 12 CTE Standards for Career Ready Practice and develops curiosity and collaboration as students develop plans for high school and beyond. Through research and experiential learning opportunities, students investigate CTE pathways and careers that interest them as they become aware of their strengths and aptitudes. Students will make connections between the choices they make today and their expectations for the future. Students practice strategic thinking skills through cross-sector problem-solving challenges and work through the stages of design thinking. At the end of the course, students are prepared to take introductory or concentrator level courses in their best-fit pathway. In this course students will operate as an effective member of a team in the following areas:
*Computer Aided Drafting & Design (CADD) *Computer Graphics & Game Development *Criminalistics *Design & Marketing *Emergency & Fire Management Services *Emergency Medical Technician *Flight & Drone Technology *Hospitality & Tourism Management *Intro to Child Development *Intro to Computer Science *Intro to Health Science Careers *Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness *Nursing *Occupational Health & Safety - Construction *Sports Medicine *Veterinary Medicine *Video Production |
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 Instructor: Ms. Mandel Course Description: CTE Intro Media/Photo is a junior high school CTE introductory course that introduces skills used in image capturing and editing. Students explore different aspects of the media and entertainment industry and career opportunities. Students learn the basics of manual control of a DSLR camera, lighting, image manipulation, and image editing. While this class is not a prerequisite, it prepares students for CTE Media/Photo IA/B, the CTE Graphic Design Pathway high school concentrator course.
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CULINARY  Instructor: Ms. PrietoCourse Description: Culinary Arts is a semester long class that provides the fundamentals for kitchen safety, food production, culinary terms, knife skills and nutrition. Students will follow a variety of recipes in the kitchens to broaden their knowledge and understand the culinary pathway. We focus on kitchen management, accurate measurements, industry equipment, teamwork and food creativity. Students will achieve kitchen confidence and the ability to independently execute basic recipes with great success. |
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JOURNALISM
 Instructor: Ms. DawsonCourse Description: Students will learn the basic principles of print and online journalism. Students will learn investigative skills, responsible reporting, and journalistic writing techniques as they read, respond to, and write their own news and feature articles. Students will create their own articles for the school website, create twitter updates, and a published magazine.
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PEER TUTORING
 Instructor: Special Education Teachers
Course Description: This is an elective that allows you to work with special needs students. Some personality traits that are important for you to have include patience, respect, tolerance, leadership, empathy, and a desire to make a difference in the life of a special child. This elective will introduce you to working one on one with some of our most awesome and fragile students that rely on and look up to people like you. |
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TECHNOLOGY FUNDAMENTALS  Instructor: Ms. GrandboisCourse Description: This 10 week course is designed to provide students with a functional keyboarding skill emphasizing personal and occupational goals along with computer literacy. The first part of the course will focus primarily on learning the alphabetic keys and the second part of the course will focus primarily on computer literacy. Computer literacy will include the introductory concepts of word processing, spreadsheets, power point presentations, internet research, HTML (web design), email and scanning. |
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TEEN LEADERSHIP  Instructor: Multiple teachersCourse Description: Teen Leadership will focus on topics like personal leadership, written communication skills, public speaking, interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, self-confidence, personal responsibility, branding, digital citizenship, how to communicate with adults, and much more! Coursework will also be based on the Capturing Kids’ Hearts program Lead Worthy. |