Description: This music course provides the opportunity for students who demonstrate good technical and improvisational talent to play music in a jazz/popular ensemble. Easy to low intermediate level standard and original jazz and popular literature is introduced. Activities include the study of scales and chords, and various approaches are used to instill improvisational techniques. Students participate in field trips, in-house performances, and public performances. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: Concert bands typically include instruments such as flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, saxophones, trumpets, French horns, trombones, euphoniums, tubas, and various percussion instruments such as snare drums, bass drums, cymbals, and timpani. The exact instrumentation may vary depending on the specific piece of music performed and the conductor's preferences. Concert bands perform a wide range of music, including classical, contemporary, jazz, marches, Broadway tunes, and original compositions written specifically for concert bands. The repertoire often includes arrangements of orchestral pieces and compositions specifically written for wind ensembles. Concert bands utilize a variety of musical techniques, including dynamics (volume), articulation (how notes are played), phrasing (how musical phrases are shaped), and balance (ensuring that all instruments are heard clearly). Members of the ensemble must also be proficient in sight-reading, ensemble playing, and musical interpretation.

Description: Music theory is for students that wish to enhance their music reading and/or playing skills..  Music theory is an advanced study of music that encompasses not just the sounds but also the fundamental language of music. You learn key signatures and chord progressions, among other music notation concepts, and music history to help bring that theory into practice. Students should have a basic understanding of music concepts prior to taking this class.

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Description: This Drama course involves simulated mass communications writing experiences such as writing for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, public relations, and advertising. Students will engage with experts from the communications community will conduct seminars and design projects that will engage students in writing activities.

Description: This music course is designed to introduce a group students to basic music fundamentals and history through piano skill development. Students learn familiarization with the keyboard, left and right hand coordination, note reading skills, scales, basic piano literature, and the history of music through the piano. This course covers the skills in first semester of UF8.

Description: This music course focuses primarily on show music and jazz with movement. The course establishes a choral performing ensemble that may sing music in any style, but usually the first year includes basic training in choral singing and movement. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honor Ensembles, or DCPS Performing Arts Festival.

Description: This Drama course traces contemporary drama's remarkable history of experiments with new and powerful techniques of dramatizing and analyzing human behavior. Students will place particular emphasis on groundbreaking works from provocative contemporary playwrights. Students will be required to evaluate their own work and the work of others and to read and discuss five plays. Students will further participate in lectures and discussion on craft issues including voice, structure, format, submission techniques, and the play development process.

Description: This music course teaches fundamentals of band technique to students with limited formal playing experience, or to students learning a secondary performance instrument. Emphasis is on training in instrumental technique, reading music symbols, rhythm, intonation, dynamics, interpretation, articulation, ensemble playing, and aural cognition. Easy level music literature is used. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course provides the student with ensemble opportunities and skill development on orchestral instruments through the development of orchestral repertoire. Skills developed include listening skills, appropriate bowing techniques, interpreting the gestures of a conductor, tuning, balance, and development of standard orchestral literature. The course focuses on repertoire expansion and involves the use of easy level 1 and 2 music.Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course is designed to introduce new skills and provide the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and help the student develop concert band music repertoire at the intermediate level. This music course is designed to introduce new skills and provide the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and help the student develop concert band music repertoire at the intermediate level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This is the first course in the Technical Theater career pathway. This sequence of courses prepares students for a career in the technical theater industry. Students are introduced to the process by which scenery, lighting, and audio are planned, coordinated, and built to support the playwright's and director's visions and concepts. Students will create scenic design models.

Description: This film course introduces film as a literary art from. Students will discuss as well as read and write about film background, film techniques, and film creators using literary analysis and critical thinking skills.

Description: This is the second course in the Technical Theater career pathway. This sequence of courses prepares students for a career in the technical theater industry. Students will expand their general understanding of basic stagecraft and practices.

Description: This music course is designed to introduce new skills and provide the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and help the student develop concert band music repertoire at the intermediate to proficient level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course introduces new skills and refines those learned in Concert Band I, II, and III. Students are provided with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and develop concert band repertoire at the proficient to advanced level. Students may perform during coThis music course introduces new skills and refines those learned in Concert Band I, II, and III. Students are provided with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and develop concert band repertoire at the proficient to advanced level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course introduces new skills and provides the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and develops orchestral music repertoire at the easy to intermediate level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course introduces new skills and provides the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and develops orchestral music repertoire at the proficient level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course introduces new skills and provides the student with ensemble techniques and listening skills, and develops orchestral music repertoire at the advanced level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course provides progression of the jazz experience in the exploration of standard and original jazz and popular literature. Students continue to enrich skills through increasing study of scales, arpeggios, chords, chord progressions, and motifs. A variety of methods and practices are used to instill and enhance improvisation, technique, and ensemble passages. Students participate in field trips, in-house performances, and public performances. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course provides the opportunity for students to perform standard and original jazz and popular literature. Students reinforce and enhance skills and techniques learned in the first two courses. Repertoire is increased, and a variety of jazz styles suitable for stage band are performed, including originals by Ellington, Kenton, Oliver, and Nelson. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course reinforces and refines techniques and skills learned previously. The focus remains on modeling, interpreting, and expressing the music and styles of the great jazz artists. In performing and studying that literature, students begin to develop their own characteristic style of playing. Students strengthen technical skills, improve musicianship, and expand repertoire. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honors Ensemble, and the DCPS Performing Arts Festival in the Spring.

Description: This music course provides the choral performing ensemble the opportunity to sing music in any style, but usually focuses on show music and jazz with movement. The second year includes vocal music and dance training at a more advanced level. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honor Ensembles, or DCPS Performing Arts Festival.

Description: This music course affords the choral performing ensemble the opportunity to sing music in any style, but usually focuses on show music and jazz with movement. Year three includes more advanced studies of vocal music and dance with solo opportunities. Students may participate in school concerts, DCPS Honor Ensembles, or DCPS Performing Arts Festival.

Description: This music course teaches the choral performing ensemble to sing music in any style, but usually focuses on show music and jazz with movement. This music course teaches the choral performing ensemble to sing music in any style, but usually focuses on show music and jazz with movement. Year four includes the most advanced study with solo opportunities. Students may participate in the adjudicated city-wide choral festival.