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Upper School Arts
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Drama
Meridian’s award-winning drama department provides exciting and unique theatrical opportunities for its students.
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Utah Shakespearean Festival High School Competition
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Middle and Upper School students start off the fall preparing for the Shakespeare competition at SUU in Cedar City, Utah. Students prepare monologues and duo/trios in addition to participating in ensemble performances. Meridian has won the sweepstakes award and many other awards every year since they began competing in 2003.
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Extreme Theater
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Extreme Theater is a 24-hour intensive with students writing, rehearsing, and performing five original one-act plays. The entire event is student created, written, directed, and performed. Many student’s work from this event has gone on to win state and national writing awards.
Click here to see footage of 2007 Extreme Theater
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Choir
Choir students gain advanced musical knowledge through a study of theory and choral performance. Choir students perform at Grandparents Day, Vespers, Spring Gala, the spring musical, and graduation.
View 2007 Christmas Choir Concert “Sing Noel” and “Betelehemu”
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Art
 Students taking this class will learn the fundamentals of drawing, taking measurements, still life, and portrait drawing, use of different mediums and techniques, and introduction to drafting and design.
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Computer and Life Skills
This course is an awareness-raising, skill-developing, hands-on experience to prepare students to be contributing participants in a service-oriented and knowledge-based economy. Computer Skills: graphic style and design, information architecture, multimedia creation and production, blogging, podcasting, web programming, desktop publishing, research using the Internet, Internet advertising, and multimedia literacy. Life Skills: development of good habits, comprehensive reading, the art of discussion, crucial conversations, negotiation, conflict resolution, journaling, democracy, project management, time enhancement, organizational effectiveness, work/life balance, individual strengths identification and development, presenting in organizational settings, business ethics, social entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability.
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Yearbook
 Goals for the Yearbook Team are to produce a quality digital publication that meets both design and publication specification deadlines. Workflow management is the primary key to success in this course. Planning is the primary goal of the first phase of yearbook production. This includes selecting digital tools, mastering book design terminology, choosing a unifying theme or concept, selecting typography, designing page layouts and visuals, determining the cover and working with copy treatments. All team members will become adept in all areas of publication production including design, writing, editing, deadline management and file management. These skills will not only contribute to the completion of an award-winning book but will also provide invaluable life skills. Team members will learn how to identify and create a quality photo in terms of traditional photo standards and content. This process is intended to produce a top notch memory book of the school year, but the additional benefits are the development of exception writing, editing, art and design skills by the entire yearbook team.
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