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TITLE
Yearbook
TEXTBOOK
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DESCRIPTION
Yearbook is an elective course for tenth through twelfth grade students. It
meets five days a week for 44 minutes per session. Yearbook includes all aspects
of producing the yearly annual. Students work on picking a theme, designing the
book, establishing and meeting deadlines, setting up computers and computer
programs, writing copy, captions, and headlines, taking, selecting and
developing pictures, working with the publisher, planning and executing a sales
campaign and accounting for yearbook monies.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Students will produce a history of the school year in a bound book form.
2. Students will pick a theme.
3. Students will design cover, end sheets, and internal pages.
4. Students will use publisher’s computer program.
5. Students will use graphic design.
6. Students will write copy, captions, and headlines for annual divisions and
pages.
7. Students will take, select and develop pictures for the annual pages.
8. Students will plan and execute sales campaign for the annual for the year.
WRITING ACTIVITIES
1. Students will use journalistic and feature style of writing.
2. Students will use caption-writing skills.
3. Students will use headline-writing skills.
4. Students will use Standard English usage.
5. Students will use correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
