Yearbook

Today you will be looking through a yearbook from another school. Our next big project will be learning how to create a "spread" for yearbook. I will also be talking about the courses beyond this class for those of you who are planning to stick with journalism next year as we ready for choice sheets.

When you get your book, please start from the beginning of the book are work your way page by page to the end.

As you are going, on your blog in a post called Yearbook Introduction, please list any elements you think that a good yearbook has in it. By this I mean, if I were to gather 25 yearbooks from around the country, what elements of the your book should I see in all 25 books. Here is one example: every yearbook should have the school name on the cover somewhere.

This doesn't have to be an exhaustive list, meaning I don't expect you to get all of them, someone else in class will come up with the ones you miss.

So how about this - find 25 things you think should be in every yearbook.

Then, answer the following questions:

1. What is the title of your book?
2. What school is it from?
3. What "thematic elements" do you see in your book? This means what elements are evident from beginning to end of the book
4. How many sections are in your book? This could be tough to figure out, but do your best
5. What is your favorite "spread"? A spread is 2 pages about the same topic
6. Is there an Index in your book?
7. Are there photos of groups of people, like clubs and organizations?
8. Is there a table of contents?
9. How many people go to the school whose book you have?
10. What state is your book from?

Next class we will go over the book in more detail and begin talking about how to create a spread.