Yearbook

Subject: Yearbook:
Grade: 12 (Maximum Class Size 10)
Length of Course: First and Second Semester
Prerequisite: Seniors Only, Desk Top Publishing (Experience Desired), May Have to Apply to Enter Class.

INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES:

1) To help students develop journalism writing skills.
2) To develop the students’ ability to think and write clearly.
3) To provide students with experiences in interviewing, researching, and writing stories.
4) To understand responsible journalism and ethics.
5) To provide understanding of types of news and how each type is written.
6) To help the students revise and edit their writing.
7) To help students learn about layout and design of the Hinton Times and the yearbook.
8) To teach students the qualities of a good photograph.
9) To develop the students’ ability to take good photographs.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Yearbook is designed to help students to search for news, to develop a story, and to produce final copy for the yearbook and the Hinton Times. Students learn to interview, research, and write several types of stories in correct journalistic style and form. Revision and editing are stressed with use of the stylebook. Students produce a yearbook and contribute to the Hinton Times.

WHAT STUDENTS ARE EXPECTED TO DO:

1) To write weekly articles and copy for both publications.
2) To read the Sioux City Journal and Hinton Times newspapers and learn to critique the writing done in both publications
3) To produce a comprehensive K-12 yearbook.

EVALUATION:

Production of the yearbook pages, news articles, photography, quizzes