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Yearbook/Journalism- Yearbook Probationary Staff Brainstorming Project ONE
BACKGROUND: You will be completing a project in which you are gathering stories, interviews and photographs regarding pages to be created in the yearbook. This material will be used on yearbook pages in the upcoming semester.
JOURNALISM LEARNING IN THIS LESSON: In this lesson, students learn how to collect and convey information about a school event or organization. By focusing on who, what, when, where, why, and how questions, students will learn to thoroughly analyze and report on important school events.
The 6 QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED BELOW: In all of the applicable assignments below, students MUST include the answers to the following questions regarding their event or person being recorded: WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? HOW?
STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST 10 OF THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES |
| HHS NEWS: A news story (of any sort) specifically related to HHS. Must write a story of at least 3 paragraphs. Story must include THE 6 QUESTIONS. |
COLORADO NEWS: A news story specifically related to Colorado. Must write a story of at least 3 paragraphs. Story must include THE 6 QUESTIONS. |
NATIONAL/WORLD NEWS: A news story specifically related to national or world wide events. Must write a story of at least 3 paragraphs. Story must include THE 6 QUESTIONS. |
| THE SPORTS INTERVIEW: An in-depth interview with a winter sports athlete or coach. Must write a 2 paragraph story that relates the interview and the answers to THE 6 QUESTIONS. |
THE EDITORIAL: An editorial (opinion) writing regarding a school or national topic. Must write a 3 paragraph story that outlines your editorial, with supports for your arguments. |
EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY: Staff will complete a photography assignment by attending and photographing all aspects of a school event (club meeting or athletic event). This assignment must include AT LEAST 50 photographs to be considered. |
| TRENDING: A 2 paragraph story regarding a new trend at school or in the news. Should address the 6 QUESTIONS. |
CLUB NEWS: A 3 paragraph story regarding the news of a club at HHS. Must address the 6 questions. |
PERSONALITY PROFILE: An in-depth interview of a student, coach, or staff member. Must write a 2 paragraph story that relates the interview and the answers to THE 6 QUESTIONS. MUST NOT BE BORING!!! |
| TIDBITS: A collection of at least 7 different pieces of information (data, statistics, survey results, etc.) regarding activities or events at HHS. This information needs to be explained in detail and should be easily graphed or charted. |
INTERESTING CLASS ACTIVITIES: A 2 paragraph story regarding an interesting activity you are working on in a class. Should include information regarding the 6 QUESTIONS. |
PHOTOGRAPHER FOR A DAY: Take a camera for an entire day and take at least 5 photographs from each of your classes, including lunch and open blocks. |
| THE COOL THING: Conduct an interview (complete with photographs) regarding something interesting that a student or staff person is doing. Interview must answer the 6 QUESTIONS. |
PORTRAITS: Complete a full portrait photo shoot of a student that is on the "Coverage List", must include at least 25 different photographs. |
CAPTION THIS: Using at least 7 photographs taken for the assignments above, complete captions for each, including a CAPTION HEADLINE, a PRESENT TENSE description of the photograph and a PAST TENSE deeper description of the subject of each photograph. |
COMPLETING ACTIVITIES: Students will be required to complete at least 10 of the 15 activities above to be considered for credit. In each case, students must keep the following in mind:
- Staff will be completing a PORTFOLIO of completed activity assignments above. Written activities will be printed and submitted. Photography activities will be copied to an assignment folder.
- It is EXPECTED that staff working on this project will be talking to other staff to determine WHAT INFORMATION is needed for upcoming pages whenever possible. The purpose of these activities is (generally) to create material for use in the book!
- Staff will be PROFESSIONAL and accomodating at all times when interacting with other students and staff.
- For written activities, staff must use proper grammar and complete sentences at all times. Each work will be properly titled, spell checked and printed for submission. Paragraph "requirements" are listed only as suggestions. If more paragraphs will be required to complete the activity and answer the 6 QUESTIONS, it is expected that the staff member will write MORE than required.
- Although written activities must be printed to submit them, please keep a DIGITAL COPY, so that material can be easily copied and pasted for use on pages.
- For photography assignments, only clear, well composed, interesting photographs will be considered. It is STRONGLY advised that you use classroom cameras for these projects. Photographs from a smart phone will not be appropriate.
- Staff will have 12 CLASS PERIODS to complete this assignment. It is expected that each staff person will be fully utilizing their class time to complete this work. Should class time not be enough, the student will be expected to complete the work outside of the class room, as necessary.
- Absences will not be excuses for submitting late work. Yearbook deadlines must now be met at all times.
GRADING AND PROGRESS: Late projects will be marked down 5 points per activity for each day late. This will be the first project assignment for the semester for staff that has been taken off of page duty. Each activity will be graded for a total of 20 points, based on quality of the production. If a staff person completes the project on time and receives a grade of 80 percent or higher on the project, they will be allowed to return to yearbook page work. Otherwise, staff will be given another project assignment for completion.
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