Contact info: (Email: garcia_mic@aps.edu) Phone: 897-0110, Ext. 40033

2021-22 Yearbook Syllabus

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Journalism – Yearbook I-IV

CIBOLA HIGH SCHOOL

Mr. Garcia, Yearbook Adviser

Room C-20

garcia_mic@aps.edu

Welcome to Yearbook! Yearbook is a fun but challenging class. Being a member is a large responsibility, but by the end of the year, you have produced a piece of history valued by students, staff, and the community.

Editorial Leadership:

Editors-in-chief: Ivonae Vejil

Photo Editors: Megan Christophersen, Jadyn Jennings

Design Editor: Mehgan Hargrove

Assignment Editor: Silver Carmody

Section editors: Ivonae Vejil (sports), Tori Gutierrez (clubs), Kina Pipkin/Katelyn Williams (student life), Megan Christophersen/Jadyn Jennings (People), Silver Carmody (Academics)

Social Media Editor: Kina Pipkin/Katelyn Williams

Business/Marketing/AD Sales Editor: Tori Gutierrez

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to study journalistic writing and yearbook production. This class will explore all aspects of journalism by concentrating on ethics, news gathering, copy writing, photography, editing, and revision. It establishes the fundamentals of high school yearbook production through the study of photography, page design, and layout. The culminating project for the class is the planning, creation, and distribution of a school yearbook.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Learn and demonstrate journalistic principles

• Develop the concept of the yearbook

• Understand how a yearbook theme keeps consistency and flow within the yearbook

• Learn to use the http://myhjyearbook.com eDesign site software

• Meet original deadlines

• Deliver a professionally designed and written yearbook to students on time

EXPECTATIONS:

While completing this course, students will have the opportunity to demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

• Interpersonal communication

• Interviewing/Factual researching

• Legal/Ethical media issues

• Meeting production deadlines

• Photography principles and/or practice

• Headline/caption writing

• Knowledge of current events

• Herff Jones proprietary software

PARTICIPATION:

Students enrolled in yearbook are expected to participate fully during class, as many learning activities and stories will be due before the end of the class. Time outside of class will be required for interviewing, reporting and shooting photos at various school and community-related events. In addition, students will be expected to complete every page or photo assignment using the highest ethical and legal standards for publication.

Deadlines:

Publication deadlines and timeliness are essential components of yearbook. Consequently, if you miss your deadlines, you will receive a poor grade. Because our yearbook is directly tied to specific deadlines set by our publisher, any single- or double-page spread or related assignment that fails to meet deadline will only be eligible for half credit. Any spread that is not complete by the second class after deadline will receive no credit at all. This could lead to you being removed from the class.

Plagiarism/using non-legitimate sources or fact gathering practices:

Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated. Students in yearbook are required to submit their own work and cite their sources. This means interviewing sources one-on-one in person, or if that is not possible, via a phone call or video chat. Interviews using e-mail, Facebook, or any other non-live sources are not considered legitimate sources to use for quotation purposes for publication. (The exception is using an e-mail or website information area that—for example—relays factual/statistical information for use in a story, such as a scoreboard or stats for a sports team from a coach, the number of tickets sold for a dance from the financial secretary, etc.) In addition, we can’t use any images that we haven’t taken ourselves or that our photographers haven’t taken for us. We may manipulate copyrighted images but only under fair use guidelines. Any student caught plagiarizing, manufacturing quotes, fabricating facts and/or using non-legitimate sources/fact- gathering practices will receive consequences in accordance to APS policy.

CLASSROOM RULES:

1. Students will follow all school rules as outlined in the student handbook and syllabus.

2. Students will work together to create an environment conducive to teamwork.

3. Students will display honesty, dependability, and trustworthiness in dealing with the community.

4. Students will display good judgment and ethics in good journalism.

GRADING POLICY: Grades will be determined by completion of assigned pages (including photos and final copy), meeting deadlines for page submissions, the ability to work together as team and class participation.

*Formative Assessments: Online and in-person attendance/in-class and online participation (working on pages/spreads in class/online): 10%

*Minor Assessments: Making sure assigned events are covered (mini/rough deadlines): 20%

*Major Assessments: Completed spreads (design, layout, photos, proofreading, revision, editing, final submission): 50%

*Semester exam/project/deadline work: 20%

COURSE CONTENT: This class requires students to learn all aspects of yearbook production. Elements of production require:

I. Organizational Skills:

A. Follow a ladder for page submission and deadlines

B. Coordinate photography to ensure school-wide representation for pictures using Kenneth Brown Photography and coordinating with staff for all sections of the annual including senior pictures, underclassman pictures, staff pictures, sports pictures, prom pictures, homecoming pictures, etc.

C. Create an atmosphere conducive to teamwork

II. Language Skills:

A. Learn terminology used in yearbook production

B. Write headlines, copy, and captions using standard rules of English grammar and the Journalist style from the Associated Press handbook

C. Examine the audience to assess need and equity in preparing themes and pages

D. Revise and edit every page for content, language, grammar, usage, and ethics in journalism

III. Technology Skills:

A. Create yearbook using Herff Jones eDesign software and other publishing programs.

B. Develop photographic skills using Photoshop and other picture-editing programs/apps

C. Use graphics, text and fonts to create artistically balanced pages

D. Use various social media platforms to promote/highlight yearbook activities and CHS events throughout the year

Digital Camera/Technology Usage:

Students are expected to be responsible for school-owned equipment used in journalism: including digital cameras, lenses, film cards, batteries, scanners, camera bags, computers, and software. I understand that my child will be required to pay for lost or damaged equipment if the equipment is lost, broken, or damaged while checked out to your child. Digital cameras are valued from $300 to $1,000; lenses are valued at $450 - $1,000. Camera repairs start at $400 minimum; these are not minor costs. Computer equipment must be cared for in a businesslike manner and misuse will not be tolerated.

Update: Students will use their cellphones primarily with two assigned photographers checking out the yearbook cameras for the entire year to eliminate sharing of cameras.

STAFF CONTRACT for the CIBOLA HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK STAFF

MR. MICHAEL GARCIA, ADVISER

The yearbook publication is unlike any other class on campus. Because we have the tremendous responsibility of preserving the memories of high school for every student who goes to our school, we have got to have an extraordinary team and a fair and firm set of rules. Each staffer and his/her parents must read and sign this contract. Staffers initial in the space provided and return it to the adviser.

For Staff to Initial:

_____1. I understand the importance and cost of publication equipment and supplies and agree to use care when using all equipment. Should I neglect or abuse equipment, I will pay for repair or replacement.

_____2. I understand that I will be asked to run errands, take photos, do interviews, etc. on campus during the class period assigned for yearbook, during lunch, and before and after school. I commit to being where I am supposed to be and doing what I am supposed to be doing at all times.

_____3. I understand that I am responsible for learning all aspects of yearbook publication. I will pay attention to instruction, take good notes and apply what I have learned in class to my yearbook assignments. I will get help if I am not sure what to do BEFORE I get behind.

_____4. I understand that my course grade will be based on the quality of my work, my participation in all yearbook activities (including outside of class) and my timeliness at meeting deadlines.

_____5. I understand that my attendance is vital to the work of yearbook publication. In the event that I must be absent, I will promptly make up any work, even if it means that I must work outside of class time. I will also notify my team and the adviser (by email, if possible) of my absence.

_____6. I understand that it will be necessary for me to work outside of class time (before school, during lunch, after school) to complete yearbook production. I will make necessary arrangements to do so.

_____7. I will meet all deadlines assigned to me, and will communicate immediately to the adviser and/or editors if circumstances beyond my control (i.e. inclement weather, cancellation of an event, failure of another staff member to complete his/her assignment, etc.) prevents my assignment from being completed.

Student Signature:___________________________________ Date:____________________

Parent Signature: _____________________________________________________________

Date:__________________

Yearbook is an academic elective.

Any student who does not contribute his or her share to the production of this publication may receive a failing grade and will be asked to find another elective. Anyone who writes or edits any information that is deemed by me to be inappropriate will suffer consequences in accordance with APS policy.