Yearbook: APPLICATION TO JOIN

(two semester elective; Select Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors)

PREREQUISITE: TEACHER SIGNATURE REQUIRED and APPLICATION

This course trains students in the skills necessary to produce an artistic and interesting school yearbook.

Students are expected to have a strong English grade, be committed to after-school work, and have parental permission and transportation.

The Freshmen composition may be taken during summer with grade of B or higher.

Honors Yearbook (CSU / UC VPA approved )

PREREQUISITE: Yearbook, Invitation for Head Staff Role

All staff members will be considered for a head staff role for the following year, although it is not guaranteed.

If a student demonstrates dedication, responsibility, leadership skills, and a good work ethic they will be asked to be a head staff member and will be enrolled in Advanced Yearbook the following year.

Course Specifics

Yearbook

Description

As storytellers, the Tusitala staff is endowed with the responsibility of documenting the current school year. The staff will explore and express their creative selves with the ultimate goal of presenting a special, journalistic, document to the student body at the end of May.

Expectations and Goals

Students will have to stretch their personal boundaries in meeting new people. We must seek out the stories that will ultimately tell the story of Amat’s student body. We are not only telling the story of the year… We are telling the story of the PEOPLE at Amat this year.

Yearbook staff is expected to remain professional when photographing all events. All staff members are required to attend events on and off campus in order to fully document Bishop Amat’s students. Interviews will be completed in a timely manner after an event or game. Questions for interviews must be asked in person and the entirety of each interview must be recorded with the permission of the interviewee.

Students will be assessed on both their individual production and the production of their team. Since the creation of the Yearbook is a cooperative effort, a portion of each staff member’s grade will be connected to his or her team. Each student will be assigned a page by their team leader. Each student will be evaluated on the work that they individually complete for their assigned page. Group grades, therefore, will be the average score of each page per deadline.

We hope to produce a professional and well-rounded book and our effort and dedication will clearly show in the final product of this year’s edition of Tusitala.

Advanced Yearbook

Description

Advanced Yearbook is a year-long course in which students are responsible for the production of Tusitala, Bishop Amat Memorial High School’s yearbook. Students learn basic techniques of page layout, copy writing, editing, proofreading, photo selection and desktop publishing. The course will focus on students understanding a designer’s target audience and stimulating creativity through a variety of two-dimensional media. They will maintain the integrity of design through the editing process, while collaborating and communicating with their colleagues on the yearbook staﬀ.

Expectations and Goals

As a student in Advanced Yearbook, students provide greatly appreciated leadership skills as head staﬀ roles such as editor-in-chief, assistant editor, photography editor, and team leaders. Editors will play a crucial role in developing and creating this year’s theme and major design elements. They will also work with new yearbook students in a mentor role. They will critique previous books and present their thoughts on design, typography, theme, layout, and photography, giving new students a clear understanding of what makes a strong yearbook. In addition to the responsibility of their own pages, second and third year staﬀ will edit pages completed by fellow staﬀers oﬀering suggestions for improvements and checking for detail cohesion within the book as a whole. Head staff enjoy both more responsibility and more input toward not only the yearbook as a publication, but also in the functioning and duties of the staﬀ as well.