Arroyo Seco Yearbook

Welcome to Yearbook!

Thank you for your interest in joining the yearbook staff! Yearbook is a popular elective and becomes competitive to get into. Since it is a one period class, there is limited space. Completing an application does not guarantee acceptance. More students want to join yearbook than the class can support. That means only a certain number of students will be accepted into the class.

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The Yearbook student's goal is to record, photograph, interview, and to write stories about the school year. They do this so that students can reflect back on their junior high experiences.

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The Yearbook students create the entire book, including the cover. The students are in charge of the way the yearbook operates. Under student leadership roles, the class decides the stories, photographs, captions, page design, color schemes, theme, and all other aspects of a quality yearbook that will represent Arroyo Seco Jr. High in the best and most memorable way possible.

Yearbook students are also responsible for things that are not seen in the book. They put together marketing flyers, advertisements, school TV commercials, and other tasks to promote the yearbook to students and recognition/tribute ads to parents. Yearbook students also help recruit 6th graders going into 7th grade and 7th graders going into 8th grade for the following school year.

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Yearbook requires dedication and hard work, but it is also a lot of fun. This class gives students a unique and realistic exposure to the real-world publishing experience. We work fast-paced and adhere to strict deadlines, but teamwork helps us to succeed.

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By applying for a position on the Arroyo Seco Yearbook Staff, you are accepting the possibility of a role that makes you responsible for recording our school's history, being part of a class that may require after school hours, work time during school breaks, and even possible Saturday workdays in order to meet specific publisher deadlines.

The ideal yearbook student will have many of the qualities below.

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A Yearbook staff member's responsibilities will include:

• Making yearbook class a priority

• Being on time to class

• Maintaining good grades in your other classes

• Working as a team to complete all sections of the yearbook - even ones you weren't initially assigned to

• Working on yearbook outside of class time

• Going to after-school events to take photos and to cover stories

• Meeting strict deadlines

• Writing stores, articles, and captions about what's going on in a photo, and then proofreading it for spelling and grammar errors

• Talking to and taking photographs of people you don't know

• Convincing shy students to let you take their picture

• Conducting interviews with teachers to get information about their group/club

• Conducting interviews with students

• Creating polls and surveys to gather information

• Checking the spelling of everyone’s name in the school (and making sure it’s the name they go by)

• Sometimes spending 45 minutes cutting out a background on just ONE picture

• Never using the phrase, “It’s good enough.”

• Handle expensive photography equipment with care

• Learning a lot, working hard, and having fun