Homework Archives
2017-18
March Trojournal Deadlines:
Friday, March 16: Story 1 deadline
Saturday, March 17- Sunday, March 25 Spring Break.
Monday, March 26 Mr. McClure gone
Wednesday, April 4: "March" publication date.
Friday, April 6: Mr. McClure gone.
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Semester 2, week 17
Monday, 5-14
Final project begins.
Wednesday, 5-16 Final project ends.
Friday, 5-18 Mothball.
*Final projects: Proofread and test all. Pair to test.
*Photos: Save sports photos and any other great shot Yearbook might use.
*Layout: Move old templates into a folder called "older."
*Futures: Initial or put first name on 5 items that you've put on the futures book.
Semester 2, week 16
Monday, 5-7 Finish brag board. Update sports stories. Update and finish score box. (Will additional update be necessary Wednesday?) Finish all layout, including heads and captions. Kylee, do you have the Dr. Ogle photo?
Wednesday, 5-9 Proofread and put final touches on Trojournal.
Friday, 5-11 Trojournal out.
Semester 2, week 15
Monday, 4-30
Gwynn and Hope - Get contest entry in.
Taygan and Becca- Get April Trojournal online.
Kylee - Q's for new principal.
Others - Plan issue. Choose editorial and column. Choose senior features. Choose other stories. Determine front page photo or drawing. Sports photos - When and who? See previous issues on screen. Discuss senior features (or others).
Wednesday, 5-2 Work on stories. Continue senior layout.
Gywnn, find payment section of KSPA website for monthly contest entry.
Friday, 5-4 Stories due.
Monday, 5-7 Layout.
Wednesday, 5-9 Layout.
Friday, 5-11 Distribute May edition.
Semester 2, week 12
Monday, 4-9
Report your plans for April and May.
Fill in the monthly story assignments page for April. Create another for May and fill it in, too.
Determine questions for seniors if you've decided to create a senior edition.
What features will you choose about seniors if you've chosen that?
Hope and Seth - Examine headline requirements. Submit online entry for state contest. Taygan, help with this.
Dominic and Blayke - Work on personal pub layout.
All others - Write questions for April story.
After lunch: Discuss checks and balances. Review page editor's checklist. See pp. 10-11 of Trojournal on screen. See what was done to fix the layout. Re-create the layout.
HW: Complete your interview.
Wednesday, 4-11
Read this short news story and see this CBS news clip about the Russells' miniature horses.
Write questions for the Friday excursion to the Russells' house.
Finalize plan for stories. See the monthly assignments. Add photos for Friday also. Baseball and softball teams play at home. Track at Smoky.
Friday, 4-13 April story due for most.
Monday, 4-16 May issue questions for seniors due to Mr. M. and Mrs. R.
Wednesday, 4-18: Large group music. Many of you will be gone.
Friday, 4-20
Monday, 4-23
Wednesday, 4-25 Hope and Seth's headlines due for state contest.
Thursday, 4-26 Publish April Trojournal.
Semester 2, week 11
Monday, 4-2 Proofread.
Wednesday, 4-4 Publish and pass papers.
Friday, 4-6
Contest critiques are in. Pass them out and take a few minutes to look at them. Then return them to the manila envelope.
Plan April and May issues. (Taygan in charge of budgeting space. Gwynn in charge of generating ideas for stories. Both will work together. Everyone should participate.) Begin by discussing the following: With no seniors on staff, do you desire to do a senior issue. Will you be able to get senior participation? (Whatever you decide, keep in mind that Seth and Hope will need time to work on their headlines for state contest. Their entries are due Wednesday, April 25 by 11 p.m.)
1. Choose publications dates. I'd suggest Thursday, April 26. (There's an in-service Friday, the 27th.) and Friday, May 11. (The senior commencement is on Sunday, May 13.)
2. Choose story deadline dates.
3. Generate story ideas. (See the bottom of the Monthly Story Assts. page for a few ideas.)
4. Assign stories. Note the assignments on the Monthly Story Assts. page. Be sure to assign sports stories, too.
5. Assign tasks, including page layout assignments, for both issues.
6. Create templates for both issues.
7. Generate feature ideas for both issues. If you decide to do a senior issue, the May features should be about seniors.
8. Get started on layout for the May issue. If you decide to prepare a senior issue, you can find photos and determine what questions you'll ask the seniors and how you'll get the answers. (I'd suggest using paper and asking Mrs. Rohrer and me to use a few minutes of English class time to collect answers.)
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Monday, 3-26
1. Revise stories. Tell Kylee when they are ready. She will copy edit. Then revise again.
2. Kylee, let staff know when stories are ready to lay out.
3. All staff, Get as much layout done as you can. Taygan will write layout assignments on the board at the beginning of class.
4. All, check photo assignments and take the camera if you need to shoot photos. (Kennedy, make sure the battery is charged.)
Wednesday, 3-28 Continue layout.
Friday, 3-30 Finish layout.
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Semester 2, week 9
Monday, 3-12
Plan "March" issue.
Write questions for story 1.
Get layout templates ready.
Review
1. Sizing photos.*
2. Putting stories in shared folder.
3. Placing stories and choosing fonts from the Trojournal styles menu.
4. Finding mug shots.
5. Wrapping text around a mug shot.*
6. Removing text wrap from text.*
7. Maintaining consistent 1-pica spacing between columns and photos.*
8. Keeping font size the same in a story, including the byline (and using the byline style from the Trojournal styles menu).*
9. Using shift-control to avoid stretching photos.*
10. Using a final checklist.
Task for the day:
In assigned pairs, create a 2-page layout different from the one the Trojournal used. Include a mug shot with text flow, a larger photo with 1-pica spacing, stories, headlines and captions. Submit by end of block.
Wednesday, 3-14
Mr. Mann interview.
Work on stories.
Friday, 3-16
Story deadline.
Semester 2, week 8
Monday, 2-26 Contest makeup day
Wednesday, 2-28 P/T conferences
Friday, 3-2 TJ layout
Monday, 3-5 Finalize TJ
Wednesday, 3-7 Publish Feb. issue.
Semester 2, week 7
Monday, 2-19 Work on issue. Make sure sports boxes are ready.
Wednesday, 2-21 Work on issue. FINISH ALL LAYOUT. NO SCHOOL FRIDAY.
Thursday, 2-22 Contest in Manhattan. Seth and Hope: Complete all the layout you can complete. We'll probably move our distribution date to Monday, March 5.
Friday, 2-23 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS.
Semester 2, week 8
Monday, 2-26 Proofread and revise. Add details about wrestling.
Tuesday, 2-27 Fold and distribute Feb. Trojournal.
Wednesday, 2-28 NO SCHOOL. P/T AND CAREER CRUISIN' CONFERENCES.
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Semester 2, week 6
Monday, 2-12
Look at March calendar. Notice publication date options.
OUT BEFORE SPRING BREAK: One week to write, one week to lay out.
OUT AFTER SPRING BREAK: Stories due before break. Layout after break.
Ask about help with Monday, March 5 JH scholars' meet.
Make plans for additional features.
Revise story 1; finalize fun page; review story assignments and layout plans.
Seth and Hope: Headline rough due by end of period.
Kennedy: Show me your bench photos and your captions.
Blayke and Dominic: Photo and story for personal pub due by end of period.
Taygan: Work on making a story of the links I've sent you. Take another look at the layout plan and add stories as needed.
Drew: You know.
Kylee: What is story 2?
Wednesday, 2-14 Seth, Hope, Kennedy: Send headlines and bench photo. Taygan - help with tech.
Shoot play photos in evening.
Friday, 2-16 All stories due (except finalizing wrestling and bb)
Grandparents day. Shoot more play photos?
Semester 2, week 5
Monday, 2-5
Finalize story assignments.
Taygan - Create Feb. template.
Gwynn - Fill in contest info.
Seth and Hope - Work on headlines contest.
Dominic and Blayke - Work on personal publications.
All others: Work on Feb. stories.
Wednesday, 2-7 Pizza day. Relax. Continue work from Monday.
HW: Story 1 due Friday, 2-9.
Friday, 2-9 Story 1 due.
HW: Seth and Hope - rough of headlines for contest due Monday.
Dominic and Blayke - one story and one photo due on personal pub by end of Monday's class. (More is better.)
Kennedy: Photos of bench people tonight. Don't forget camera. Assign photogs for Thursday and maybe Friday.
Monday, 2-12 Work on stories and projects.
Wednesday, 2-14 Headlines and sports photo due at end of class. Send while Taygan and I are available to help you.
Friday, 2-16 Second story due.
Semester 2, week 4
Monday, 1-29 Finish all layout and proofread.
Wednesday, 1-31
1. Fold Trojournals and pass at lunch. (Pass again in TIP: Becca and Kennedy)
2. Fill in credit sheet and hand it to the sub.
3. Put TJ online. (Taygan and Becca)
3. Plan February issue. Assign two stories per person. Put assignments on monthly story assts. sheet.
4. Most: Work on independent tutorials from left sidebar (Layout stuff) if time permits. Tell me which items you worked on. Layne and Dominic- start personal pubs. Seth and Hope - work on your contest headlines.
Friday, 2-2 Finalize story assignments. Sign up for contest. Work on contest pieces.
Semester 2, week 2
Monday, 1-15 NO school for students
Wednesday, 1-17 Gwynn, Kylee, Becca gone - field trip - work day
1. Proofread all first stories and ready for publication.
2. Place all first stories.
Friday, 1-19 Story 2 due:
1. Proofread and place all stories except DVACK stories
2. Headline and caption all stories and photos.
Monday, 1-22 Field trip to DVACK
Wednesday, 1-23 Place all of DVACK materials (admin story, survivor story, Jana's Campaign story)
Friday, 1-25 Place headlines and captions.
Monday, 1-29 Final proofreading of Trojournal.
Wednesday, 1-31 Fold and distribute Trojournal.
Wednesday, 1-31 Mr. McClure gone all day. Plan and assign February stories in his absence.
Semester 2, week 1
Monday, 1-8
Plan January stories
Band feature?
Other under-covered areas?
All-school play Feb. 8 and 10
Mini lesson -
Show Personal pubs on overhead.
What is Wednesday's assembly? Send camera.
Taygan: Create new template for personal pub from current TJ template.
Gwynn: Put December TJ online. Make a list of current students (this year or prior years) who have been featured in the TJ or in Informer. Name and reason featured. Make a list of others who could be featured and why.
HW: Interview q's for story 1
Wednesday, 1-10
Contest info. Contest is Thursday, Feb. 22.
See this KSPA Regional contest site.
Click on the following:
Schedule for contest days
Onsite contests
Digital submission contests (See judges' frequent comments.)
Onsite contest rules and tips
Simply Better (Assignment: Read and report to class your observations about a contest you might participate in.)
Mini lesson: InDesign review
See Indesign Basics on screen.
Revise personal pubs using what you've learned (and what you already know). Hang pubs again.
Work on stories. Add to story list.
Friday, 1-12
Story 1 due
First semester plans
Week 16
Monday, 12-4
Continue Friday's checklist. See below:
See the checklist on the Monthly Story Assts. page. Continue planning.
J2:
Olivia: Put TJ on Twitter. Appointment with Mr. Mann?
All: Show me questions for story 1.
Taygan: Are templates for December issue ready?
Gwynn: Fun page
J1: Work on personal publications.
Wednesday, 12-6 December Trojournal deadline #1. All: Submit to slot on Classroom.
Taygan: See the checklist on the Monthly Story Assts. page. Continue planning and assigning.
Gwynn: Feature idea for main package? How about a feature about deer danger at SES with a focus on hunter Bre Standley, who would like to increase deer hunting limits and took several days off school to hunt recently?
Olivia: Interview Mr. Mann. See Mr. Stumpf about initiating a Twitter presence for the Trojournal and ask if he'd be fine with our unblocking Twitter for your Trojournal use (and Drew's).
J1: After stories are in, work on personal pubs.
Friday, 12-8 Personal pub page 1 and one other page due.
Wednesday, 12-13 December TrojournalDeadline 2
Friday, 12-15 3rd page of personal pub due.
Monday, 12-18 Final production day on December Trojournal
Wednesday, 12-20 Trojournal folding and distribution, publishing online, etc.
J1 personal pub all pages due.
Week 15
Monday, 11-20
Finalize layout; add all headlines and corrections
Tuesday, 11-21
TROJOURNAL FOLDING AND DISTRIBUTION
Wednesday, 11-22 Thanksgiving break begins
Week 14
Monday, 11-12
Work on story 2 (This is pretty late. Try to beat this deadline. If you can, your layout experience won't be as stressful.) If time permits, work on personal publication
Wednesday, 11-14
Story 2 due in final
Friday, 11-16
Layout
Week 16
Monday, 11-27
ALL -
* Fill out credit sheet for November issue.
Group work.
*Taygan and Becca - Get November issue online and sent to students and teachers.) When you finish, join the story planning group.
*Olivia and Drew: When Taygan and Becca finish their task, it is your job to put the Trojournal PDF on Twitter. (Olivia, you should know the password.) Just leave the planning session for a while to get this done. When you with Twitter, rejoin the story planning group.
* Gwynn (in charge), Seth, Hope, Kylee, Kennedy - Plan the December issue.
Kennedy: If you have spare time, continue reading the new camera's manual to learn how to use it better and/or join the December story planning group.
Continuation of Forrest Gump (video is in player)
*When all students have been assigned (or have chosen) one feature story and one other story (Cartoons, graphics, photos, fun pages, and other art don't count in this tally, but they do need to be part of your group plan.), play the Forrest Gump video.
*As you continue Forrest Gump, write down examples of lead-ins to quotes in the movie. Plan to show me your list Wednesday.
Wednesday, 11-29
Follow up on story assignments.
Get November Trojournal on email and Twitter.
Consider additional stories.
DVACK? Ashby House? Anybody connected with Grand Avenue Methodist? They're starting a homeless shelter for the winter.
Friday, 12-1
Finalize assignments (Put all assignments on monthly assignment sheet.)
Check for the following:
Kennedy____Lead editorial?
Olivia - Need one more____Column(s)?
Seth - about Nick____Sports feature?
Becca____Brag board assigned?
??____Around the Halls assigned?
??____Christmas-related feature
??____ Feature about Carter and video instead of Christmas feature?
Gwynn - feature; Kylee - global story____Main package developed (road safety)
?____Sports photos assigned (some assigned?)
?____Other photos planned and assigned
No____Main package graphic planned
No____Front page photo planned
No____Page 3 cartoon assigned
Mail out November Trojournal. Put TJ on Twitter.
Write questions for story 1.
Create templates for December issue.
Week 13
Monday, 11-6
J2 - Re-create templates and investigate Twitter at area schools
J1 - Questions for stories and personal pubs
Wednesday, 11-8
Reconsider stories and add others. Discuss camera basics.
Friday, 11-9
Story 1 deadline
Week 12
Monday, 10-30
*Discuss October Trojournal.
Spelling "sophomore," "receive"
Graphics - front and ghost (want more of these)
Photos
Coordination of tasks
Verification of stories
*Read three November issues and answer the questions on this Google Doc.
*Use the Google Doc to create story ideas for November. Put them on the November Futures Book.
*Fill in the Monthly Story Assts. sheet and choose stories.
Wednesday, 11-1
*Fill out Credit Sheet.
*Learn about creating PDF and web site. Post October Trojournal.
*Fill in details on futures book. Choose/assign stories for November.
Friday, 11-3
Did you turn in your credit sheet. If not, turn in it.
Next issue. Day before Thanksgiving break.
Finalize story assignments. (Anybody doing Black Friday stories?) Copy all assignments from the futures book to the monthly story assignments list.
J1 - Work on personal publications.
Taygan, work with Gwynn on creating a new template from scratch or changing the defaults on our current templates so text wrap is NOT the default. Here's a video about starting from scratch. Here's an explanation of how to change preferences and defaults. This task will probably be frustrating.
Here are the things we need to change:
1. When we enter text and graphics, we don't want to default to having a text wrap around either.
2. When we enter text on an InDesign page, we don't want it to be italicized and flush right.
3. There may be other details to fix. You may make a list and fix them. For example, maybe you want to work in inches rather than picas. If so, put that on the list of default changes you'd like to make.
Olivia, explore other schools' Twitter accounts and see what they are posting. Start with Salina Central and Ellsworth. Prepare a report for me and your class.
Gwynn, help Taygan fix our defaults in InDesign or work on the next fun page.
J2 - You are at the beck and call of J1 students when they need help with personal publications.
Week 11
Monday, 10-23 Finalize layout. Verify all stories. Write your own headlines. Nothing to do? Work on your personal publications.
Wednesday, 10-25 Proofread. Check all headlines and captions multiple times. Put corrections on pages.
Thursday, 10-26 Fold Trojournal in blocks 2 and 4. (Gwynn and Taygan in charge) Distribute at lunch. (Who will do this first shift? Second? We don't have journalism that day.)
Friday, 10-27 NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS. TEACHER IN-SERVICE DAY.
Week 10
Monday, 10-16 See daily job sheet. Finalize all stories and get them on pages.
Wednesday, 10-18 PT conferences
Thursday, 10-19 Freshmen - continue layout and write headlines.
Week 9
Monday, 10-9
Friday, 13th parent permission forms.
Ghost poll. Other stories for ghost spread? Research story about national and even international beliefs? (Plan a double page spread.)
Determine where all stories go on pages.
Finalize story plans for story 2.
Write story 2; due Wednesday.
Revise first stories and put on pages.
Determine layout assignments.
VB feature? Which team member? What angle?
Wednesday, 10-11
Look at calendar for next week. Plan ahead for the loss of class time. Sophomores: Much work will need to be done outside of class.
Submit story #2.
Place story #1.
Look at photos needed and photos available. Make photo assignment. Choose a front page photo.
Who draws the cartoon? What will it be about? Need more than one? Plans for illustrating each page?
Musical shots during block 3.
Theater lights story?
Week 10 (Interrupted week: ASPIRE testing and PT conferences*)
*Monday, 10-16 Most of you will be in math testing. Kennedy, Drew, Becca: Read all stories and put all stories and photos on the pages.
*Wednesday, 10-18 Parent-teacher conference day - NO SCHOOL
*Thursday, 10-19 This will be a journalism day. It's the day we want all copy and photos and headlines and captions on the pages.
Week 11
Monday, 10-23 Final day to finish any layout.
Wednesday, 10-25 Proofread. Pay particular attention to headlines and captions.
Thursday, 10-26 Distribute Trojournal during lunch. Fold blocks 2 and 4. Kylee and Gwynn: Find help in block 2 English 10. Olivia: Get helpers in block 4.
Week 8
Monday, 10-2 Work on story 1; write questions for story 1 interview. Some have suggested a Twitter account for The Trojournal. See the Central Pylon Twitter feed and web site.
Wednedsay, 10-4 Work on stories and personal pubs.
Friday, 10-5 First story due. Submit on Classroom.
Discuss ghost DPS plans and rules of Friday the 13th ghost investigation.
See 1988 stories on screen.
1. Use same rules as 1988 except that we close at 12:15 rather than 2:30?
2. SES lunchroom poll to compare with national ghost belief statistics.
a. Nearly half (45 percent) of American adults polled believe in ghosts. (Want to ask about witches, too?)
b. 78 percent believe in life after death. (See this story online.)
3. James story won't happen. Ideas for other stories?
One thought: Stories about what faculty members who went to school here have heard? Mrs. Boley's "every theater is said to have a ghost." Mr. Tuzicka's theater story as told by Mrs. Boley. Mrs. Rohrer, Mrs. Heather Douglas, Mr. Chance Ptacek, Mr. Trenton Douglas and Mrs. Debie Nickelson were students here. When did they attend and what rumors did they hear?
Permission form for Friday, the 13th.
Week 7
Issue 2
Monday, 9-25 (Three students will be in this class.)
Take 10 minutes to read The Salina Journal online. (Individual work)
Using the Salina Journal to get ideas, write down 5 ideas per person that might transfer to The Trojournal. (Individual work)
Then work together on the Futures Book. Fill in enough ideas for October that there are at least two story ideas for each person on staff (at least 18 total USEABLE ideas).
J1 students, Hope and Seth: Work on your personal publications.
J2 student, Olivia Pennington: Use InDesign CC 2017 to create the October “blank” pages for The Trojournal. We’ll plan to distribute the next issue on Oct. 25. Just use the September Trojournal pages as your template and use the SAVE AS command to create October “blank” pages. DO NOT USE THE SAVE COMMAND; that would save over the top of the September pages, and we may still need those. Remember, though: You will keep the flag stuff on page 1, the masthead material and the Around the Halls stuff on p. 2, and the sports box on the right of page 13. Change all folio lines to Oct. 25 (including page 1) and change the issue number to “2.”. You can’t mess things up if you’ll use the SAVE AS command, so proceed with confidence.
If any of you finish or, for some unforeseen reason, cannot proceed, work independently on the InDesign and PhotoShop tutorials listed in the left sidebar (also reproduced below):
Layout Stuff
Tutorials-InDesign
More ID Tutorials
Wednesday, 9-27 Look over credit sheet and discuss. Assign stories. Talk about KSPA Fall Conference.
See this article about Tinker vs. Des Moines and this interview with Mary Beth Tinker.
Use Tinker, who talks about the civil rights movement as the impetus for her black arm band protest, as a segue to the Salina Central Pylon racism controversy. See Salina Journal stories (front page Monday, Sept. 25 and Sept. 26) on the Salina.com website, this KWCH segment and the Pylon's racism spread (pp. 16 and 17). Then, using 200-300 words per question, answer the four questions listed here and submit your answers on Classroom. Due by end on class. Due for Olivia by Friday beginning of class.
HW: Look at the futures book (October segment), add ideas, and put your name beside two ideas you'd like to follow up on (write stories about).
Friday, 9-29 Finalize story selections for October issue. Write questions for story 1 interview.
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Issue 1
Week 6
Monday, 9-18 Place remainder of stories and photos. Caption HC photos.
Wednesday, 9-20 Double check all headlines and captions. Final proofreading and correcting. Replace xc photo?
Friday, 9-22 For KSPA conference students: Mention plan to visit Capitol on our own after WIBW if we want to do that.
For everyone: Fold during class and distribute Trojournal at lunch. Examine rough draft of credit sheet and fill it in. Taygan, create PDF, send to students, put September issue online.
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Monday, 9-25 and Tuesday, 9-26 - KSPA Fall Conference
Week 5
Monday, 9-11
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Revise all first stories.
Place as they become ready.
Fill in journalism title request?
Using eclipse photo?
Get trips pages laid out.
Cartoonist for page 2?
Assign layout tasks.
Taygan - copy and paste boxes for sports page
Seth, Drew, and Olivia - get sports preseason boxes filled in on layout.
Olivia - Fill in all games and scores we've had thus far on second to last page. Seth and Drew - help with Olivia's score box.
J2 work on layout.
J1 - Declare your theme for your personal pub and get started.
Plan issue 2.
Wednesday, 9-13 (Frantic schedule)
Revise any 2nd stories and submit.
Continue planning issue 2.
J2 - layout as much as possible
J1 - Anyone who has time, start the tutorials listed in the left sidebar under "Layout stuff" (They are tutorials about InDesign and Photoshop. You'll have to sign up for at least one of them. Sign up with Google.)
Friday, 9-15
Get all stuff on layout except:
1. xc photo from home meet (if we decide to replace the one on page).
2. Homecoming photos
Get cameras ready for evening.
Week 4
Monday, 9-4 LABOR DAY - NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, 9-6
Story 1 due.
Begin (?) work on personal publication. Have a second story? It's due Friday.
Discuss KSPA fall conference.
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Friday, 9-8
Story 2 due. Lay out anything that's ready.
Monday, 9-11 Finish layout.
Wednesday, 9-13 Proofread and polish.
Friday, 9-15 Issue 1 out.
Week 3
Monday, 8-28
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Check assignments to see if all have two stories. Mention Haven Johnson living in 5th wheel while house is being built (feature story).
Set story 1 deadline for Sept. 6.
Mrs. Wright in for group interview.
See Aspen Mc feature in last year's September issue. Then write a feature about Mrs. Wright from the notes you have taken. Due Wednesday beginning of block.
Wednesday, 8-30
Mrs. Wright practice feature due.
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Project Mrs. Wright features on screen and discuss challenges, lead-ins to quotes, and organization.
Write interview questions and show a J2 student first and then me after you revise. Plan when you'll interview your subject.
Begin InDesign training by starting personal publications?
Friday, 9-1
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Work on story 1.
Work in InDesign on personal publication. J2 help J1.
Week 2
Monday, 8-21
Note: Ask Taygan to create personal pub templates for each J1 student.
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
Make plans for eclipse viewing, interviewing, and photo-taking.
Group to continue working in groups on quiz 67.
Flash Sep. 18, 2008 edition on the scree and discuss. Focus: Make the Trojournal great(er) again.
HW: None. Eclipsed by eclipse.
Wednesday, 8-23
Take 10 to read Salina Journal e-edition.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Show Mr. M. you Quiz 67 and ask questions.
Flash more first editions - Sep. 18, 2008, Sept.23, 2011 and Sept 23, 2016 - on the screen and discuss.
Collect photos and comments about the eclipse.
PLANNING STORY CONTENT
Share ideas for issue 1. Add ideas to the futures book.
Discuss depth ideas and enterprise story ideas.
Choose an editorial topic for your personal publication before lunch. (We may be able to use these also in The Trojournal.)
Attempt to assign at least one story per person.
MISC.
How will you share information with each other? Should we revive this Wiki?
PERSONAL PUB
Create the template for your personal publication.
Place your photo on page 1 of your personal publication and add a caption.
HW: Finish editorial if it isn't already finished. Either take a photo for the first page of your personal publication or find one and store it on Google Drive so you'll have it Wednesday. Plan your personal publication and be ready to report your focus on Friday.
Friday, 8-25
SIGN UP FOR CLASSROOM AND REMIND!!
Add eclipse comments to the document and photos to the P drive.
Prepare for Mrs. Wright interview.
Tie up loose ends on story assignments, futures book, and personal projects.
Priority:
1. Wiki (or other assignment sheet) must show at least 2 items per person for September Trojournal.
2. Futures book for September Trojournal should be complete and all other months should have at least one idea per category (news, feature, sports feature, depth, editorial)
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Week 1
Thursday, 8-17
GETTING ORGANIZED AND CATCHING THE VISION
Mention Salina Journal e-edition open at this time and the plan to read on desktop machines first 10 minutes of most class periods.
Students introduce themselves.
THEN GATHER OUTSIDE. TAKE CHROMEBOOKS.
DISCUSS SIGN-UP BONUS AND PIZZA.
DISCUSS VISION FOR THE TROJOURNAL.
A. KSPA FALL CONFERENCE (9-25 & 26) AND REGIONAL (2-22) AND STATE CONTEST (5-5)
B. THE PUBLICATION
Web only? InDesign and print? Both?
C. KEEP CONTENT INTERESTING BUT INVOLVE STUDENTS NOT IN CLASS
1.Lots of depth reporting with a main package for each issue.
2. Regularly (in a standard location) publish items from students not in class?
3. Use lots of photos and graphics.
4. Focus on features.
5. Report sports graphically.
D. Discuss 4-page personal projects.
How to find Google art that is in the public domain. (Not copyrighted)
HW: Report next time one item that you think will still be newsworthy on Sept. 15.
Friday, 8-18
5 minutes - Read Salina Journal e-edition.
WHAT DOES THE TROJOURNAL LOOK LIKE AND HOW PROFESSIONAL DOES IT LOOK? See Trojournal archives.
Copied from day 1 - carry over
C. KEEP CONTENT INTERESTING BUT INVOLVE STUDENTS NOT IN CLASS
1.Lots of depth reporting with a main package for each issue.
2. Regularly (in a standard location) publish items from students not in class?
3. Use lots of photos and graphics.
4. Focus on features.
5. Report sports graphically.
D. Discuss 4-page personal projects.
How to find Google art that is in the public domain. (Not copyrighted)
*Do quiz 67. (You will need to create your own copy of this. I have not allowed editing privileges.) You can find the Trojournal archives online here.
*Begin futures book. (You all may edit this document.) Plug homework items in to futures book.
Homework: Brainstorm more ideas for futures book and add them to our futures book. We will continue to revise the futures book next class period, but the more you add at home, the faster we will be able to advance on other projects in class. Add at least five ideas at home for an A on the daily assignment.
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Week 3
Monday, 8-29 GWYNN AND TAYGAN ABSENT FOR CHEERLEADING
Finish all aspects of the assignment page of the Wiki. (Sports, features, etc. need to be assigned.) - DERIC
Work on personal publications - Pages 1 and 2 with ALL LAYOUT COMPLETE are DUE FRIDAY FOR ALL.
HW: Finish pages 1 and 2 of your personal publication.
Wednesday, 8-31
Write interview questions for Mr. Krehbiel (security).
Share editorial ideas: Choose one.
Write questions for assigned stories.
Add Mrs. Wright and Mr. Sager to new personnel story.
Finalize feature story about Aspen for page 3 feature story. Due Friday. Beat the deadline and have it ready by end of class, if possible.
Friday, 9-2 Final draft of feature story about Aspen due. Write the news story about new security features at SES for p. 4. Due no later than Monday. We'll change our focus to Trojournal stories Wednesday and complete personal publications by Friday so we can direct our attention fully to The Trojournal on Wednesday, 9-7.
Week 4
Monday, 9-5 NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, 9-6 Work on personal publication. Olivia interview.
HW: Do your interviews.
Thursday, 9-8 Deadline for first on-your-own TJ story at midnight.
Week 5
Monday, 9-12 Open to work on stories.
Wednesday, 9-14 Open to work on stories
Friday, 9-16 ALL STORIES DUE (UNLESS EXTENDED BECAUSE EVENT HASN'T YET HAPPENED); DEADLINE FOR FRONT PAGE PHOTO; ALL OTHER PHOTOS MUST BE TAKEN OR REQUESTED (except xc photo from home meet).
Week 6
Monday, 9-19 TROJOURNAL LAYOUT
Wednesday, 9-21 TROJOURNAL LAYOUT
Friday, 9-23 TROJOURNAL OUT TO STUDENTS
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Note: November has only two weeks of work time. Dig in.
Issue 3 (2016)
Monday, 10-31 Budget meeting (select all stories)
Wednesday, 11-2 Review story assignments; add feature for Taygan. Develop questions for sports boxes. (Listen to Rudy interview for sample.Show a sample from a previous issue.) Work on questions for stories and set interview times.
Friday, 11-4 Download musical photos and start musical layout. (Gwynn) Get Nov. fun page done. (Olivia)
Monday, 11-7 Story 1 due.
Wednesday, 11-9 (Mr. Mc gone but story is due anyway.) Info for sports boxes due to Deric. Work on stories and layouts.
Friday 11-11 Story 2 due
Monday, 11-14 Story 3 due. (Deadline for final story and all revisions)
Wednesday, 11-16 Layout
Friday, 11-18 Layout
Monday, 11-21 Final production (proofreading and corrections) day; fold in TiP?
Tuesday, 11-22 Trojournal distribution (day before T-giving break)
Issue 2 (2016)Monday, 10-3
Pre-lunch - Budget meeting (generate second story and third for some)
Post-lunch - layout practice (personal layout practice pub)
Wednesday, 10-5 layout practice (personal layout practice pub)
Friday, 10-7 - story 1 due; work on story 2 interview questions
Monday, 10-10 Finish personal layout. Work on story 2. (Interviews complete?) Learn how to download photos by downloading photos of play and Beloit football. Choose photos to use in Trojournal and make a folder for them. Learn how to adjust colors in The Gimp (or other program) and do that.
Wednesday, 10-12 Story 2 due
As I evaluate stories, you will do the following:
* All - Make final tweaks to your personal layout and submit it on Classroom if it's ready. Make sure you have questions ready for your final story.
Olivia: Look at 3 or more previous November fun pages. Plan and work on November fun page. Be careful to avoid using copyrighted material without permission.
Taygan: Look at 3 or more previous photo spreads and then choose 7-9 photos for the "Dearly Beloved" photo spread and put them on the appropriate October InDesign page. I'll help you with layout. (We need to choose a dominant photo, make sure people are not facing off the page, make sure there is no internal trapped white space, make sure there is a standard one-pica space between all photos, etc.
Gwynn: Look at 3 or more previous October fun pages. Plan and work on October fun page. Be careful to avoid using copyrighted material without permission.
Deric: Work on "Time Out" and "Around the Halls." Get comments from the other staffers (if they haven't already provided them to you). Put FB and XC photo on sports page and caption. Update score box. Besides FFA, are there other Brag Board items?
Friday, 10-14 Personal layout due by end of block
Monday, 10-17 - 3rd and final story due; work on fun pages and photo spread.
Wednesday, 10-19 NO SCHOOL - PT Conferences
Friday, 10-21 First, revise all stories. Suggestions are still on the pages. Then complete lay out - Play photo spread (Taygan), October fun page (Gwynn), and November fun page (Olivia) due in final draft.
Monday, 10-24 Layout
Wednesday, 10-26 Proofreading, verifying correcting
Thursday, 10-27 Trojournal out to students (fold block 2 and 4)
Friday, 10-28 NO SCHOOL
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Issue 3 (2015)
Deadline week
Monday, 11-16 Field trip to thank those who don't get much thanks.
Wednesday, 11-18 All stories due. Lay out all photo pages and front page.
Friday, 11-20 Place all other stories.
Monday, 11-23 Proofread and correct.
Tuesday, 11-24 Hand out Trojournal at lunch. Block 2 English will fold.
Monday, 8-17
Field trip - Visit Gypsum High School and Burwick School and see approximate Susan Caldwell murder area.
Wednesday, 8-19
Deric - Create Ukraine map. Plan graphics for first and second issue. Start working on them. Create Ukraine bullet list. Create sports boxes for sports pages.
Jenni - Create templates and start laying out pp. 2, 3. Use old photos for around the halls. Create a story list on the wiki. Plan dummy for entire first issue with me. Work on story 1.
Hannah - Learn the following: Wiki use (Deric), navigating the hard drive (Jenni), newspaper archive (Mr. Mac). Sort and file old Trojournals. Find Nicole Russell story about Gypsum High School.
Friday, 8-22 See Trojournal dummy pages and continue staff assignments.
Monday, 8-25 Review plans for issue 1. Determine editorial topic for issue 1. iPad/Chromebook? Detail the look of the sports pages. Discuss using Cedar's graphic novel with a very brief story about the project for a double truck.
Continue work listed on Wednesday, 8-19. Write questions for one story and schedule an interview with the primary source. Let me know the planned time and place. Who will call Scott Nichols to set up the viewing of the Burwick school? Should we also interview his dad about Burwick and the Caldwell murder at the same time?
Wednesday, 9-2
Open to work. Arrange interview with staff for new staff feature. Finish pp. 2-3. Find Mrs. Roe's first name and call. Continue with previous tasks. Photos this week?
HW: Interview notes for one story. Be ready to write it Friday.
Monday, 9-8
Deric and Jenni gone. Both, send a story to meet today's deadline. Jenni, I'll send your edited editorial via EdModo today.
Hannah, work on schoolhouse story in class. See Mr. Settle in TIP for Spanish Club story. Download Jenni's photos. Choose xc photos and put them on InDesign page.
Monday, 9-15
Field trip to Nicholsons - interviews and photos.
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*Sign up for EdModo
* See Trojournal masthead on computer projector. What job do you want? Look here for labor divisions to see an explanation of duties and here if you desire an advance peak at the form we'll use to request a position.
*Intro how to navigate to and within the Google site. Intro how to log in to and navigate the Wiki. Allow everyone 15 minutes to explore the Wiki and Google site. Let each student add a comment on the Wiki on the "practice" page.
*Begin writing text for personal layout 1.
HW: Fill in job request. Finish writing text for personal layout.
Monday. 8-19
Turn in job request if you haven't already done so.
Brainstorm issue 1 of Trojournal.
* foreign lang trip?
* new teachers?
* students?
* sports features?
*etc.
Wednesday, 8-21 Continue InDesign instructions. Here is a link to my Christmas letter. It will allow you to see an example. Here is a link to the requirements for the project.
Revise your content for your publication.
Begin laying out content in InDesign.
Friday, 8-23 Demo how to proportionally fit a photo in a frame. Continue work on InDesign
Week 3
Monday, 8-26 Assign Trojournal stories for issue 1. See the Indesign Quick Tips youtube. Continue work on personal publication.
Wednesday, 8-28 Review all InDesign lessons.
* Creating a publication
* Changing units and increments to inches or picas
* Changing number of columns
* Setting rulers at the zero mark
* Adding invisible lines for alignment.
*Creating and editing styles
* Placing text with command-D shortcut and continuing text in another column.
* Creating a frame for a photo and placing it proportionally
* Creating a text wrap for a photo and adding .125 inch (or one pica) boundary.
* Creating a text-wrapped frame for a caption and adding a boundary.
* Creating a drop cap.
Friday, 8-30 Finish, print and turn in the finished personal publication.
Week 4
Monday 9/2 and Tuesday 9/3 No school
Wednesday, 9/4 See publicatioins on screen. See grading rubric for publications and revise. See newspaper design PPT. Write interview questions for story 1 and get them approved.
Friday, 9/6 Work on interview questions; Mr. M work with individuals on editorial and feature content and double truck
Week 5
Monday, 9/9
J1 - Read ch. 3 and take notes
Quentin and Cedar - Choose styles for Trojournal and check all pages with placeholder text. Then create templates for Sept. issue using the X-box tool.
HW: J1: Read ch. 3: What is News?
All: Finish and turn in personal layout. Write story. Due Wednesday.
Wednesday, 9/11 Story 1 due; discuss ch. 3
Friday, 9/13 Revise story 1; Story 2 due; quiz on ch. 3
Week 6
Monday, 9/16 lay out trojournal
Wednesday, 9/18 Add headlines and captions
Friday, 9/20 Publish Trojournal
Week 11
Monday10-21
After school and TIP plans - We're behind schedule and will need all available hands.
What stories are evergreen? We are adding a math story today.
Quentin - interview superintendent at 11:30 - see notes on EdModo
Cedar - math story; get quotes at lunch or sooner; post layout assignments.
Dariann - Put music to HC video and finalize video; Mr. McVay will be in to help.
Deric - place the HC photo and get it ready to Aurasma; continue with 6-7 layout
Abbey - feature due Wednesday
Graci - feature due Wednesday; is column completely ready?
Shayla - If volleyball and RRW stories are ready to place, find feature and begin for November.
Lexi - Is Jade (Salina Tech) story and ready to edit? Haven't seen it.
Kaylen - Do you have photos of everything you need - front cover? volleyball? football? cross country? mug shots? jade?
Tyler - Edit all sports stories; make them ready to place. Is the volleyball story ready?
Layout assignments same as last time. Cedar, post layout assignments.
J1 - make up quizzes 3 and 5
All stories ready for layout?
Week 12
Monday, 10-28
See assignments on Word document
Wednesday, 10-30 Trojournal out?
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Continue to prepare the futures book. Be prepared to assign issue 1 stories AND BE SPECIFIC on Monday.
J2 --
* Create folders on the P drive for all staff.
* Determine chapters/concepts that you would like to teach and create notes for your chapters/concepts.
* Create Trojournal first issue blank pages (with stories listed on the pages), including any font size and style shortcuts we might need -- body text, headline, caption, etc.
* Write your stories.
Read ch. 5, Interviewing. Prepare for quiz on ch. 5. J1 students: Take quiz on ch. 5 (open book). Do quiz 67 in pairs (It's not really a quiz; it's just an exercise to learn newspaper terminology and explore what previous SES journalists have done.) Choose a year from the online Trojournal archives and evaluate the first three issues from that year. Ask J II students when you don't understand a term.
J2 students: Continue tasks from Wednesday. Scan archives if you have spare time.
* Plan together a questionairre to ask student what they desire to see in The Trojournal.
Week 2
Monday, 8-20
Sign up for EdModo. Begin preparing a futures book - especially depth and "group journalism stories." Get outside with notebooks to plan outside the classroom.
J1-- Discuss interviewing with focus on writing interview questions.
Compile interview questions for Mr. Swisher feature and for Homecoming story. (Homecoming is on Sept. 21, and we'll update and use this story for The Trojournal. Scoop: There was a vote Friday to determine whether or not to sponsor a Homecoming dance this year. Students voted not to have a HC dance and not to have a BBQ.) Before wrting interview questions, discuss straight news leads and inverted pyramid style and discuss feature leads. Assign stories for issue 1.
HW: Read ch. 11: Feature stories.
Wednesday, 8-22 Sam, put issue 1 stories on Wiki. Interview Mr. Anderson (11:40-12:00). Interview Mr. Swisher (12:35 - 1:05). Work on Swisher story together in class.
HW: Write the first four paragraphs of the Homecoming story. If you need the recordings from today's interviews, click here.
Friday, 8-24 Discuss ch. 11. Work on Homecoming story during class.
HW: Finish Homecoming rough.
Week 3
Monday, 8-27 Interview Nicollette over lunch. Quiz ch. 11. Revise Homecoming, adding Nico comments. Work on the Swisher story together during class. Introduce InDesign. (Austin) Make layout practice assignment. Work on InDesign assignment for remainder of class.
HW: Finish the Mr. Swisher feature. Read ch. 6, News Story Basics. Write your interview questions for your first individual story.
Wednesday, 8-29 Field trip to Seims. Mr. Swisher feature due beginning of class. Test chapter 6. Introduce our electronic filing system for stories.
Friday, 8-31 Mr. Mac gone. Open to work.
* Story 1 due for first story deadline. Reminder: You also need to turn in a photo with this assignment. All students: Have your stories ready for me to look at this weekend. Put them in the September folder (Ask Austin if you need to know where that is.) and then send them to me via EdModo.
*HW for J1- Send stories via EdModo.
Week 4
Monday and Tuesday, 9-3 & 4 -- NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, 9-5 All staff - Before lunch: Get your first real story into the folder. After lunch: Austin, intro InDesign and give assignment. Assignment due Monday.
Friday, 9-7 Revise stories that have been edited and put them in the Sept. folder.
Week 5
Monday, 9-10 Finalize and turn in InDesign assignment. Open to finish story story 2. Have all interviews done in advance. Story 2 (if you were assigned one) due end of block. if you don't have a second story due, a proposal for a feature story for the features bank, along with interview questions, is due by the end of the block.
Wednesday, 9-12 Final drafts of all stories due.
Friday, 9-14 Begin layout.
Week 6
Monday, 9-17 Continue layout. Football story due.
Wednesday, 9-19 Volleyball and xc stories due beginning of class. (VB games/XC meet are the previous evening. Get interviews at the events so you can have the stories written, edited and placed by 10:45.) Proofread all pages and make corrections. Focus on headlines and captions.
Friday, 9-21 Trojournal #1 distribution. (Homecoming day.) Fold and distribute Trojournal.
Week 7
Monday, 9-26 No school - PT conferences
Wednesday, 9-28
1. Discuss next issue. Assign stories and set deadlines. Look over errors on issue 1 and discuss verification. 2. Mail issue 1. 3. Fill in grading guide. 4. Get publication online. 5. Discuss next field trip - where and why and when. 6. Write questions for first interview of second issue. 7. Austin - introduce personal publication.
Things that didn't happen when scheduled:ch. 3, ch. 6, intro personal pub.
Coming soon: ch. 11
Thursday, 9-29
Lexi - Get mailers out. Send email to Lori Blake.
All - 1. See Wiki for assignments.
2. Write questions for first story.
3. Discuss field trip and story "Inside the Pumpkin Patch." Should this be your photo spread rather than Red Ribbon Week or breast cancer awareness?? BBBS event doesn't happen until Oct. 19; how will you get photos since you put the issue to bed that evening? (We don't want photos of just jlsm students on a FT.)
HW: J1 - prep for ch. 3 and 6 quizzes for Monday. (Re-read the chapters.)
Issue 2
Monday, 10-1
Do your beginning routines.
All - Write questions for story 1.
J1 - Start layout practice, read ch. 6 for Wednesday quiz.
HW: Interview for one story. Read ch. 6 and take notes.
Wednesday, 10-3
Take ch. 6 quiz. Work on stories and layout.
Friday, 10-7 Story 1 due
Monday, 10-8 Write questions for haunted trail visit. Continue work on layout. Due Friday or before. Don't be late. Introduce personal layout assignment. Check next strory deadline on the Wiki.
Wednesday, 10-10 Field trip. Interview Pastor Feistner about the haunted trail. Story 2 due
Friday, 10-12 Work on stories and layout practice. Layout due end of class.
Monday, 12-2 Mailers. On-line. Video on-line. Story ideas. Main package.
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Monday, 10-15 NO SCHOOL
Wednesday, 10-17 Story 3 due
layout
Friday, 10-19 Complete layout
Monday, 10-22 Proofread and correct
Wednesday, Oct. 24 Fold and distribute paper #2
Issue 3
Friday, 10-28 New story assignments
Monday, 10-30 Questions due for story 1
Wednesday, 11-2 Sub - Work on stories
Friday, 11-4 Story 1 due
Monday, 11-7 Work on story 2 - 1st muscial dress rehearsal
Tuesday, 11-8 - First full musical dress rehearsal with hair done
Wednesday, 11-9 Story 2 due - Final muscial dress rehearsal
Friday, 11-11 Story 3 due
Monday, 10-14 No school (but basketball and wrestling practices begin)
Wednesday, 11-16 Begin layout
Friday, 11-18 Finish layout
Monday, 11-20 Fold and distribute and mail and put TJ online
(How will this deadline change affect your stories?)
11-23-27 Thanksgiving break
Issue 4
See Trojournal wiki
Issue 5
Friday, 1-4 Discuss and make story assignments. Introduce contest materials for Feb 21 regional contest. Fold and send exchange papers.
J1 - work on J1 personal pub guide. The new J1 deadline to have a copy of your publication hanging on the back wall will be Wednesday, 1-16. If you'd like to see an example of a practical publication, check out my "Christmas letter."
J2 - Austin, get templates ready. Sam, set deadlines. Abbey, assign photos for January.
Monday, 1-7 Krislynn, send mailers. All, finsish story assignments and put them ont the Wiki. See J2 notes for Jan. 4 and complete tasks.
Assignment: Choose contest categories and see Simply Better on the wiki to see past contest winners. Prepare a list of reasons you think the 3A-4A entry in your category was a winner. Due end of block.
HW: Continue working on personal layout. Write interview q's for story 1.
Wednesday, 1-9 J1 personal publications due for approval at end of block.
Friday, 1-11 Story 1 due. Plan contest entries. See this link.
Wednesday, 1-16 All J1 personal publications due, hanging on board. Work on carry-in contests.
Friday, 1-18 Final story deadline.
Monday, 1-21 Layout
Wednesday, 1-23 Layout
Friday, 1-25 Distribute Trojournals.
PUBLICATION DATES: The Trojournal tentatively will be published nine times on the following days:
· Sept. 23, (Friday, Homecoming Day -- Ellsworth FB, home VB Tuesday, week of the Sept. 20 SES XC inv.; no school Sept. 5 and 6)
· Oct. 26 (Friday, 3 weeks after HC, Marion FB, 4 weeks before Nov. 10 &12 musical, regional xc next day; VB vs. Sacred Heart Tuesday, Oct. 18) Note: There is no school Monday, so we’ll have only Wednesday this week to put the paper to bed.
· Nov. 18 (Friday, week before T-giving break, week after musical, week of sub-state FB) - not much time after the October issue; do your features in October.
· Dec. 20 (Tuesday, the day before Christmas break and end of semester; BB at Ellsworth that night; wrestling double dual Thursday, Dec. 15.)
· Jan. 31 (Tuesday, last day of girls’ BB inv. is Friday, Jan. 27; SH BB night; contest prep month)
· Feb. 24 (Friday, first day of state wrestling, day after journalism contest at KSU. Day of Feb. 24/25 Winter Play. No school Feb. 6 or 10. You also have contest deadlines. Work ahead!)
· March 15 (Thursday, week after state basketball, day before spring break, NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, 2 weeks before March 31 regional music; 4 weeks before April 14 Prom)
· April 24 (Tuesday, 4 days before state music; BB, SB, track, golf that day)
· May 18 (Friday before end of school, senior commencement two days later, regional track that night, state golf Monday the next week; state so
ftball, baseball and track May 25 and 26)