Joining The Yearbook Committee

I conducted an interview with a friend of mine to help my journalism class to create ideas for this year yearbook. My interviewee name is Xitlalic Salazar. She is a 10th grader at MAST @ Homestead. The interview took place in the school cafeteria on August 28, 2015. I mainly focus on asking her questions about how the yearbook should look inside and outside and the price of it.

I'm interested in becoming a member of the yearbook staff because it involves everything that I am passionate about. I enjoy group work, being social, and I love taking photographs and creating lifelong memories. I’ll be able to bring diversity to the yearbook committee. I will also be able to suggest many ideas to make the year book look much more vibrant than before. I’ve always dreamed of being in the yearbook committee and if I were to be accepted, I would put in many hours of hard work and dedication until the yearbook was complete.

High school Commencement in the United States is a tradition like no other. Every June, high school seniors dress in their Sunday best and head to the tried-and-true ritual. Parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles swarm to secondary institutions with their cameras in hand. With the sea of hats and gowns, the graduating class is unified and united. Over the recent decades, Commencements across the United States have incorporated cords and stoles. These emphasize both communal and individual achievements throughout students’ secondary education and their community. At Chisago Lakes High School (CLHS), these achievements are recognized at Commencement with a variety of cords. Students who participate in the National

As a co chair I had to motivate and guide my committee to finish the project on time and efficiently, and it turned out to be a success. Being the co chair in first quarter was challenging for having to figure out how to grade people and telling people what to do. As I got the hang of being a co chair my committee members began to trust me more and came to me to ask questions and advice during harsh times. By being a co chair it improved my skill of leadership and communication. Not only did I do this heart activity, but I worked an event to raise new student’s ability to approach other students and communicate better, ice-cream get-together. During this event I handed out ice-cream to new students to the district. I also sat down and got to know them by talking to them and trying to make them feel comfortable. The point of this event was to make the students meet new people and just have a conversation. During dance committee I worked on the Under the Sea dance. In order to plan and make the dance communication was important because we had to get laser tag and make decorations. In publicity I created posters for the events happening

When I first heard about students being able to join yearbook staff, my interest was immediately peaked. I knew that yearbook was my calling. I applied to be on the yearbook staff in eighth grade, but my application got denied. When I first read my disapproval letter, my heart sank. Disappointment was written all over my face. Right then and there I wanted

Creating a yearbook has a lot more to it than one may expect. At first, I thought it’d consist of taking lots of photos, using a creative mind, and good writing skills. I wanted to contribute by doing all of these things and using the best of my ability as well. I looked forward to taking plenty of clear photos, writing good captions and making clever headlines since I’m good with words and I wanted to go out and be more social.

Freshman year of high school was a scary, but an exciting time. Going into a new building with new teachers and three other grades is terrifying. But this story is going to talk about my most memorable moment: getting my letter and being accepted into Freshmen Academy Honor Society. Winter of early 2014, i got my letter in the mail about being eligible to apply to be in Freshman Academy Honor Society. Which shocked me, but it also made be happy. It showed me that I’m capable of a 3.0 GPA or even higher.

However, just one accomplishment like that is simply not enough for the American population. Some students try too hard, by participating in school events and making good grades, just to get the attention they do not deserve. So, the people have spoken, and in several school systems across the United States, everyone obtains equal representation in the yearbook. If one person is mentioned five times, every student is mentioned five times. Of course, this rules out any racial, gender or sexuality bias caused by the creators of the yearbook, but that is not the important part of this tremendous change. The importance of equal representation is to get the students who truly deserve fame, those of who could not care less of school and their low standard morals, their rightful place in the yearbook. Their participation in the school, which could be considered null, is the most inspirational and moving part of the school systems, and represents each system with

This page shows the yearbook staff doing their work and posing for the camera. The color choice was cool.

Yearbook Staff (August 2012- May 2013 & Spring 2015- May 2016). Having been involved with Yearbook in middle school; I furthered my

With the city of Claremont growing, there was a need to educate the youth that inhabited the newly developed city. In 1890 Sycamore was the first school to open its doors, though at the time it was referred to as Claremont Grammar School (Wright 90). The next school to open in Claremont would be Claremont High School, officially opening in 1911 in a student body of around 120 people. Its first publication of the school Yearbook, El Espirirtu (then called “Annual”) would be in 1912, sparking a near one hundred year tradition of recording history. With weak bindings, black and white pages and only about 40 pages worth of content, the first yearbooks were dismal at best. A look inside of the early books would reveal a lot about how Claremont operated and why it was like it

This writer returned to the KUSD high school yearbook class later in the semester. This observer arrived before the start of the class period to discuss where the class was at in terms of completing the yearbook and meeting their deadlines. The cooperating teacher sighed and explained, “December is when this class needs to kick it into high gear. As soon as the holidays are over, all of our deadlines crawl out of the woodwork.” The bell rang, and less than ten students trickled into the classroom from lunch, and the teacher immediately started delegating tasks and alerting students of what needed to be accomplished during the class that day. Most of the students headed to their computers and began working on their assigned pages; some students left the classroom to take pictures, or to get quotes. A student approached the teacher about a college admissions essay that they had sent her for review and she assisted the student in editing it. This took ten minutes, and once completed she said, “Alright, can I get back to working on the yearbook now?” The teacher then began to walk around the classroom to check the children’s pages and correct any errors that were immediately present. She reminded certain students to check their grades, and then said to the class at large, “Don’t bitch at me if you get an F, because you need to get your ads turned in!” Some students laughed, but others looked unsettled. A student complained about another student’s work and the teacher agreed. A student said that she was going to fake a quote for a caption and the teachers

The title “Windsor Harbor Yearbook staff” more or less reveals that this group works on the high school's yearbook. Being a part of the staff may seem like an easy task, however these individuals have responsibility than one may think. Other than creating a yearbook, the staff’s obligations include getting appropriate photos, making sure everyone can be included in the book, and interviewing students and teachers.

That summer I attended the Gettysburg Yearbook Experience in Pennsylvania to begin next year’s yearbook. My editor team and I were split into classes based on what

I was also involved for three and a half years in a student government club on campus. In this club I learned many life lessons. One of which was the value of hard work. I was one of the few people that organized the Junior/Senior Prom of 2000. My responsibilities included planning corranation, buying and organizing decorations, planning the busing schedule, booking the photographers, fundraising, ect. This taught me about hard work. But the best part of it was going to Prom knowing I was one of the only reasons that it happened.