Reflections from the Yearbook Editor

I think the theme for the yearbook should be a western theme for several different reasons. One reason is that there are many ways to incorporate this theme in our yearbook. There could be old time western looking fonts, or rusted pictures, or even and brown old backgrounds to give it the old time feeling. For the cover we could do something like putting one of the western buildings on the cover, such as a bar or store or even a church. We could also maybe include a horse and a cowboy hat because that is what the cowboys wore back then. This theme is also very unique. I looked up, on google, western theme yearbooks and only found one or two that even looked close enough to be considered a western theme yearbook. This is a very easy theme to

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.

To many freshman the first day of high school is the opening chapter of a new novel, a fresh start to a sometimes embarrassing middle school experience we would all just love to erase from our memories. August 13th, 2012 was the beginning of my four year long narrative at Cypress Bay High School. Despite my desperate desire to grow up, become an adult, and move far away from my parents for college all that did not seem possible because I had never previously attended a public school. I was struck with fear that I would not be able to adjust to the fast pace dynamics of a large high school.

Think about your experiences of writing at college. Which types of assignments have you found helpful in strengthening your writing skills? Where do you want to improve your writing? What’s the most useful advice you’re received that’s helped you improve your writing. Be as specific as possible.

2016, the year of change. My life suddenly turned upside down, inside out, and thrown all around. Over the whole year, I went through a multitude of events which helped me define myself.

“The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year” reflected my writing experience while I transitioned from elementary writer to a critical writer. Sommers and Saltz write, “freshmen need to see themselves as novice in a world that demands ‘something more and deeper’ from their writing than high school” (Sommers and Saltz 134). This line highlights the hardship that most students face when trying to write successfully. My earlier written works were much weaker than my current pieces because I often wrote for the sake of passing the class. While developing my writing, I focused on the new ideas that were introduced rather than limiting my argument to familiar techniques and ideas. Because of my new attitude towards writing, I began to demand

Lurking in the 83-degree weather of October is a classic high school theme. There are dozens of movies whose entire plot describes a high school homecoming. Homecoming rituals at my high school are very cliché; everything revolves around dress up week, the football game, and the (dreaded) dance.

Success is an outcome that people will struggle their whole lives for. Whether it be a sport like football, or a grade in a class like math, people will endlessly find ways to become successful in their lives. While most students have an interest in sports or academics, my interest for achievement lies within a different category; yearbook. Being on the River Bluff High School yearbook staff has become such a dominant and meaningful part of my life that I would feel incomplete if I did not share my story of success.

Did you know that according to “lifetouch.ca” over 52% of schools across Canada have a yearbook? Vincent Massey is apart of the 48% of schools that don’t get to look back on the memories and friendships that have happened throughout the years. In this paper I will argue that yearbooks are a great fundraiser, provides memories and gives a real-life lesson in journalism to the students on the yearbook committee.

As what seemed to be an almost non-existent summer comes to an end, I have had time to reflect on what I hope to accomplish during my last year roaming the halls of James E. Taylor High School. I picture the impossible calculus problems that I will be required to solve or the piles of books I will struggle to finish as my literature exams near, but one thing that I am truly enthusiastic about is service. Improving my grades had been my most important goal as I began my high school career, however as this draws to an end, I have come to realize that the one thing that will truly leave a mark and will hopefully inspire others is the service that I have given to my community. Through Key Club, I have not only made friendships and bonds that I

There’s four main seasons that occur throughout the year. I’ve always loved the saying “like the seasons we change.” When I hear this saying I like to think of a tree; how it can go from being a little sprout, to small tree with only branches, to being so full of life with colors and leaves everywhere. This tree withstands the scorching hot summers, the brutal cold winters and all of what is in between. This tree stands strong and continues to grow and mature through it all. I would compare myself to this tree as I have grown, and matured as well. Throughout my four years of high school I’ve changed just like the seasons.

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

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

“…As for all the seniors, I want you to challenge yourselves this year and don’t think you’re going to cruise through to graduation.”-Mrs. Smith, County High School. Although some seniors in high school refuse to take a hard schedule, I decided to take a challenging composition course my last year of high school and learned more than ever before from it. My teacher, Mr. Bacz, focused mostly on vocabulary, grammar, and how to right an essay. Each one of these subjects combined to give me a year of hard work, which eventually paid off.

     Through out life people go through so many hardships. Whether it be good or bad there is always something that comes out of the situation. One of the most exciting but yet scariest events would be graduation. For a lot of people, graduating from high school is a goal. It takes a lot of time and effort to achieve that goal. In the long run, it opens a lot of opportunities for people to succeed. Graduation is the end of high school, and the beginning to life.