Welcome to Yearbook!
Congratulations, you are now a student journalist, desktop publisher, photographer, student relations specialist, designer, advertiser and team member. Over the course of the next year, you will learn how to meet deadlines, work well with others, give and receive directions to and from your peers, use complicated computer software, cope with stress and produce a yearbook from designing the cover to distributing the final product. Yearbook class is so much more than just a class. We are a business. We have a product that we must market, sell and produce. Our product must be so appealing that students will spend over $80 to buy a book that have never seen and that does not exist yet.
Materials Needed:
The following will be provided for you:
Yearbook Press Pass
Yearbook Handbook
Classroom Policies:
Four basic behavior expectations:
1. Use respectful behavior when interacting with everyone
2. Be on time!
3. Keep your hands to yourself.
4. Comply with all rules in the student handbook.
Being on the yearbook staff is a privilege, if the above expectations are not met, you will receive a warning, followed by a parent phone call. Depending on the severity of the offence, a referral may be issued.
Classroom Procedures:
Phone Etiquette:
The yearbook phone is for business calls only. Do not make personal phone calls.
Do not use your cell phones in class.
Answer the phone with proper etiquette. “Yearbook Room 902, this is _____ speaking, How can I help you?”
WRITE DOWN ALL MESSAGES in message book.
Signing Out:
Students will receive a yearbook approved yearbook pass during the first week of school that will not be replaced if lost or stolen.
Do not leave the room unless you are wearing your yearbook pass.
Fill out the sign out sheet and move your magnet to the proper position.
You must return before the last 15 minutes of class
Do not interrupt a teacher during class for yearbook purposes.
When you return move your magnet to the IN position.
You may not sign out during the first 10 minutes or the last 15 minutes of class.
Conduct yourself appropriately and with dignity when you leave the room. You are a representative of Yearbook and your behavior is a reflection of me. You will lose all pass privileges if you act inappropriately.
Other Passes:
Yearbook is not the time for your personal errands. I will not allow you to go to any class for any other reason besides yearbook.
I will NOT write late passes for any students. NO MATTER WHAT.
Yearbook is not an excuse to get out of other classes. You cannot miss another class for yearbook without prior consent and approval from that teacher. Permission must be granted at least one class period in advance. Students may not interrupt class to ask the teacher’s permission.
Dismissal:
Store work in progress and tools in appropriate area. Do not leave materials out when you finish working. If any materials are left out at the end of class, I will confiscate them.
Do not remove yearbook materials from the room. Do not take spread folders or USB Flash drives home. Place these items in your mailbox.
I dismiss you, not the bell
Monday Meetings
Every Monday we will have a staff meeting with the following agenda
Editor Meetings:
Editors will meet bi-weekly after school
Grades:
Grades will be calculated in four different categories. Each category is a percentage of your final quarter grade. Each category is calculated by taking the total number of points you earned divided by the total number of points possible. Due to the nature of this class, each student’s total number of points possible could be different.
% |
Category Title |
Description |
Calculation |
5% |
Staff Skills |
|
Total Possible: 20 Points |
40% |
Deadlines |
|
Total Possible per Spread: 200 points Final Deadline 100 points Mini Deadlines 150 points Section, EIC & Advisor Deadlines Students earn wither 0 or 200 for final deadline Students earn either 0 or 20 on mini deadline in set of 7 Students earn either 0 or 50 on Section, EIC & Advisor Deadlines |
40% |
Work Product |
|
Total Possible per Spread 1250 points Calculated by points on evaluation checklists |
15% |
Other Assignments |
|
Total Possible: Varies per quarter. Obligations will be announced as the year progresses. Students will be required to sign up for two after school photo days per month. Students will be required to attempt to sell $500 worth of business ads. |
Staff Skills 15/20 75% x.05 = 03.75
Deadlines 450/900 50% x.40 = 20
Work Product 2200/2500 88% x.40 = 35.2
Other Obligations 275/300 91.6% x.15 = 13.74
72 % C
Sample Grade:Attendance/Missing Deadlines:
There are no excuses for missing a deadline – no matter how small a deadline may seem. Please be aware that our deadlines are based on the publishing company’s deadlines and have nothing to do with the school calendar. Your work may be due in the middle of midterms. Or you may have an assignment due in yearbook on the same day that you have tests in three other classes. In addition, the publishing company doesn’t care if you don’t feel good or that you didn’t feel like coming to school. If we miss a deadline our book may not print on time, which means it could arrive in July instead of in May. Fear not, you will have plenty of time to prepare. You will receive a yearbook planner and schedule of due dates for every deadline for this year.
Bonus Points:
Bonus points will be given to those students who work above and beyond the call of duty. To those students who stay after school to help others even when their work is done, who volunteer for extra assignments, or who take extra photographs just because.
Honors Criteria:
Every student has the opportunity to earn an honors credit for this course. However, it is not a guarantee. Additional expectations come along with the Honors Credit. The following list of requirements must be met in order to earn the honors credit:
Money:
The business aspect of this class will require you to work with money. Each staffer is responsible for learning how to fill out a receipt book and receipt envelop correctly (taught in class). On a sale day, there will be a pre-determined number of stations. Each station will have an assigned moneybox or envelope and an assigned receipt book. For every shift that a staffer works, he or she must be able to balance out the money collected and compare that to the record. For example, if the receipt book shows that you should have $300 dollars, then there should be $300 in the collection. If the money collected does not agree with the record, the students working the station must make up the difference. Balancing your record at every change of shift is imperative. The earlier a mistake is found, the faster we can fix it.
Economic Goals:
It cost $37,000 to produce last year’s yearbook. No money = no yearbook.
#1 To sell 250 pre-sale yearbooks. (100 more than last year)
#2 To raise $10,000 dollars in ad sales.
#3 To sell as many underclassmen picture packets as possible (Our goal is $5,000 profit.)
#4 To conduct other fundraising as necessary.
We want to be able to attend CSPA in NY this year and to buy new equipment for yearbook. With out money we can’t do these things.
Yearbook Handbook Signature Page
I have read the requirements & grading procedures for yearbook. I understand and
acknowledge these requirements and procedures as they pertain to my quarter grades in this
class.
X__________________________ _______________________
Student Signature Print Student Name
I have read the requirements & grading procedures for yearbook. I understand and
acknowledge these requirements and procedures as they pertain to my son/daughter’s quarter
grades in this class.
X__________________________ _______________________
Parent Signature Print Parent Name