Imagine A YearBook!

This assignment is to be completed for Monday Sept. 8. It will be checked at the beginning of class (so have it printed/written ready to hand in), and we’ll use your ideas in our first planning session.

1. Before looking at any other yearbooks, come up with 2 or 3 new features/sections you’d like us to consider. Don’t include existing sections and features – I want new and unique ones, such as a page on pets, an interview with a disabled student, a cartoon that runs in the corner of every page. Use your imagination and think what would make a memorable, exciting unique yearbook.

2. Comb through last year’s yearbook and list things you think we could drop – whole sections, page features, whatever (see also #3)

3. Comb through last year’s yearbook and list ways to improve things – e.g. adding stats to sports, getting pics of clubs in action, captions for random pics, specific changes to layouts/page order, etc. Do a thoughtful job of this part, because we will make some of these changes. You should have at least 6 thoughtful items here, with a sentence or two or a sketch for each.

4. Think about which of the following areas/positions you’d like to work in, and which of the skills below you think you’re strong in (you should have several). I will be asking for formal applications for Editor early next week, and we’ll figure out who will work on and be in charge of what parts of the Yearbook.

5. Visit our class website, just so you know where it is. It will be updated soon! http://www.aurorahigh.ca/jmartin/Yearbook/Index.htm