It is expected that students will:

• Use a variety of strategies before, during and after composing yearbook pages.
• Demonstrate how to compose short concise paragraphs that answer the five W's of publishing.
• Be able to compose thoughtful, meaningful captions for photos in the yearbook using the five W's of publishing.
• Meet deadlines imposed by yearbook publishing company and/or the instructor.
• Demonstrate the principles of good photography.
• Use appropriate publishing terminology.
• Respect photography subjects right to privacy
• Apply appropriate strategies for locating and using information from a variety of sources.
• Demonstrate efficient note taking strategies
• Practice good ethical and moral values when interviewing and reporting events and personal experiences to be published in WCV's yearbook.

Planned in order to meet the learning outcomes listed in the left column. Students will be given a multimedia demonstration with verbal explanation by the Instructor as needed. Students are encouraged to collaborate to solve problems. The instructor is available to prompt, answer and suggest solutions as needed. Problems presented often have many "right" answers and individual expression is encouraged. Each exercise includes a list of criteria that allows a student to demonstrate his/her level of proficiency.

20% of the grade is attendance. If you miss a class, you must make up your time after school or during seminar.
10% of the grade is outside assignments in the form of picture taking and/or interviewing
20% of the grade is class participation, students receive 5 points per day for working on yearbook activities, if they choose to spend time on unrelated activities the points are taken away for that day.
10% of the grade is yearbook sales. Each student will be expected to sell 8 yearbooks.
40% of the grade is accuracy of final layouts
If a deadline is missed, one full grade will be deducted.

Class Procedures

• Students are expected to be on time.
• Students must ask permission to leave the room for any reason. If permission is granted, then the student must use the sign-out form and take their student handbook with them when out of the room.
• Students are expected to seek help from (in order of priority):
  1. Your Editor-In-Chief
  2. Fellow students
  3. The Instructor last, to help students build their confidence enough to become independent life-long learners who can seek out and find the information they need to accomplish any task they choose now or in the future.
• Due dates are not flexible. If a student misses a due date due to illness or other legitimate reason the work will be excused. Otherwise missed due dates will be marked as 0 (zero).

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