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The Student Life frequently opens the book. It is the most flexible, usually the most interesting and the most fun to design.
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• What new courses have been offered this
• Current events that shape students’ world locally, nationally or worldwide
The Student Life section includes:
• How are different class levels going to be arranged? (Honors, AP, Special Education)
The staff can arrange the section by identifying topics that encompass multiple academic areas, including skills, content coverage, historical time periods, labs, hands-on activities, presentations, communications, experiments, field trips and more.
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• How could you group the Academics section with spreads focused on presentations, labs, hands-on activities, study groups, field trips and performances?
Consider these questions:
Photographically, this form of coverage allows for a variety of photos from varied academic areas, rather than a spread full of photos of students sitting at desks or at computers. Coweta High School • Sharpsburg, GA Academics Scholarships and faculty
• Traditional events like summer, homecoming, spirit week, pep rallies, spring break, prom, powder puff and graduation
• Other topics may include friendship and dating, volunteerism and diversity goes into each section? Academics Academics is the most important section of the book, because education is the purpose of school. Consider academics to be the student life of theTheclassroom.academics section does not have to be organized by department or class, but should represent the entire curriculum.
• Focus on the student life of the classroom.
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• Trends in fashion, music, technology and entertainment
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• Should have a group shot, as well as a season scoreboard, for each team.
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• Plan to cover sports fans, managers and trainers.
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Sports After Student Life, Sports is among the most-read sections in the book. This section shows the tensions, the competition and the dimensions of all sports. As an adviser, encourage your staff to make gender equality a priority when creating a ladder diagram for sports. Remember to include all teams, from freshmen to varsity, managers and all coaches. Section content Sports coverage:
• Determine how you will cover JV and varsity teams. Will they be grouped together? Will varsity teams have their own spread? Will JV boys and girls be grouped together?
• Tell the story of the only game a team won or lost, or the dramatic moments in close games with rivals.
• Describe what it was like to get across the goal line or to make the winning free throw. Coweta High School Sharpsburg, GA Sports Girls’ Volleyball Lacrosse Content
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• Look for a record-breaking feat – whether offensive or defensive – one fans talked about for days.
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• Can be laid out chronologically by the school calendar. • Covers the highs and lows of each season.
• Profile players who exceeded expectations.
While traditional coverage includes photos, copy and captions, secondary coverage modules allow yearbook staff to tell the students’ stories in multiple ways with different angles. Modules allow the staff to cover more students who may not be on a team or in a club, as well as more topics that may not deserve an entire spread. There’s no limit to the number of secondary modules that help yearbook staff tell stories. When possible, add a theme-related headline to tie each module either to the theme of the book or the theme of the section. The Secondary coverage modules staff may choose to design several modules to use throughout the book or design particular modules for each section. Secondary modules include: • Featured quote with accompanying photo • Series of personality face shots with names and idents • Quote areas/personal narratives • Photo essays with captions • Scoreboards • Statistical factoids • Mini-features • Personality profiles • Timelines/lists • How-to informational graphics • Question/answer modules • Tests/quizzes created by designer • Pie charts/bar graph informational graphics • Maps/diagrams/calendars • Step-by-step informational graphics • Numbered images with captions • Photo collections with captions • He said/she said contrasting opinions • Images linked to video stories: Syracuse Schools • Syracuse, KS Blended topics • Modules include cold-weather coping strategies, talented students and academics Academics • Secondary modules cover a variety of subjects in the school’s curriculum Coverage • 6 Content and
• Page one, the title page, falls on the right, as do all odd-numbered pages.
Using the ladder diagram
Think of it as a master project plan and the simplest way to see what is on each spread (the two facing pages in the book). Once you’ve created the ladder on paper, transfer it to the electronic ladder in the online program. Ladder Signaturesdiagramandflats
A ladder diagram is a chart that helps the adviser and staff plan the subject and location of each yearbook page.
• The ladder is shaded to show which pages are on each side of the flat and where the natural spreads are located.
Your book is printed in 16-page signatures with eight pages printed on one side of a large piece of paper and eight pages printed on the other side. In the diagram to the right, the pages in blue represent a flat and are printed on one side. The pages in white represent the flat printed on the other side. Once both sides are printed, they are folded several times, Smythe-sewn together and trimmed to form a 16-page booklet. When all signatures for the book have been printed, the signatures are glued together in correct order and bound with the cover and endsheets to form your yearbook. Where to find the ladder
• Even pages will always be on the left side.
• Determine the number of pages for each section using the formula on page 2 of this section. Leave those pages blank until section editors have planned the spread content.
The following ladder diagrams are available from •Lifetouch:Laminated poster to hang on the wall
• Electronic version on the Lifetouch Online Yearbooks website
• Identify signatures containing special colors (metallic ink) or clear-coating. These must fall within 16-page signatures. Extra charges will apply for each signature containing special inks.
• First, place the opening spread, division pages and closing spread on the ladder.
• After placing dividers, go to the end of the book and place parting page on the last page on the left side of the ladder. Working backwards, place the closing spread, then place the index, then add the ad Ladder planning and
Sample signature within the ladder diagram
Reading the ladder diagram
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• The ladder shows all facing pages in the book. Use it to plan the topics for your pages as double-page spreads.
