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Future Guidelines – Letter to Future Staff Members

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Time for a treat

A freewrite means you write and never pick your pencil up from the paper, letting whatever flow out of your mind. You don’t stop and edit, don’t worry about capitalization or punctuation, stay on topic or not!

Up to your brain to take you where it wants to go.

Freewrite: spring

DAY 1 – 4/14

LETTER TO FUTURE STAFF MEMBERS

We are going to make a video and a scrapbook for future staff members.

Today, you will begin the assignment on page 208.

Draft your letter following the outline on page 209, but do it on a separate sheet of paper.

Submit rough draft to be checked by Ms. Palma before typing final draft.

Future Guidelines – Type and Submit Final Draft

A Personal Touch

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Time for a treat

Answer the following questions in complete sentences about the yearbook this year.

1.What section do you think turned out the best and why?

2.What could we have done better?3.What did we do really well?4.If you could change one thing

about the yearbook for next year, what would it be?

DAY 2 – 4/16

FUTURE GUIDELINES

Type your final draft of your letter to future staff members and upload it to Edmodo as a WORD DOCUMENT, named as follows: block, last name, first initial, underscore, letterExample: 7andersond_letter.doc

When you are finished, complete the Personal Touch Interview. Go to the lunch room to find someone to interview. If you do not finish in class, this is homework.

Taming the Tomahawk Video Project Part I

Due: Personal Touch

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Looking ahead…


1.Why does the yearbook matter?2.What will this year’s yearbook

mean in 10 years?

DAY 3 – 4/20

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PART I

Intro: What Yearbook is and What Yearbook is Not

Part I: A Day in the Life of a Yearbook Staff

Part II: How to Create a Terrible Yearbook (what to avoid)

Part III: How to Create a Quality Yearbook (what to do)

Conclusion: Carry the Tomahawk (why does what we do matter)

5 Teams

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PART I

Each Team needsMinimum of 2 actors1 producerPolished script

Determine TeamsToday: Setting the Stage

Determine your roles.Outline your script. Be detailed.

5 Teams

Taming the Tomahawk Video Project Part II

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Looking ahead…


1.What does a video script need to be entertaining to viewers?

2.What are the main points your team is going to cover in your script?

DAY 4 – 4/22

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PART II

Log in to Edmodo and download the Storyboard Template

Compose your script. You have the rest of the block. Have 1 person in your team submit the script in Edmodo. Print 1 copy.

Today: Finalize the ScriptType your script. Include descriptions of props and action.

Taming the Tomahawk Video Project Part III

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Looking ahead…

You walk into the classroom and your teacher is missing. No one knows where she is or what happened to her.

Write a descriptive story explaining her disappearance. Be creative and original!

DAY 5 – 4/24

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PART III

Get your printed script. We will “Round Robin” trade

the scripts. Your team will spend 18 minutes revising and editing each of the other team’s scripts.

Today: Full Staff InputGroups will trade scripts and offer additions and deletion.

Peer revising and editing to make scripts high quality.

Taming the Tomahawk Video Project Part III-IV

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Looking ahead…

A freewrite means you write and never pick your pencil up from the paper, letting whatever flow out of your mind. You don’t stop and edit, don’t worry about capitalization or punctuation, stay on topic or not!


Freewrite: time

DAY 6 – 4/28

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PARTS III-IV

Get your printed script. We will “Round Robin” trade

the scripts. Your team will spend 18 minutes revising and editing each of the other team’s scripts.

Filming for ready teams.Be sure you have all props and copies of your script.

Film your set.

Taming the Tomahawk Video Project Part IV

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Looking ahead…

Copy the quote into your journal, then answer the questions that follow.

“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” – Robert J. Sawyer

1. What does this quote mean to you?2. Do you agree or disagree? Why or

why not?3. Can you think of an example of this in

action?

DAY 7 – 4/30

TAMING THE TOMAHAWK PARTS III-IV

Filming for remaining teams. Be sure you have all props and copies of your script.

Film your set.

Self and Peer Evaluations .Write a brief essay summarizing the role you played in your team, the grade you think you deserve, and why your segment of the film is important.

Below your essay, rate your team members on a scale of 1 to 5, with five being they deserve a 100 and 1 being they deserve a 25.

•Edit the film•Reflection #1

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Today, in yearbook…

Copy the quote into your journal, then answer the questions that follow.

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.” - Arnold Newman

1. What does this quote mean to you?2. Do you agree or disagree? Why or

why not?3. Can you think of an example of this in

action?

DAY 8 – 5/4

TIME TO BEGIN REFLECTING

Reflection #1Choose what you consider to be your most

significant piece of work for the publication this year. Write a complete analysis of why this is your best work.

Include: your purpose and how easy or diffi cult it was to complete, and how the work evolved from first effort to published piece. Make specific references to the process you went through in creating this piece and to anything you learned as you went along. Discuss what you particularly like about the finished product. Be specific.

•Staff Meeting•Individual Assignments

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DAY 9 – 5/6 A freewrite means you write and never

pick your pencil up from the paper, letting whatever flow out of your mind. You don’t stop and edit, don’t worry about capitalization or punctuation, stay on topic or not!


Freewrite: freedom

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Begin planning section

New Posters with new pricesHand out order forms in cafeteria during all 3 lunches

You’ve Been Tagged continuesIf you don’t have an assignment, complete the “5 W’s” on a current news article from nytimes.com

-Staff meeting-Individual Assignments

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Copy the following story starter into your journal, then finish the story!

Thunder clapped against the sky. The girl shuddered. She knew something was out there in the night. Something that shouldn’t be…

DAY 10 – 5/8

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Begin designing section (team pics today)

Plan Prom coveragePut up new posters with new pricesHand out order forms in during all lunches



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Darn it! He should have known better. Now the cops were going to know where to find him…

DAY 11 – 5/12

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: get quotes/interviews

Begin prom spreadHand out order forms in cafeteria during all 3 lunches



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He had been rich all his life. He didn’t know any other way. Staring down at his dirty hands, he wondered how his life had gone to hell.

DAY 12 – 5/14

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Get captionsProm: captions, articleHand out order forms in cafeteria during all 3 lunches



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Answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. What is your favorite color and why?

2. Why might people not like your favorite color?

3. If you had to describe your favorite color in one adjective, what would it be?

DAY 13 – 5/18

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Cameron/Asia joining team. We have new pictures. Assign tasks.

Prom: design spreadGraduation: plan all content/interview.

Hand out order forms during lunches



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1. What is your middle name? Do you like it? Why or why not?

2. If you could change your first and/or middle name, what would you have named yourself? Why?

DAY 14 – 5/20

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Cameron/Asia joining team. Finish Softball and Track by Friday

Prom: name checksGraduation: plan all content/interview.

Hand out order forms during lunches


Yearbook PartyState of Play Movie

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ENJOY THE MOVIE!

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Finish softball/track today

Graduation: plan all content/interview.



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DAY 15 – 5/29 A freewrite means you write and never

pick your pencil up from the paper, letting whatever flow out of your mind. You don’t stop and edit, don’t worry about capitalization or punctuation, stay on topic or not!


Freewrite: summer

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Add team captions and submit Softball and Track

Graduation: write article for spread



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1. What’s one goal you’d like to accomplish during your lifetime?

2. When you were little, who was your favorite super hero and why?

DAY 16 – 6/2

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Finish Boy’s and Girl’s Soccer - submit

Graduation: write second sentence for captions.

If you don’t have an assignment, complete the “5 W’s” on a current news article from nytimes.com


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1. Describe a unique or quirky habit of yours.

2. What are your pet peeves or things you really dislike?

3. If you had to describe yourself using three words, it would be:

DAY 17 – 6/4

Today is the last Power-Up. You should have 17 entries. You are responsible making up entries for days you were absent.

STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Finish Baseball and Tennis. Submit pages.

Graduation: write a list of the pictures you need for the spread. Include orientation.


-Individual Assignments-Senior Exam Day-No Power-Up

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STAFF MEETING

Sports Team: Whatever we need to submit late page today! Everybody on board.


Seniors: If you are not exempt, today you must complete your semester exam. Please follow the directions.

-Semester Exam for Non-Exempt Students

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SEMESTER EXAM

First: Complete your essay.Second: If anything remains to be done for the supplement, work together to complete it. Everything should be ready, including general captions, except for the photos from graduation.

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