One staple of the high school years for students is the yearbook. The yearbook comes out at the end of every year to bring highlights and memories from the past year for students to relive. It takes a lot of time and effort to put together all the segments and parts of the yearbook, allowing the end product to allow the hard-working students of the class to reflect on their work.
Diving deeper into the process at Green Level, it begins with the theme of the yearbook. With last year’s theme being scrapbook, this year’s theme is Golden Era.
The process of deciding the theme for the yearbook is an extensive one, where students take multiple steps to select the highly anticipated theme for the yearbook.
Ms. Weeks, an English teacher here at Green Level, is also the instructor of the yearbook class. Weeks explained how the process works for the students.
“During the spring semester, they do some brainstorming. They look up different themes, narrow down the ideas, and then build out different sample themes,” Weeks said. “They essentially make five different presentations of the yearbook themes, and then we vote.”
After the theme is chosen, students then start creating the separate pages for the book. These pages each have a different topic of focus, whether it’s focused on a club, a sports team, or just a fun question. This part is where the majority of the class is focused on, as it is a long process to fill up all the pages.
Weeks also explained that their class has “a ladder” that lays out what needs to be completed by the students.
“It has the schedule of the pages of what’s on each page, who’s responsible for each page, and when each page is due,” Weeks explained. “The students then have their assignments and work on their pages.”
Each page includes interviews from different students around the school to get various opinions on the topic. Students are usually asked a couple of questions about the topic the page is about.
Once a student is put in the yearbook for an interview or a sports team picture, they get tagged in the book. Students in the class are asked to interview students who have fewer than three mentions in the yearbook already. This allows different students to be accounted for in the yearbook, so everyone can be represented.
The whole process of the yearbook is a long and hard process, but also a very fun and enjoyable process. Many students are looking forward towards the end of the year to see what the yearbook staff created for the school this year.
