Your grade each week is determined by your work individually and as part of a group. You should document the work you do using a time sheet. There are also grades for page deadlines.
If you want to make an "A", you must work on and complete pages and complete them correctly. You earn the opportunity to work on pages. If we can depend on you to complete pages correctly and on time, you may be assigned additional pages. If you are not dependable, you will not be assigned additional pages. This means that your grade will be a "B" or less. If you do not do pages and you do not contribute to the yearbook, your maximum grade will be 70.
I use the rubric below to determine your grades based on standards.
Yearbook Weekly Grading Rubric
4 (100-93) Advanced performance of standards. Work is documented.
3 (92-85) Proficient performance of standards.
2 (84-75) Basic performance of standards.
1 (74 and below) Below basic performance of standards
0 No work completed
Time sheets should be completed each week and kept in your folders.
Journalism (3008): Grades 9-12
Content Standard:
The student will understand and utilize oral,
written, and visual communication.
Goal Statement:
The primary goal of any journalism program
should be for students to improve oral and written
communication skills. Many high school students
seek opportunities to explore career possibilities in the
media. Journalism programs should offer
students many opportunities to excel in a variety of areas.
Learning Expectations:
Oral
• Demonstrate speaking, listening, and research skills which will
facilitate interviewing and other
oral communication activities.
• Demonstrate appropriate language skills, demeanor, and attire to
cultivate success and good
public relations.
• Demonstrate
appropriate interviewing techniques.
• Apply terms and
expressions common to the industry to speaking, listening, and writing
activities.
• Apply legal and
ethical journalistic standards to all journalism activities.
Written
• Demonstrate
appropriate language usage skills and research techniques.
• Demonstrate
appropriate journalistic writing style for various media.
• Recognize the
difference between fact and opinion and its appropriate use in media
production.
• Use computers (if available) to compose, edit, and revise work for
publication.
• Write for an intended
(prescribed) audience, recognizing the importance of ethics in information
gathering and reporting.
• Demonstrate editing
and revision techniques to produce work suitable for publication/
production.
Visual
• Exhibit a working
knowledge for roles and procedures of management and production of various
media.
• Demonstrate knowledge
of business management including advertising, circulation, and/or
bookkeeping procedures.
• Understand and utilize
standard principles of related areas to enhance visual appeal.
• Create visual effects
by utilizing graphic designs, either technologically generated (if available)
or original work.
• Demonstrate knowledge
of layout and design procedures by incorporating consistency of style
using a desktop publishing system (if
available), traditional methods, or a combination of both
techniques.
Note: These learning expectations
for journalism reflect student performance requirements for grades 9-
12. Students in grades 6-8 may participate in
programs with similar learning expectations with minor
adaptations.
Yearbook grades for pages
Missing deadlines and incorrect pages:
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Missing deadlines and incorrect pages:
Missing a deadline will result in a grade of 50 for each page assigned.
Yearbook
Pages Grade
Page
number________Name___________________________________________________
Due
date______________Date turned in________________
____Page is completed
by assigned deadline. 50 points possible. 0 points for missing deadline.
____All photos are
correctly exposed. 10 points possible. 2 point deduction for each error or
correction.
____All photos are in
focus. 10 points possible. 2 point deduction for each error or correction.
____Page layout
completed correctly. 10 points possible. 2 point deduction for each
error or correction.
____Photos are
well-cropped and positioned in picture box. 10 points possible. 2
point deduction for each error or correction.
____All copy and
typography is correct. 10 points possible. 2 point deduction for each
error or correction.
_______Total score
If page is late,
explain why:
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