your grade

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:

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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