Yearbook

Welcome to Media!

Media is an elective at Saint Philip Neri that is engaging, allows creativity, and great team building skills.

In this class students create our school yearbook, and learn effective ways to write, take photos, and communicate. Students use common core standards to learn the process of writing captions, stories, and or feature stories. Students will also have the ability to learn proper techniques on photo taking, as well as guest speakers that demonstrate how to capture photos and telling a story through photos.

Below is objectives of Media class:

Students will:

Create and design cover of yearbook. (This includes using graphic design, and collabortively working with each other as well as virtual artist via tele conference)

Layout design

Caption writing

Feature writing

How to use design equipment including software

Instruction on how to use photo camera to capture best photo possible

Collaborate as a team to enhance stories, ideas, as well as progress.

Common Core standards covered in Media:

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.1 Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.3 Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Anchor Standard RI.CCR.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

Grade Level Standard RL.8.6 Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

Grade Level Standard W.8.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

W.8.3.b Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, and reflection, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

Grade Level Standard W.8.5 With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.

Anchor Standard W.CCR.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

Grade Level Standard W.8.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple avenues of exploration.

Grade Level Standard W.8.8 Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

Anchor Standard SL.CCR.1 Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

Anchor Standard RL.CCR.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Anchor Standard RI.CCR.7 Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.

Grade Level Standard RI.8.7 Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

Grade Level Standard SL.8.2 Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.