Sections
Covers activities in and out of school that dirrectly affect students' lives. It is a place to look at students as individuals, not as members of classes, clubs, or teams.
What is "Student Life?"
A diagram which shows the content planned for pages, on which even pages are displayed on the left and odd pages on the right.
What is a ladder?
Add information to photos, these can range from simply supplying minimal information for people in photos to serving as mini-stories.
What are Captions?
Our primary audience. Every one of them should be included in the yearbook at least 3 times if we can help it.
Who are Students?
This publishing company also offers letterman jackets and class rings. Started as a small jewelry store in Minnesota almost a hundred years ago, it's now one of the two biggest yearbook publishers in the United States.
What is Jostens?
Covers students, faculty and staff in photos that serves as a record of the school population. Often known as the "class section," and or "mug-shots."
What is a People Section?
A means of organizing content on pages based on an element of time, such as seasons or months.
What is Chronological?
These tell figures, facts or opinions in non-story style. They can be interactive formats of chronologies. They could be quotes, quips, or survey or poll results.
What are "Infographics?"
Faculty and parents are also important and don't need as much attention while we're planning, but we can't ignore them.
What is a "Secondary Audience?"
This periodical that now features Senior Interviews as a supplemental section of the 'Mapleton PRESS' was once printed separately as MVAO's school newspaper. This year, we're considering using portions of their interviews in our Senior Section and maybe even as part of out cover.
What is the 'Ram Write-Up'?
Covers interscholastic competition and other athletic activities involving students
What is a Sports Section?
Groupings of pages that are printed on the same press sheet and follded into 16 page booklets, bound together they make up a whole book
What is a Signature?
Attract readers to stories and draw them into pages. Should contribute to the story and not merely take up space, not just a label.
What are Headlines?
These are what makes this year at this school unique and these are the things that your yearbook will bring back when you look through it years from now.
What are Memories?
The very nice lady that talked to us yesterday, who represents Jostens Yearbooks for Western Iowa.
Who is Coleen Aaronson?
Covers activities of school groups or club.
What is is an Organizations Section?
The most common allocation of space, two facing pages presenting a variety of elements to tell a story.
What is a Spread?
Tell the five W's & H in the most common form. They begin with short, catchy paragraphs featuring meaningful quotes and transitional paragraphs containing facts and figures.
What are Feature Stories?
Because it captures memories from our school year, a yearbook is kind of like a treasure chest that they burry in the cornerstone of a building which will be opened in a hundred years, preserving the history of a community.
What is a Time Capsule?
The theme for the 2024-25 'RamPages' Yearbook.
What is "Inside Scoop?"
Covers curriculum-related experiences wherever they take students.
What is an Academics Section?
(also called Flats) eight pages on one side of a press sheet.
What are Multiples?
A portion of a page or spread; can be displayed with other story modules on a spread to present different angles on the same topic.
What is a Content Module?
A universal idea, concept, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature, like a book, play or movie.
What is a Theme?
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