Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Sports Action Photos

Photo 1
Who: Yoni
What: Running to get to class
Where: at Akins
When: today 3rd period
Why: to not be late
How: in a hurry

Yoni runs in a hurry to get to his third period on time at Akins High school. 
When he was on his way to 3rd period, Yoni was interrupted by a friend, causing him to run the rest of the way to class.


Photo 2
Who: Gabi
What: sees her friend
Where: in the courtyard
When: after school
Why: to hug her
How: really fast and happy

Gabi sees her friend and runs quickly to hug her after school in the courtyard. 
Gabi had just got done with a big Biology test and needed someone to talk to it about. 


Photo 3
Who: John
What: Poses for football picture
Where: at the park
When: evening 
Why: to be in the yearbook
How: he just stood

John poses eagerly in the park for the football picture that will go in the yearbook.
Before he came to the park, he had on all his football uniform, but then he took it off for the picture.


Photo 4 (Normal)
Who: Yoni and Gabi
What: Walk to the lunch benches
Where: in the courtyard
When: during B lunch
Why: Because they need somewhere to sit
How: calmly

Yoni and Gabi calmly search for a seat on the benches in the courtyard during B lunch. 
When they were in the lunch line, all of the seats inside had been taken up, leaving only the seats outside in the courtyard.

Photo 4 (Grayscale)


Thursday, May 9, 2013

Student of The Month Interview

20 Questions: (Answers in italics)

1.) Is student of the month an accomplishment to you?
Yes, because i like to succeed in my work to make my parents proud.

2.) What do you have to do be a student of the month?
Get good grades and act appropriate in class.

3.) Are there any special things that happen when your the student of the month?
Teachers show more gratitude towards you.

4.) Have you ever been student of the month before?
No.

5.) What do you plan to do when/while your student of the month?
Keep up all the good work.

6.) Does everyone know about this or only faculty?
Everyone knows about me being Student of The Month.

7.) Have you told anyone else about it?
Yes, I've told all of my friends.

8.) Whats your favorite thing to do at home?
Just chill with my friends and eat.

9.) Can you tell me more about what happens when your Student of The Month?
You get to go in line in the cafeteria first.

10.) Whats your favorite thing to do as student of the month?
Eat everything. 

11.) How do you feel about Student of The Month?
Im proud of it.

12.) Did it change anyones view of you?
People think I'm a nerd, no one believes I'm as smart as i really am.

13.) Has it changed your view of anyone else?
I didn't think that i would make it, so i guess i thought everyone was smarter. 

14.) Has a teacher ever acknowledged that your Student of The Month?
Yes, when the teacher said it over the announcements. 

15.) Does that make it awkward or is it okay?
Its alright. 

16.) Do you know anybody else who has been Student of The Month?
Yeah, one of the kids in my class.

17.) What is your favorite class?
Wrestling.

18.) Why is this your favorite class?
Because i get to be myself and do my thing, beat people up. 

19.) Do you plan on getting Student of The Month next month?
Well see, but for now i can only hope.

20.) Who is your favorite teacher?
My favorite teacher probably has to be Ms. Mayfield. 


Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Assignment #1

3 Different Sources: 
- School Board
- School (Principal/AP)
- Students

20 Questions:
1.) Why did this change happen?
2.) Who contributed to the change?
3.) Is there any room for input to the change?
4.) On a scale from 1-10 how good do you think this change is?
5.) Why did you rate it what you rated it?
6.) What do you think will happen 2 years from now after the change?
7.) What do you think you would update to the change?
8.) Do you think it might affect you drastically or slightly in any way?
9.) How do you know that this change is the right/wrong thing to do?
10.) Do you think it will affect you in a financial way?
11.) How much do you expect to spend on a uniform if the change happens?
12.) Should the school be allowed/required to sell you the uniform?
13.) Do you think it will cause a rebellion of any kind?
14.) How much money do you think the school will get if they sell the uniforms?
15.) Is it fair that only the teachers and faculty also have to wear a uniform?
16.) Should you get in trouble if you do not wear the uniform?
17.) What should be the consequence if you don't wear the uniform?
18.) Do you think this is a big or small responsibility?
19.) Should different grades get different uniforms?
20.) Should you be able to stop uniform say for a day or week with a pass?

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Newspaper Notes

3 Styles of Newspapers

News Magazine - Almost always have a glossy front and back cover. 8 and a half by 11. Kind of like a magazine. Might have some text, but no stories.

Tabloid - Newsprint and small. A tabloid will have 2 or less stories, sometimes even none. 

Broadsheets - Wide/Big and they, on average, have 3 to 4 stories. 



List of Elements

- Main headline (The Flag and included with it is the Folio.)

What appears in the Folio? School name, Newspaper Motto, Website, City and State, Volume and Issue number, Date, Teasers. 

- Categorized stories  
- Name of the author of the story, and their position. 
- Page locations 

Whats appears in the Caption? Caption head, Photographers name, Actual Caption.

- Headline 
- Sub Headline 

What is a jump? A story that starts one place, and jumps to another place.

What appears in a jump? Should have the page number and a little headline.

- Line between stories
- Graphics and who did the graphics. 
- Kicker (Kicks off the story.) 
- Table of contents 



Opinions Page

What appears in a Mast Head? Vertical Line, Organizations, Awards, Editorial Policy, Staff Box.




Editorial Policy

It is your power, it states that this is your open form of student expression. For example, if you felt you had too many tests and wanted to organize students to boycott school, you might get ISS. But if your on our newspaper staff and you were to write an opinions piece and you called a meeting after school hours, you could do that.

You would have to discuss it, but there is a chance it will be published. It doesn't go to anyone except Mr. Reeves and he doesn't even censor you. If you can convince him then you can run whatever you want to run. They avoid bias and/or favoritism.

In case someone wants to write a letter to the editor you can, because they have the address and email. 

Friday, April 19, 2013

Front Pages of The World

1.) My favorite Newspaper front page out of all of the newspaper front pages i looked at was Stars and Stripes - MidEast Edition. The reason i chose this one was because it didn't have too many words, which makes you want to look inside and buy it, also because the headlines are big and captivating, and it has a bold and major photo that was well taken in the front of it, drawing more attention to the newspaper. 

2.) My favorite headline on here is "Broken Trust" because it has that human interest news value in it and it makes me want to read it.


3.) The newspaper front page has 2 stories.

4.) All of the newspapers generally have big headline, and a big photo, which is what i think is what people want to see or know about. Then after that they mostly all have little stories, that don't give away too much, letting you know just enough to let you make the decision of if you want to buy it.

5.) Some things that change are the size of the stories, and how many. Most of them had a good amount  of them, but some of them had way too many. They were very overwhelming and distracting.