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Joining the Northwest Yearbook class will allow the students to edit, run, design, and produce the school's annual yearbook, the Silvertip.

Below is a picture of the staff taken with the 2002-2003 and the National Pacemaker Award they won for the book.

Usually students enrolled in Yearbook 1 are allowed to work on the People section of the yearbook. This section includes trivia, survey results, and funny quotes from your fellow students.

The Class:

Yearbook 2, 3, and 4 are mixed together in one class and usually share the same responsibilities. Some of the sections include:

Below is the latest yearbook with the theme "Any Given Day"

Sections of the Yearbook:

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Student Life: a section dedicated to the lives of the students outside of Northwest, including jobs, volunteering, and personal stories.
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Academics: one of the larger sections focused on the students in action, or learning in the classroom.
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Athletics: another major section which pinpoints the athletes and sports teams at Northwest. This section includes a variety of men and women's sports: swimming, baseball, golf, basketball, softball, etc.
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Activities: this section is focused on certain events at Northwest. The section includes Prom, Homecoming, Plays, etc.

If you would like to become the editor of the yearbook, you would have to be enrolled in the Yearbook 3 or 4 class, and have the qualifications of an editor.

If editing isn't your thing, you could also become the yearbook's photographer. Photographers, along with other yearbook students, take on photo assignments, shooting different sports, activities, and around school.

Producing a yearbook take time and effort, but also technology. Recently, the Journalism and Yearbook room received new iMacs and an upgrade of software to help the staff work more efficiently on their publications. In Yearbook and Journalism, you are instructed in all of the programs used to make the yearbook:

  1. Microsoft Word

  2. Adobe PhotoShop

  3. Adobe PageMaker

These programs helps the staff design and develop the spreads, and to place the pictures, text, and captions.

If you would like to learn more about the Journalism programs at Northwest, contact the advisor, Celia McDuff.
Designer/Creator of this website: Erica Brock

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