Yearbook is a challenging course in which students have the unique opportunity to
write a book, prepare a publication for printing, run a business, and record history. This
course is designed to provide students the opportunity to work with advanced technology,
strengthen their analytical and problem-solving skills, improve their communication skills,
and manage tremendous responsibility.
Students will plan and apply proper journalistic skills to publish a yearbook for
Wade Hampton High School. All students in this course spend a great deal of time on
independent study.
Students must be passionate about yearbook in order for them to be
able to do a good job and to endure all the hardships that yearbook production entails.
They need to be committed, dependable, self-motivated, ethical, discreet, and careful.
They must be able to cooperate with each other in an unbiased and unprejudiced manner.
They must be able to treat and view the administration, faculty, staff, and student body in
an unbiased manner. A great deal of information must be covered in a short period of time.
