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Senior Memory Books

Okay, it's a scrapbook. Whatever. Your assignment is to gather material for a scrapbook that will memorialize the last four years of your life. For each year of high school, you are required to have at least four pages (front & back) organized into the following categories:

(1) Student Life -- includes life inside and outside the school
(2) Sports/Clubs/Activities -- includes religious groups
(3) Popular Culture
(4) Politics/Current Events/Headlines

NOTE: Four sheets = 8 pages/year = 32 total pages (16 sheets).

Although everyone is required to use these same four categories, consider them as starting points. You can break each category into sections if you'd like. Use headings and titles for each section. Use copies of photos or printouts for images. You can use text and graphics, as well. You can find pop culture and current events for each year of high school on the Internet. Print out or cut out headings and headlines, or create your own.

Some suggestions:
CNN's Year in Review -- 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Time Magazine's Best & Worst (2002)
The Year in Review from Infoplease.

You can use any of the above as a jumping-off point, as well. The Infoplease site, for example, will lead you to Oscar Winners from all four (five) years.

The grade is divided into two equal parts:
*format/requirements/content
*organization/clarity/design

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