Yearbook Staff Tips: Ask English Dept. for Writing Help

A school yearbook is a chance for students to show their talents, by creating the yearbook or having a special entry about them inside the yearbook. The yearbook team brings students and advisers together to create something special every single year. Most of the time, student’s think of the yearbook team as made up of photographers and students who are technologically savvy, but no one should forget about creative writers!

A great way to help your yearbook go from good to great is to enlist in the English department for writing help! This is a great way to find out about students who excel in all different writing styles.  With the help of students who enjoy creative writing, journalism, and so on your yearbook will become more than just a book with pages of pictures. This gives your yearbook the chance to become truly the story of the entire year; it will be filled with writing that makes your yearbook great! Great writers will bring the yearbook publications to life, in a way that is fresh.

When looking to spice up your yearbook team, you should absolutely look to the students who are great writers. Look to see who enjoys writing stories, poems, journal articles, etc. Every single writer will offer something great for the yearbook. Then, they can show off their hard work to their friends and family, making the yearbook that much more special for them!

YearbookLife looks forward to helping you create and publish your best yearbook possible! Contact us today to get a quote on your yearbook!

Later School Start-Better Student Performance

Experts say teens require nine hours of sleep a night and most do not get the required amount sleep on any school nite. About 20% of high school students fall asleep during the school day.

The solution? Start the school day later. How much later? Many school districts have changed their start times to 8:40am, giving students up to one hour and twenty minutes of extra sleep. The results? Less depression, less irritability, higher average GPA, and a decreased dropout rate.

In Iowa, stating the school day fifty minutes later saved the district over $700,000 annually. How? By reducing the number of buses because each bus had more time to pick up at more locations.

In a survey of parents, 80% of parents recommend the later start to the school day. In a survey of students, 98% agree with their parents. This is the one survey that parents and teens could actually agree.

Military Books

Create a permanent record of your military deployment’s contribution to history with a Military Cruise Book. YearbookLife is a time-honored publisher of military deployment books for the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, National Guard , Army Reserve and Coast Guard. We make it easy to do a quality full-color military deployment or memory book around your schedule and budget. Contact us today to get a free quote on your military memory books.

Duke and the King

Tom skirted the block, and came round into a muddy alley that led by the back of his aunt’s cow-stable. He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two “military” companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment. Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person–that being better suited to the still smaller fry–but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp. Tom’s army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.

As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden–a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes. The fresh-crowned hero fell without firing a shot. A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of herself behind. He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality. He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done.

Childhood

SATURDAY morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. Jim came skipping out at the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals. Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom’s eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off.

Military Photo Albums

YearbookLife is a publisher of military photo books for the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, National Guard, Army Reserve and Coast Guard. We make it easy to do a quality full-color military deployment book around your schedule and budget. From company to brigade, YearbookLife has a book plan that works for any size group.

You can now properly preserve your treasured military documents, photographs and mementoes within our military scrapbook albums. Albums for all branches of the U.S. military are in stock and ready for immediate delivery to you.

Whether you or a family member has just completed a tour of military service, we can create a custom military photo album or military scrapbook highlighting special events, and accomplishments during your military service. We can create a military photo album personalized any way that you like. Army photo albums, Marine Corps photo albums, Air Force photo albums, Navy Photo albums, and U.S. Coast Guard photo albums are all available at YearbookLife.

Military Photo Books are also great gifts for veterans, those on active duty or retiring from military service, and individuals who have recently enlisted. We can print yearbooks for the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, and the Special Forces.

At YearbookLife, we have lots of experience in creating military yearbooks and we can help you get started with creating your military yearbook. Contact us today to get a free quote on your military yearbook.