Christian Academy's journalism classes not only write articles, but they are a big part of the school. Students in these classes are responsible for making the yearbook. Christian Academy uses an online yearbook company called Herff Jones. On May third, the journalism students got to go to the HJ yearbook plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The students were taken through a tour of the plant, and made four stops along the way. The first stop was into an office setting where the graphic designers played the role  of photo editors. They go through each and every page of each book, and edit all of the pictures that were not previously edited. The second stop was the warehouse part of the building where the pages were printed. Next was the room where they printed the plates  for the colors used to make the pages of the book. Lastly was the binding machine, where of course, the books were bound and the cover was attached. 

Current ninth grader, Katelyn Jordan, took on the large job of editor of the yearbook. Upon arriving at Herff Jones, Katelyn expected it to be a giant warehouse, a bit more fancy than it was. According to her, the most interesting part of the yearbook making process was the machine that put a cover on the book. 

Seeing the plant, and how everything worked, was very interesting to Claudia Markley, current ninth grader. She is very interested in going into something with graphic design after high school. She also really liked the yearbook assignment because of the creativity required. 

Claudia Markley and Katelyn both were hoping to see a sneak peak of our personal yearbook, but the library was too busy at the time. After working hard, and seeing all of the work put into the yearbook, both girls agree that they will definitely appreciate the yearbook more.