New Alexa Dragone Portfolio

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alexa giovanna elizabeth dragone

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Wow. Here it is. As I sit here with the final product in my hand, I look back at the past year. Starting with yearbook camp, I knew it was going to be a hard

year. With the absence of our head advisor, all of the editors were really going to have to step up and take control. I believe, that even though we struggled, we definitely beat the expectations. This year has taught me the definition of perseverance. Starting off with the first deadline, we dove in head first. Ashley, Sadie and I were nervous. How do you direct a class full of headstrong people? It took us a while to figure it out, but we did. We learned that in order to show our leadership and get shit done, we need to seem unbreakable. No matter what the editors always had each other’s backs. If we seemed in control, the class would be in control. As managing editor, my first job was making sure everything got done. If, for some odd reason it didn’t get done, it was my job to get it done and then ask questions. I was John’s eyes and ears. Even though my involvement is not necessarily seen within the pages of the book, it is very much recognized by the fact that we have a book at all. In all aspects, I did my job. The yearbook got done, and it is beautiful. Journalism, especially the art of yearbook, has taught me so much. As I look around my math class, on the last day of senior year, I realize just how important a yearbook is. All of these people want to look back at this and think, wow that was the good stuff.

They want a beautiful book to eventually show their high school students, and that is on my head. With that, they want to remember the things that happened. That means the truth, being real to the story, is incredibly important.

No one wants a book full of mush, they want to remember the football we almost one, but still had a great time at. They want to remember the haunted house that almost killed a boy. These are things they want, so this is what we have to deliver, no matter how hard it is to do so. Overall, these past three years have been incredible. They have shown me what leadership, hard work and dedication can become when out all together.

reflection 2 As the managing editor, it is hard to pinpoint one significant thing that I did. However, if I had to say one, I would say the ladder. Starting right after the summer camp, it took me days to finish the ladder. I had to make and remake the ladder so many times that the numbers started blurring together. After I finally finished though, my job wasn’t over. Every deadline involved challenges and with that spreads were constantly being moved around. Up until the last deadline, the ladder haunted my dreams, suffocating me with the pages of the color coordinated deadlines. Even though the ladder was the bane of my existence, it was the whole backbone of the book. With the ladder, we would not even have a book. Or we would, but it would be so unorganized and repetitive and overall not good at all. So I would say, of all the stuff I did behind the scenes this year, re ladder was by far the most significant of them all. Even though this is not the whole ladder, you get the point.

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split second reaction

Seniors relish in one last adventure before school begins 4:30. “C’mon Melissa wake up.” Alexa Dragone, a senior, woke up in the morning ready to go on an adventure. Armed with her 23 year old sister Melissa, she packed her purse and prepped the car in order to meet Kameron Moore and Adam Penzone, both seniors, for their early morning trip.

“It was crazy early and really cold but the three of us wanted to do something adventurous before the school year started,” said Moore. As the began to drive down Cave Creek road toward Tonto National forest they all knew this was going to be a long trip.

“Lex played the entire Hamilton soundtrack, that’s how long it took to get up there. It was sketch cause we had to take my moms car the the road was only half their but we made it,”

said Melissa. The trip to the Launch Pad was onl ning of the excitement. Prepped with a Nixon ca was excited to capture this trip on film. The sun b rise, feeding way to beautiful photos and shots. A ing progresses Melissa offered to take a photo of her friends. Together the three sat on the top of t scared she might slip Alexa made the boys stay w the wind picked up Alexa slipped on her jacket, h forgot her phone was in the pocket.

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