October Open House Issue Review

     I think the open house issue of the beacon was less successful than our first September issue because it wasn't as interesting as our first issue and it seems like there were more grammatical errors in this issue than in the September issue. My favorite page was page 2 with all of the teacher interviews and the 5x5. I liked the range of teachers that we had because we included teachers from almost every main department in Whitney Young while also showing the diversity of the Whitney Young staff. My two favorite interviews were the interview with Ms. Pasulka and the interview with Ms. Au. I liked Ms. Pasulka's interview because I thought that it would really appeal to parents who read her interview that Whitney Young has a staff member whose only role is to help improve the writing of Whitney Young students and teachers. I also liked Ms. Au's interview because it seemed a little more natural than some of the other interviews. What I mean by that is that she told a short story in her interview that didn't seem like a plug for why Whitney Young is perfect in every way, but instead was just a nice story related to how she got to Whitney Young. That being said Ms. Au was still able to say something nice about our school and our math team which works for being in the open house issue. I also thought the 5x5 was good for the Open House edition because even though the answers were a little short they did make Whitney Young sound good to our prospective students.
     My least favorite page was page 3 because once again we were unable to sort out our formatting issue with the box outlines around some of our text boxes. I also disliked page 3 because there were a lot of grammatical errors in Phoebe's article that I wish we would've caught and edited. I noticed her story had a lot of misuse with commas as well as a lot of other minor grammatical errors. For example after naming Luna Mac-Williams in the article she put "18'" with the apostrophe after the 18 instead of before. Small details like this could've been easily avoided and would've added to the quality of the issue. I also thought Claire's article on page 1 about the open house was a kind of weird story to put in the open house edition. Although I understand that the article was supposed to serve as a kind of message to prospective students that Whitney Young is excited to have them at our school it still seemed a little strange to include. Overall I think that the issue was pretty good and served its purpose well, but that it could've been improved just a bit to be a little more successful.