[For High School Students] Ideas and Topics for Graduation Anthologies: Themes You Can Use on the Class Page
A graduation yearbook is a precious record that gives you a chance, once you’re an adult, to look back nostalgically on those days and laugh together with friends.
The process of creating it—reminiscing about school life with classmates, club members, and teachers—also makes for a wonderful event to wrap up your time at school.
In this article, we’ve gathered ideas you can use for a high school graduation yearbook.
Write about your plans and goals after graduation, make a “Most Likely To…” style class ranking to liven things up—be sure to check out these ideas recommended for high school students.
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[For High School Students] Ideas and prompts for your graduation yearbook. Themes you can use on the class page (21–30)
School lunch best & worstNEW!
Even among aspects of school life, school lunch is important—many people probably felt excited about what they’d get to eat that day.
How about putting together a summary of the popular and unpopular menu items from those lunches? By listening carefully to many people’s opinions and lining up various bests and worsts, you can look back on your memories of school lunch.
Through this survey, you might even discover unexpected sides of people—like finding out that someone actually didn’t like a certain menu item.
My personal rankingNEW!
What sticks in your memory from school life varies depending on each person’s personality and sensibilities.
This content asks everyone to think of their own school highlights and present them in a ranked list that reflects those individual traits.
The points of interest will change depending on which moments you choose, so let’s create a unique ranking that showcases your personality.
If you include items that can be expressed numerically—like the time you overslept—it might be easier for others to understand.
[For High School Students] Topics and Ideas for Graduation Anthologies: Themes You Can Use on Class Pages (31–40)
A story about overcoming something I wasn’t good atNEW!
School is a place where we learn many things.
Through academics, sports, and relationships, every day was a cycle of challenges and failures, wasn’t it? Among those days, is there anything that left a particularly strong impression on you? Precisely because overcoming weaknesses isn’t easy, the experiences you see through carry great meaning in life.
Let’s write them down in the class anthology so we don’t forget.
When you feel like you’re about to give up, reading it again may remind you of your determination not to lose and might help your future self.
Black History SenryuNEW!
Not all the memories we’ve piled up are beautiful; there are also those we’d rather not recall—what we call “cringe-worthy pasts.” This idea is to deliberately focus on each of those cringey moments, turn them into senryu, and weave them into our graduation memories.
If you compose senryu using only the bare facts, it’ll just be painful, so try to express them as comically as possible, including how things turned out in the end.
If you choose ones that others can relate to, it might spark lively “so true!” moments.
The ultimate choice between two options
Either-or polls somehow always get people excited, don’t they? Sometimes you’re surprised by what someone picks—“You chose that?!”—and it’s fun to ask “Why?” and hear their reasons.
You can simply enjoy hobby-related ones like “Dogs or cats?” or “Disney or Universal Studios,” and taste-related ones like “Takenoko no Sato or Kinoko no Yama.” If you want to go a bit deeper, you could even try some ultimate either-or questions, like “If you were to marry, Teacher A or Teacher B?” or “Your partner and your best friend are both drowning—who do you save?”
Three years of regret
The three years you spent in high school weren’t only filled with fun memories—there were probably painful and sad ones too.
As you look back on those three years, try writing about something you regret for the graduation anthology.
Maybe it’s something you wanted to try but couldn’t, a goal you worked hard for but didn’t achieve, or feelings you never managed to express—everyone’s regrets may be different.
Of course, don’t just write about the regret itself; it’s also recommended to include how you feel about it now and how you want to use it as a springboard moving forward.
When you’re an adult, you might even look back and laugh, thinking, “I used to worry about things like that.”
Memory Haiku
A recommended idea for a class anthology is senryu poems themed around school memories.
Senryu might sound difficult, but the only rule is to compose in a 5-7-5 pattern! It’s surprisingly approachable even for beginners.
By intentionally expressing your school memories in the short form of senryu, they become easier for people to read, and you might even create unexpectedly funny masterpieces.
If everyone makes them together while chatting and having fun, that time itself will also become a great memory.