1920’s Magazine
Your job is to create a magazine covering aspects of culture, politics, arts, music, lifestyles and
the like from the 1920s. You will create this magazine in your study group; each person will
work to create a product that is reflective of this time period. Your magazine will be published
in the classroom and should be reflective of the 1920s as much as possible.
Magazine Requirements:
1) You will create a magazine with the following components:
a) COVER PAGE created by one group member. The cover must include the lead story,
picture, title of magazine, editors/contributors, and date
b) TABLE OF CONTENTS created by one member of the group. This should be created last
to ensure that the page numbers are correct with the page numbers of the magazine
c) ARTICLES. Each member of the group must create an article. Articles must be written as if
they could be in your magazine during the 1920s. Each group member is responsible for
one. They can be about any significant event, trend, or development during the 1920s.
Each page should have a page number written on it as well. Each magazine should
include two “News” stories, and two “Entertainment” Stories
i) News Examples: Prohibition, Sacco & Vanzetti, Henry Ford & the Assembly Line, Model
T, Red Scare, Immigration/Deportations, Strikes Communism, Harding Presidency,
Coolidge Presidency, etc.
ii) Entertainment Examples: Duke Ellington, Flapper Styles, Harlem Renaissance, Babe
Ruth, Jazz, Movies, Radio, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, etc
iii) Articles should be typed, and in column format, like a newspaper or magazine
iv) Keep margins of 1 inch all around
v) The page on which your article is written should be in magazine format; that is no
large expanses of blank paper. You might wrap the article around a picture or an
advertisement.
vi) Your articles must correspond to the date of your magazine or have some perspective
of time. For instance: if your magazine is written in 1927, you cannot write about the
stock market crash of 1929. Any articles about Babe Ruth must either be about the
glorious 1927 season or retrospectives about his still vibrant career – not about him as
if he has already died, retired, etc.
d) ADVERTISEMENT. The two members who did NOT create either the cover or table of
contents are responsible for one ad. It should be for a product created during the 1920s
and should reflect 1920s language, prices, and pictures. Your advertisement must be an
original creation! Use the packets each group gets to pick an item to advertise. Each
advertisement should have a page number written on it as well. You may include your
advertisement on the same page of an article, if you are capable of formatting the page
so it has text wrapping and is neat.
Assignments: Fill in who will do what
(each person should do one task on the left, and one task on the right)
Cover:
News Story 1:
Table of Contents:
News Story 2:
Advertisement 1:
Entertainment Story 1:
Advertisement 2:
Entertainment Story 2:
Grading Standards
Content:
1) Accuracy in reporting
2) Accounts that are rich in detail, factual evidence, and that are INTERESTING TO READ. The
person who reads your magazine should learn much about the era!
3) Each group member will fulfill his/her responsibility
Style:
1) Imagination and creativity, both in writing and presentation
2) Well written articles including proper grammar and spelling. Use rich details in logical order.
3) A neat, professional aesthetically pleasing magazine. Not too much white space!
Point Values:
News/Feature Article --20 points: individual grade
Articles are graded on quality of information, writing, and analysis. They must be appropriate
to time period and interesting to read. They should be typed, in magazine format, and
formatted to fit and fill one page.
Cover -or- Table of Contents -or- Advertisement – 10 points: individual grade, 20 Points: group
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This should be neat, colorful, creative, and aesthetically pleasing. Appropriate creation of the
1920s should be evident in piece.
Group Work – 10 points: individual grade
This is for participating in the group in a positive way. If you do not contribute, fail to complete
your part of the project, complete sub-par work, do other class homework during group work,
distract your partners or classmates, you will lose these points.
Total Individual grade: 60 points
The ENTIRE group will receive 5 points for each created Cover/Table of Contents/Advertisement. Should a group-mate not create
their Cover/Table of Contents/Advertisement, or should the creating be sub-par, the ENTIRE groups grade will suffer.
So do your work!!!
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