1920s Magazine Project
Imagine that you are a young up and coming journalist working at the 1920's magazine of your choice. Your boss is paying you to go out and enjoy the culture of the time so take advantage of all of the opportunities! Your job is to create a magazine covering aspects of culture: arts, music, lifestyles, fashion, sports, and the like from the 1920's. You will create this magazine in a group of five, with each person working to create a product that is reflective of the time period. Your magazine should be reflective of the 1920's as much as possible and should mimic an actual magazine format. Have fun with it! Would you want to read something with a boring title?
Magazine Requirements:
You will have four days in class to complete this project.
You will have four days in class to complete this project.
- Day One should be spent on dividing up work within your group and researching your topic.
- Day Two should be spent setting up your articles and assigning who will write up
- Day Three should be spent writing your article and beginning any supplementary materials if time allows.
- Day Four should be spent peer editing your articles within your group, creating a group magazine cover, and completing supplementary materials. Be sure to stay on task!
1. You will analyze a current magazine's format in order to get ideas about the relevant style and content of the magazine's creators as well as the typical reader. This will help you to make your project look like an authentic magazine.
Magazine types you can choose for format examples:
Sports Illustrated
Newsweek
Time
Magazine types you can choose for format examples:
Sports Illustrated
Newsweek
Time
2. You will create a magazine with the following components:
- Cover Page (Lead story, picture, title of magazine, editors/contributors, & date)
- Table of Contents (this should be created last)
- Five feature or news articles. Articles must be written as if they could be in your magazine during the 1920's. Each group member is responsible for 1. They can be about any significant cultural event, trend or development during the 1920's such as fashion, entertainment, cars, sports, lifestyles, literature, or social issues. Reminder, you will need to title your article in manner of a real magazine article.
- Articles should be typed into one of the Microsoft Publisher or Power-Point (Vertical Slides) and be free of grammatical errors.
3. Review the information on the following links. You may use this information to write your articles
FASHION:
ENTERTAINMENT:
CARS:
SPORTS:
WOMEN:
LITERATURE:
SOCIAL ISSUES:
FASHION:
ENTERTAINMENT:
- Movies and Radio
- The Roaring 1920s Concert Extravaganza
- Audio Clips of Music
- Greatest Films of the 1920s
- Fads
CARS:
SPORTS:
WOMEN:
LITERATURE:
- American Cultural History
- Literature
- Arts and Literature
- 1920s Literature
- Revolution in American Literature
- Timeline of American Literature and Events
SOCIAL ISSUES:
4. IMPORTANT! Your articles must correspond to the date of your magazine and have some perspective of time. For instance, if your magazine is written in 1927, you cannot write about the stock market crash of 1929, and any articles about Babe Ruth must either be about the glorious 1927 season or retrospectives about his still vibrant career.
5. Works Cited: Include a works cited formatted in MLA style at the end of your article. For each article, you must use at least two sources of information, pictures should also be cited.
6. Your magazine must also have two supplementary pieces. Group members should work together on these. You may not have more than two of each type in the magazine. These items should be original creations, not a print out from the internet. They should combine your historical knowledge with your imagination. Each should be tailored to your magazine's audience. You may do additional supplementary pieces for extra credit ( no more than two).
- A graphic (map, chart, etc. with contextual explanation of at least 50 words)
- Advertisement (by private organizations or the government). You may copy images but you must create the text yourself. The ads must suit the audience of the magazine and be a popular product of the era.
- Letter to the Editor - on a current controversial issue