The+Roaring+20's+Webquest-Project

The 1920s was an exciting time for many in America. Also called the Jazz Age, many exciting changes in American culture were taking place. The purpose of this Webquest is for you to get a flavor for the times. Enjoy! You will spend 50-55 minutes exploring at least one aspect of culture from the 1920s. Then, you will create a magazine cover that focuses on the area you learned about and how it was representative of the times.

The Process:

 * 1) Choose __**One**__ of the following aspects of culture to explore as your main topic, and __**Two**__ others as secondary topics: Fashion, Cars, Sports, Entertainment, Women, Technology, or Crime
 * 2) Read about your topics using the __**links below**__, other links you may find, as well as your __**book**__. Become as informed as possible about that particular segment of culture. VERY IMPORTANT: Sites have both pictures and text. It is IMPORTANT that you look at the pretty pictures **AND** READ!
 * 3) Consider the **themes**, **achievements**, and important **people** that shape your topics.
 * 4) You will Print out any words or pictures that you want to use on your magazine cover. (Consider: Magazine covers often list article titles, major themes of the issue, news and current events)
 * 5) Create a cover that might have appeared on a magazine like “Life", “People”, “ELLE”, or “TIME". __Your main topic should be the central focus of you cover, with your two secondary topics represented to a smaller degree__. Covers should have a combination of pictures and headlines that highlight the major trends of the day. Your goal is to capture the flavor of culture in the 1920s. Covers should also be highly visual, containing not just one, but many pictures.

**Requirements:**
Magazine covers should include: 1. At least **three pictures** organized in a creative manner, each representing your topics. **At least one** of these pictures must be hand-drawn. (More than three pictures can be used) 2. **Headlines**: Between 6-10 headlines. Each topic must be covered, and other topics you are not covering can also be represented. 3. A **name** for you magazine that takes into consideration the //topics and the time period//. 4. Your magazine cover __must be mounted on a piece of colored construction paper__ in a neat manner.

Grading:
You will be graded on the following:


 * Neatness/creativity (5 points): The cover is put together in a neat manner, with no jagged cut edges, no glue stains or pencil marks, and the overall appearance looks professional. Thought was also put into the design and overall "look" of the work.
 * Content/Cover Theme (10 points): highly creative, excellent title, effective images included, fits theme of magazine very well, attractive to the eye.
 * Requirements_(5 points): Student's work contains all the requirements listed above.
 * Presentation_(3 points): A brief presentation about your cover, showing the themes you explored, explaining your interest and the pictures used. Focus on clear speaking, eye contact, and good information.

Resources:
Fashion: [|Fashion for Men and Ladies] [|The Ultimate Fashion Site] [|Women’s Clothing] [|1920s Fashion] [|Boys’ Fashion]

Cars: [|Chicago Vintage] [|1920s Automobiles] [] [|Riley Motors] [|Classic Cars] [|Ford] [|Consequences of the Automobile] []

Sports: [|Helmets] [|Babe Ruth] [] [|1920s Sports] [|Black Baseball Leagues] [|Article on 1920s Sports] [|African Americans in Sports]

Entertainment: [|Movies and Radio] [|Music] [|Media History Timeline] [|The Roaring 1920s Concert Extravaganza] [|Audio Clips of Music] [|Greatest Films of the 1920s] [|Fads]

Women: [] [| http://www.life123.com/beauty/fashion/flappers/flappers-of-the-1920s.shtml] [|Woman on the Silver Screen] [|Flapper Jane] [|Congresswomen] [|http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/jazzage.html] [|Women’s Organizations in the 1920s] [|Margaret Sanger] [|Bessie Smith] [|Amelia Earhart]

Business, Industry, and Technology: [|Technology’s Impact of Life] [|Charles Lindbergh] [|Electronic Consumer Appliances] [|Consumerism] [|Henry Ford] [|Business]

Crime: [|Leopold and Loeb] [|Capone] [|Sacco] [| and] [|Vanzetti] [|St. Valentine’s Day Massacre] [|Temperance and Prohibition] [|The Scopes Trial]

Conclusion:
This short webquest should have given you an overview of 1920s culture. Hopefully, you have noticed how much of our culture today has been influenced by this period. This is a theme we will pick up on throughout this unit.