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MAGAZINE PROJECT 100pts

OBJECTIVE: To create a magazine of your choice of themes, complete with at least ten different articles, ten different advertisements, and a table of contents.

METHOD: You will be responsible for writing everything within the magazine.  You   will need to start with the front cover, then a correct table of contents listing all articles within the magazine.  After the table of contents, there needs to be the Letters to the Editor page, where readers have written letters to the magazine.  These letters are then answered in some way by the Magazine staff.  There needs to be at least ten different articles within the magazine.  The articles need to be; an interview, a review of something, a Top Twenty list with justifications, Letter of Introduction, and a column.  The other five articles are of your choice. One of the articles has to be the Cover Article, the biggest one within the magazine and the one advertised most on the cover.  There also needs to be Advertisements appropriate to the magazine.  At least one of the advertisements needs to be a full page in size.  Toward the back of the magazine, there needs to be a page of advertisements.  The last page of the magazine needs to be the back cover, with an image that has summarized or unified the entire magazine

 

RUBRIC: Articles (At least ten different; Interview, Review, Top 20, Letter, Column)  40pts

          Advertisements (At least ten different) 20pts

          Table of Contents 10pts

          Letters to Editor (at least five letters) 10pts

          Front Cover (complete with Magazine title, date, headlines of the magazine, picture) 10pts

Back Cover (must have a summary picture, art, image unifying the magazine) 10pts

          Spelling and Grammar -1pt per misspelled word, grammatical error

 DUE DATE: May 16th



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