Lesson 5.05 Politics of the 1920s

Open 1920s Magazine Project for the complete project description.

Step Eleven:
Complete 5.05 Magazine Editorials Group Discussion. The first thing you need to do is post your 5.03 Article and 5.04 Magazine Ad so that your Editor in Chief can download the documents and put together the final magazine. Be sure to make any edits or corrections before posting. The Discussion Leader should help make sure everyone in the groups posts his or her work.

Next, work together as a group to decide which of the political issues from the list below your group will cover in your magazine. These issues will become political editorials in your magazine. Remember that an editorial is an opinion piece, so whichever issue you select, you will have to decide which "side" you are on and argue that position. Each group member must select one political issue. The Discussion Leader should help ensure that everyone selects a different issue.

Magazine Political Issue List
• Prohibition
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Prosperity with Calvin Coolidge
• Election of Herbert Hoover
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
• Harding administration
• Laisses-Faire approach to government

Step Twelve:
Write a 2 to 3-paragraph political editorial for or against the issue you selected. Information for the editorial may be found within the lesson or from outside research. If you include information from outside sources be sure to include the correct MLA citation information. All information in the editorial should be written in your own words and phrases.

Type your editorial in a Word document and submit it to 5.05 Editorial Dropbox.

Be sure to also post your work to the group discussion so that your Editor in Chief can download it for the final magazine.

Step Thirteen:
After your Editor in Chief posts your group's magazine, complete your final role assignment. Download your role task below and submit the completed work to 5.05 Project Work Dropbox.

5.05 Editor in Chief

5.05 Associate Editor

5.05 Art Director

5.05 Discussion Leader

Assessment #4

Complete the Unit 5 Test in the Quizzes area.