What a creative and engaging project to incorporate into your studies of the 1920s! Your young historians will work in groups to design a magazine discussing the political and cultural topics of the decade, each member writing one article and visual to contribute to the group project. 

Concepts

the red scare, communism, the nineteenth amendment, constitutional amendments

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Additional Tags

red scare, sacco and vanzetti, mitchell palmer, 19th amendment, social studies

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Pros

• Offers students a choice from a variety of types of visuals and written pieces, including designing an advertisement, political cartoon, writing a political article or interview
• Includes useful documents on how to construct in-text citations and record bibliographic information during research
• Can download and edit documents

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.7 RH.9-10.8 RH.11-12.7 RH.11-12.8 WHST.9-10.1.a WHST.11-12.1.a