Checklist for Magazine Project

Directions: You will be producing a magazine that you create which showcases information from the novel ______. The magazine should be digitally produced using color, black and white, assorted fonts, graphics, photographs, and creative illustrations. The magazine will have a total of 17 t0 20 pages, plus your cover, inside front cover, back inside cover, and back cover. Use the following throughout the unit:

Checklist Rubric Storyboard Calendar Standards Each process task counts as a quiz. The final magazine is a project grade. Your mission is to develop your writing skills and to have fun displaying your creative ideas!

Process tasks to complete: 2 pages – editorials or letters to the editor – due 4 pages – feature stories, interviews, and/or personal narratives – due 2 pages – one informative expository essay which describes and explains your talent, interest, or hobby, include 2 references, cited in MLA format – due 4 pages – fun facts, games, puzzles, surveys, etc. – due 2 pages – 1 book review, including summary of book, photo of book, information about the author, recommendations to readers – due 1 page – table of contents – due

Advertisements - due 5 advertisements = 1 is the inside cover, 1 is the outside cover, 1 on the inside back cover as an infomercial, 2 are placed in the middle of the magazine

______Letters to the editor or letter from the editor (persuasive) – 2 pages ______

______Feature article due on ______: can be 1 or 2 articles. (Personal narrative, fictional interview, or a fictional story about your topic)(Narrative writing) 4 pages ______Expository article (current event) including 2 cited sources in MLA format due on ______(2 pages minimum)

______Fun facts – 4pages due on ______

______Book review – 2 pages due on ______

______5 advertisements, one is charity infomercial, due on ______

______Table of contents due on ______

______Illustrated cover with my photo or picture, magazine title, date, barcode and price, banner headline, and titles of Expository and Feature articles.

______Final magazine due on ______Magazine Project - Curriculum Standards

Standard Element: ELA9R.1.2.b Informational Text: Applies, analyzes, and evaluates common organizational structures (e.g., graphic organizers, logical order, cause and effect relationships, comparison and contrast).

Standard Element: ELA9RC.2.4.a Explores life experiences related to subject area content.

Standard Element; ELA9W.3.1.a Selects a focus, organizational structure, and a point of view based on purpose, genre expectations, audience, length, and format requirements.

Standard Element: ELA9W.3.3.b Expository Writing: Develops a controlling idea that conveys a perspective on the subject.

Standard Element: ELA9W.3.3.c Expository Writing: Creates an organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.

Standard Element: ELA9W.3.3.7 The student uses a word process application to create and edit a document that contains text (words, phrases, and sentences) and images. (Examples might include journals, reports, cards, calendars, flyers, etc).

Standard Element: ELA9W 3.5.15 The student creates and enhances presentations and documents using appropriate elements of principles of design. (Examples might include repetition of a limited number of colors, fonts, or patterns, continuity of placement of elements, inclusion of images and sounds, etc.)

Standard Element: ELA9W.3.4 Writing genres: Technical Writing The student demonstrates competence in a variety of genres: Technical Writing (business correspondence, resumes, job applications, college application, essays, web pages).

Essential Question? How does an author create and display multi-genre written expression?