Culture Through the Ages

For my fourth marking period project, I am planning on creating a magazine called Culture Through the Ages. I plan on incorporating fashion, style, music, literature, icons, and traditions of numerous eras in chronological order throughout the magazine. This particular project will involve magazine production, writing skills, and historical research. I will bring life to the magazine by interviewing my peers, friends and family. For example, I will interview my peers and friends for deeper insight into the 90's, my parents for the 60's-80's, and my grandparents for years earlier than the 60's. My goal for this project is to learn more about all different areas of the past as opposed to just hearing stories from my elders. I have always wanted to research and gain more knowledge about certain eras and I am excited to finally get the chance to do so. I am eager to read books, watch movies, and format all of my materials into one professional-looking magazine issue. For example, I am going to read Girls Like Us by Sheila Weller, a novel about the music of Carole King, Carly Simon, and Joni Mitchell, their lives, and the generation they changed. I came across a review of this book in People magazine and finally have the perfect opportunity to read it. I hope to work with fashion merchandising and possibly magazine production in and after college so I know this will be a positive learning experience for the future.