The Kingdom and The Keys: Gamified Language Arts

Pushing the Zine

You are comfortable with page layout, with spreads, with short anecdotes. A slice of life vignette is your favorite flavor of pizza.

Produce a magazine using Word or Publisher with other students.

Magazine Design Project

Bronze

4 Levels

Put together a design for a magazine that you and a group of students would be interested in publishing as the year continues

You must have a cover page and a title of contents. 


These are mock-up assignments and may not reflect your final design decisions.

Requirements:

Cover Page
  • The Title of your magazine
  • A visual design that reflects the genre and theme of your magazine
  • Magazine motto or slogan
  • Three fake story titles in quotes that represent the sort of story that your magazine will cover
Table of Contents Page
  • A list of at least five different sections and their themes
  • A projected page number count for how long each section will be

Silver

5 Levels

Network with other students who would like to have their work showcased in your magazine, begin work on your layout for your first printing

Requirements: 
  • AT LEAST four other students interested in writing on a monthly basis for your magazine (these students will get credit for their writing if it meets other assignment criteria but only the student credited as LEAD EDITOR will receive credit for the "Pushing The Zine" assignment.
  • Your team should be assigned these four jobs
  • Lead Editor - One Person
  • Page Editor - One Person
  • Art Lead - One Person
  • Contributors - As many as necessary
  • Turn in your list of jobs, and students involved in your project


Gold

10 Levels + 10 Give

Compile and edit your first issue

Requirements:
  • Zine must be turned in on Word or Publisher
  • Zine must contain AT LEAST 10 pages, including the cover and table of contents
  • All students named in the Silver level MUST have work in the Zine. 
  • Lead Editor does not need to have work in the Zine, but must edit the Zine before it is turned in online
  • Zine must have images on at least four pages, you may have images with no words on some pages, if the images are high definition and large
  • Turn in your work online

Master

5 Levels to each Contributer

Print your first issue

Requirements:

  • Print your first issue!
  • Must print AT LEAST 30 copies of your zine
  • You may need to network with teacher, admin, parents to get this done

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