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//Hey...If you're here right now, then you're getting a preview of our Social Studies project on popular culture. Take a look, let me know what you think, but don't begin work on it yet. There are a few things we need to get covered in class first.//

//In groups of 2-3, you must invent an element of popular culture.//
 * //Project://**

//Steps: 1. Decide if your addition to pop culture will be fashion, clothing style, language, activities...maybe even a PERSON! Use our brainstorm list to help you out.

2. Decide how this new idea will be presented to the world. Who will be your target audience? Which medium will you use to get your great new idea to the masses?// //Consider different ways of advertising. Check out// [|//this website//] //for commercial ideas.

3. Your addition to popular culture must be presented to our class for judgement (remember...media panders to YOU). There must be a presentation factor to this. Think about video, photos, an advertisement of some sort. How would you make a person famous? What about a saying? There are lots of ideas on line. Take a look in magazines.

4. A good idea might be to try and take something that wouldn't normally be popular, and make it seem like we could absolutely NOT live without it. How could you turn a shoehorn into something we feel we really need? What about a lawnmower? If you don't think this can be done, consider these extremely popular parts of pop culture in the past:


 * The Frisbee --** This was originally a metal pie tin that university students threw at each other between classes.
 * The ChiaPet --** A small sprout plant stuffed in a preformed pot. One of the top-producing commercials of the 1980's.
 * The HulaHoop --** think about it.
 * The internet --** Strange to imagine that something that is such a big part of our lives started out as an emergency plan for the US Military in case of nuclear war.


 * This idea will be updated and improved upon, based on YOUR ideas. Talk to me about this.

Homework for end of Wednesday's class: Have a 3-4 line project proposal for your product. Who is in your group? What element of Pop culture will you be creating? Why will this be a great product for the world?**//