As a consumer, you are bombarded daily by advertising messages from the television, the radio, billboards, magazines, newspapers, packaging, the internet, and even the labels on your friend's clothing. The turn-of-the-century documents we viewed in this lesson are just some of the images your ancestors may have come across that suggested the "good life." Every advertiser hopes to tap into you as a buyer, using everything from computer cookies to surveys in order to collect personal data, and then sell you their product.

Find examples of advertising, entertainment and propaganda that clearly are aimed at you and your age. Using documents that you own (photographs, tickets, emails, cards, newspaper clippings) and advertising (either from the internet, print or video), construct a scrapbook that reveals the messages that define your time. One way of responding to the materials you have gathered is to include an original poem or essay.

Scrapbooks can be traditional paper, electronic*, or video products.

• Choose a simple web building program  or one of the community web site building sites  and build a web page scrapbook.
  
• Build a scrapbook with presentation software. Be sure to include the web address below each image you use in the assignment.

Some questions you might ask while looking for pictures to make the scrapbook: