Into 5 minutes: Standards, Objectives, Agenda, and Attendance
Standards: 11.4, 11.4.5, 11.4.6, 11.5, 11.5.1, 11.5,11.5.5, 11.5.6
Objectives: SWBAT
- Explain efforts made to shape the postwar economy.
- Describe the attempts to create a diplomatic agreements that would prevent another world-wide war.
- Describe the growth of African American culture during the Harlem Renaissance.
- Identify the attacks on civil liberties for African Americans and their political response.
- Discuss the new developments in art and literature during this decade.
- Summarize the growth of popular culture, including in sports and entertainment in the 1920s.
Essential Question: Why did political, economic, and social tensions characterize the 1920s?
Session 1
Reading like a Historian 30 minutes: Scope Trial
Radio Project 30 minutes: Students work on radio project
Session 2
Lecture 20 minutes: African American Culture
Vocabulary 20 minutes:
- Great Migration
- Harlem Renaissance
- Claude McKay
- Langston Hughes
- Marcus Garvey
- Cotton Club
- Jazz/ Blues
Enrichment 8.6 p. 405 A Jazzy Poem
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| Nighthawks by Edward Hopper |
Analysis 10 minutes: Describe how the painting above may have reflected the experience of small-town people who moved to cities?
Reading 10 minutes: p. 393-394 Radio Broadcasts of the 1920s & Sports Heroes of the 1920s
- Carl Sandburg- Chicago
Session 3
Popular Culture |
| Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth |
Listening and Watching 35 minutes:
Rise of Hollywood
- Charlie Chaplin
- What qualities did Charlie Chaplin possess that made him successful in Hollywood?
- Douglas Fairbanks
- What are your thoughts on Douglas Fairbanks in the mark of Zorro?
- Yes We Have No Bananas
- What do you think about the song? Why might have it been popular in the twenties?
- Amos n Andy
- What stereotypes do Amos n Andy pervade about African Americans? Could a similar show exist like this by today's standards?
Fashion in 1920s
Closing 5 minutes: Review Objectives.
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