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Cranston High School West Library: Baranowski - Roaring 20s

Assignment

Roaring 20's Project

Instructions:

  1. Read Chapter 22   sections 1, 2, 3   page  732 - 751.
  2. In each section define / identify new key terms in your notebook.
  3. Research topics using your device.
  4. Think about the changes in society,  lifestyles,  attitudes,  work & play.  Think about if you had to write a 10-page paper to tell all about societal changes & everyday life in the 1920’s.  

Relax & breathe. You don’t have to write a 10pg paper.

  1. Now picture these ideas in your head.  What do you see?
  2. Imagine how you could demonstrate knowledge of all of this and others would understand your product.
  3. Make a plan & carry it out.

Specifics: Create a poster or slide presentation

  1. You will work alone and must chose a different topic from all in the class.
  2. Poster Size: 24” x 36”  or a Google slide presentation
  3. Design:  Be creative!! Examples:
  • Divide the poster into blocks.  Each block would be a topic of society. Place pictures along with a summary for each.
  • Create a large collage and include key words and summaries.
  • Make a story = (block format)
  • Make a large letter to someone, or a diary entry.  Include pictures where appropriate.
  • Compose a written report (1.5 – 2 pages) on all the information with works cited page

Required:

  1. DO YOUR BEST !!!
  2. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
  3. DELIVER IT ON TIME:  Monday Nov 13
  4. PRESENT YOUR WORK TO THE CLASS

ANY QUESTIONS …  ASK !!!!!

TOPICS

Adjusting to Peacetime

  • Return to normalcy – factories, unions, Harding Coolidge

Foreign Policy

  • League of Nations, Red Scare, disarmament Sacco & Vanzetti 

Immigration

  • Who were targets, what were the policies

Prohibition

  • Bootleggers, speakeasies, organized crime

Flappers

  • Independence after the war, work during the war, then after, fashion, attitudes

Mass culture

  • Theater, movies, radio, music 

Social trends 

  • Fads, heroes literature

The Jazz Age

  • Harlem Renaissance

Social Conflict

  • Scopes Trial  Racial Conflict 

Impact of the Automobile

  • How the car changed America

  • What other industries did it start

  • What did it mean for the typical family 

Consumerism 

  • Ultra rich, and the working, new products, Stock market

ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases

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Gale eBooks

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Flappers

Prohibition - Speakeasies