1920s and 1930s Video Skit Project
This project is the cat’s pajamas! For this assignment, you will be working with
classmates to showcase what you’ve learned on specific topics during the 1920s and
1930s unit. Each group will be assigned a theme, and will create a skit (including props
and a transcript) that will be videotaped and shared with the class. Each video should
be between 2-4 minutes long and e-mailed to Ms. E (Carlishia.Elligan@lcps.org) or Ms.
O’Leary (Alison.OLeary@lcps.org) the NIGHT BEFORE THE VIDEO SHARE DATE.
Do not wait until class, as we will be reviewing each video before we share them.
Each video must accurately include all of the required vocabulary words of the
theme to receive full credit. Just using the word in a sentence will not prove you
understand it – context clues or definitions must be obvious for each to show that you
know its relevance to the 1920s/1930s. CONSULT THE RUBRIC TO MAKE SURE
YOU HAVE ALL OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS. You will have one class block to finish
planning and videotaping the assignment before the video share date. Not all students
have to be in the video, but all must participate in its creation. If you are absent on the
planning day, your group will make their video without you and you are responsible
for creating one on your own time – no exceptions.
Required Vocabulary Words / Phrases for Each Theme
Theme A: Inventions /
Technology
1. affordable automobile
2. transportation-related
industries
3. suburban areas
4. Wright Brothers
5. Henry Ford
6. Charlie Chaplin
7. entertainment
8. electrification
9. labor-saving products
10. communications
Theme D: Harlem
Renaissance
1. Harlem Renaissance
2. African American
3. Jacob Lawrence
4. Great Migration
5. Langston Hughes
6. Duke Ellington
7. Louis Armstrong
8. jazz music
9. Bessie Smith
10. blues music
Theme B: Prohibition and
the Great Migration
1. Prohibition
2. speakeasies
3. bootleggers
4. 18th Amendment
5. 21st Amendment
6. Great Migration
7. discrimination
8. employment
opportunities
9. South
10. North & Midwest
Theme E: The Great
Depression
1. Great Depression
2. overspeculation
3. Federal Reserve
4. high tariffs
5. Stock Market Crash
6. failed banks &
businesses
7. unemployment
8. Hoovervilles
9. farmers
10. Dust Bowl
Theme C: Cultural Climate of
the 1920s and 1930s
1. Georgia O’Keeffe
2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. The Great Gatsby
4. John Steinbeck
5. The Grapes of Wrath
6. Aaron Copland
7. Appalachian Spring
8. George Gershwin
9. Rhapsody in Blue
10. Jazz Age
1.
2.
Theme F: The New Deal
The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(FDR)
3. Social Security
4. Alphabet Soup
5. CCC (Civilian Conservation
Corps)
6. AAA (Agricultural Adjustment
Act)
7. NIRA (National Industrial
Recovery Act)
8. TVA (Tennesee Valley
Authority)
9. PWA (Public Works
Administration)
10. WPA (Works Progress
Administration
1920s and 1930s Video Skit Rubric
Before we review your video, the following two requirements must be fulfilled, or a
temporary score of “51” will be a placeholder until you turn in your completed assignment.
Did the group provide a transcript for the video? (YES / NO)
Did the group provide the video ahead of time for prior viewing? (YES / NO)
If the scorer can answer “YES” to both requirements, the video will be shared with the class
and graded.
Grading
Vocabulary Word
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Total Score: _____________
Team Members:
10 Points
5 Points
0 Points
The group clearly
showcases knowledge of
the meaning of the word
and its application to the
1920s/1930s era
The group uses the word
but did not fully
showcase a deep
understanding of its
meaning or relevance to
the 1920s/1930s era
The group did not use
the word in their skit