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The USA – 1919-41
- The Roaring Twenties
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on tasks that go the extra mile!
15. Design and create some top trumps cards focusing on
key events and people from the USA during the 1920s.
See Mr. Mitchell for frameworks ***
16. Make a learning grid based on prosperity in USA
during the 1920s. What images will you choose? Share it
with someone to help them revise. ***
17. Write your own revision booklet on the ‘roaring
twenties’. What are you key points of learning? How will
you structure this resource? ***
18. Design a promotional campaign poster for
prohibition. Explain the message of your poster ***
19. Write a speech for Hoover’s 1928 Presidential
campaign. What would he say about 1920s America? ***
20. Produce a plan for a statue to ‘the hero of 1920s
America’. Who will you choose and how you will portray
him/her? ***
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“The business of America is business”
Calvin Coolidge
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- j.mitchell@hemelhempsteadschool.co.uk
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1. Make a timeline of the key events in the USA during
the 1920s on A3 paper. *
2. Read and learn the key words for the USA during the
1920s using your textbook. Make some revision cards to
help you remember them. *
3. Create an interactive timeline using a programme such
as Prezi or Movie Maker. *****
4. Make some timeline cards to help you remember key
events in the USA during the 1920s. **
5. Create mini profiles for Harding, Coolidge, Hoover,
Ford and Capone. Who was most significant? **
6. Design a word cloud from www.tagxedo.com that
summarises the USA during the 1920s. Which words and
shape will you choose? ***
7. Design an advert for Henry Ford’s business. What
selling points would you highlight about his business? **
8. Evaluate why some missed out on prosperity during
the 1920s? **
9. Design a guide to 1920s America for an immigrant.
What aspects would you include? *
10. Create a revision mind-map to consider the factors
that help explain why the 1920s is considered a time of
prosperity in the USA. **
11. Find a cartoon on the internet on prohibition. Write
an answer to the question – what is the message of this
cartoon? ***
12. Request a past paper from your teacher. Complete
the past paper in timed, test conditions at home. ******
13. Create your own set of revision cards on the topic of
was America an intolerant society during the 1920s. **
14. Make your own hexagon pattern, linking as many
different aspects of 1920s America as you can. See Mr.
Mitchell for a framework sheet for this. ***