1920’s Research Project
To give you the opportunity to further research a selected topic of the roaring 1920’s I am
requiring you to complete a research project (you can thank me later). This project will
increase your understanding of a selected 1920’s topic and will help us review for our
test. You will choose a selected event or person. In researching your topic, remember to
cover the who, what , where, why and how. Your paper should only be about two pages
typed (approximately 600 words 12 point font-double spaced). I will also require three
sources (one which may be your book and the Internet). You will also create a poster of
your person and event, which should be creative and informative about the
person/event/concept. Your poster will serve as a part of a WWII museum we will
create, in which other students will analyze your work.
People (you will write an obituary and create a poster)
Babe Ruth
Charles Lindbergh
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Al Capone
Henry Ford
George Gershwin
Charlie Chaplin
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Georgia O’Keeffe
Duke Ellington
Sacco and Vanzetti
John L. Lewis
Jack Dempsey
Helen Wills
Gertrude Ederle
A. Mitchell Palmer
Louis Armstrong
Event / Concept (you will write a news article and create a poster)
Harlem Renaissance
Flapper
Scopes Trial
Prohibition/Bootlegging
1920’s Consumerism
1920’s Business
Teapot Dome Scandal
1920’s Immigration
Red Scare
1920’s Labor Movement
1920’s Mass Media
1920’s Education