1920’s topics
18th amendment prohibition
Gangsters
Flappers
End WWI/ Red Scare
Black Sox Scandal
Woodrow Wilson
Gender Roles / Sexual Mores1920s
Labor Unions 1920s/ Child Labor
Jazz Age
1920’s Research Project
Purpose/Objectives:
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relate a literary work to non-literary and/or other texts from its historical
setting
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use research venues to gather information: books, periodicals, encyclopedias,
atlases, almanacs, CD ROM, databases and Internet
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use technology and research to support writing
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prewrite, draft, revise and edit writing to improve fluency, content, organization
and style
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produce a multi paragraph writing with the focus on factual, historical information
that establishes an organizational structure appropriate to purpose, audience,
content and type of composition.
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establish clear, coherent paragraphs with controlling idea and examples,
illustrations, facts and details to support each paragraph
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incorporate reference quotations and citations into written text while maintaining
the flow of ideas through the use of synthesizing information and summarizing to
avoid plagiarism
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document sources of quotations, ideas and facts using MLA format through the
appropriate use of a works cited page and parenthetical citations.
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control writing for spelling, capitalization, fragments, run-on sentences.
Assignment
You will write a research paper on a topic chosen/assigned on the attached list.
(No two students in the same class can have the same topic.) You will take appropriate
notes while conducting research in the library. You will plan your paper and prewrite prior
to creating your first draft. Upon completing your rough draft, you will then revise and
type your final paper. Research, note taking, and your works cited page (bibliography) will
count as one test grade. Your rough draft and final revised paper will count as a second
test grade.
Scoring Sheet
1. Research, Note Taking, and Works Cited page
(100 total points for a separate test grade):
--Overall topic and 3 sub-topics submitted=10 points
--3 Sub-topic/source sheets, two sources per sub-topic (for a total of 6 sources)=60
points
(20 points for each sub-topic/source sheet, total of 60 points)
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Contains all MLA info needed
Each sub-topic must have two sources, and 20 facts total about the
sub-topic
Sources must be reliable
One of your sources must be something other than an Internet
source
No Wikipedia
--Works Cited page correctly completed
(total of 30 points)
2. Rough Draft and Final Draft (100 points)
--Rough draft (10 points)
A rough draft is an important part of the writing process. Your final draft will not
be accepted without a rough draft.
--Final draft (90 points)
You will prepare a final draft of your research paper. The paper will be 5 fully developed
paragraph, typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins on all sides, and 12 pt. font Times
New Roman type. Your final paper will be scored based on the following. Your paper will
consist of an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Important Dates
Friday, 1/23
Topics chosen/assigned; set up folders on the server (mobile lab)
Monday, 1/26
Determine three sub-topics for your topic, must turn in (mobile lab)
Wednesday, 2/4-Friday 2/6
Research; one sub-topic sheet (2 sources for each) turned in each day
(media lab)
Wednesday, 2/11-Thursday 2/12 Rough draft written in class
Tuesday 2/17-Thursday, 2/18
Type final draft; final draft due by end of class Thursday (mobile lab)
Research Topics
Harlem Renaissance
Prohibition (1920s)
Women’s Rights in 1920s
1920s Fashion
1920s Entertainment
Economic Conditions leading to the Depression
1920’s: Year of Six Presidents
1920s Sports Heroes
Roaring Twenties
Influence of Radio in 1920s
Movies (Talking Pictures) in 1920s
Flappers
League of Nations
Lindberg’s Transatlantic Flight
Discovery of Tutankhamen’s (King Tut’s) Tomb
Barnstorming
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Mass Production in 1920s
Famous Writers (Besides Fitzgerald) in 1920s
Women in Sports in 1920s
Yale University (history)
Oxford University (history)
The Rise of the Mafia in the 1920s
Noteworthy Criminals in 1920s
1919 World Series
Labor Unions (1920s)
Famous Politicians in 1920s
Jazz in the 1920s
Researching the 1920's Era
Books | Audiovisual Resources | Reference Sources | Article Databases | Web Sites
Books about the 1920's: Literary, Social and Cultural Histories
American Heritage History of the 1920's & 1930's / Ralph K. Andrist (Editor)
New York: Crown Publishers, 1987
LOCATION: General Collection E784.A67 1987
Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939: Decades of Promise and Pain / David E. Kyvig
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, c2002
LOCATION: General Collection E169.K985 2002
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties / Ronald Berman
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2001
LOCATION: General Collection PS3511.I9 Z55774 2001
The great trials of the twenties: the watershed decade in America's courtrooms / by Robert
Grant and Joseph Katz
Rockville Centre, NY: Sarpedon, 1998
LOCATION: General Collection KF220.G73 1998
The jazz age: the 20s / by the editors of Time-Life Books
Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1998
LOCATION: General Collection E784.J39 1998
The Lawless Decade / Paul Sann
New York: Crown Publishers, 1961
LOCATION: General Collection E784.S3
New world coming : the 1920s and the making of modern America / Nathan Miller
New York : Scribner, c2003
LOCATION: General Collection E784.M555 2003
The Roaring Twenties
Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2004
LOCATION: General Collection E784.R63 2004
Sacco & Vanzetti: [Italian immigrants and anarchists, framed by the State and executed for
murder in Boston during the Red Scare of the 1920s] / edited by John Davis
New York: Ocean Press, 2004
LOCATION: General Collection HX843.7.S23 A97 2004
Saying it's so: a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal / Daniel A. Nathan
Stock Market crash 1929
Scopes Monkey Trial /Darwinism
Henry Ford
Charles Lindbergh
KKK