Essential Question: Were the 1920’s “Roaring” or “Boring”?
Assignment: You will research and present the findings to your classmates. The class
will be broken up in to eight groupings.
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The Consumer Culture and Technology
The Automobile
The Evolving role of American Women
American Art Architecture and Music
Hero’s Heroines, and Villains
American Authors comment on American Culture
Harlem Renaissance
Fundamentalist movement
The group is responsible for creating
a. An 7-8 minute presentation on your topic answering the Essential Question and
including the key points listed below.
b. A note taking guide for your classmates to use during your presentation.
c. A visual aide for each major point you touch on in your presentation, video or
skit.
d. A typed works cited page for all sources used in the project (MLA style) .
e. A creative title to your project.
It will be up to each group/individual to decide how exactly they will present the
information.
You will be provided with some sources to get you started, however it will be your
group’s responsibility to utilize the Internet/ Library to find more information and
sources. This will be done on your own time! If you choose to work in a group you need
to sign a partner/group contract.
You must present a master copy of your note taking guide. It can be in any format you
want, however, it has to denote key names, terms, concepts, etc. that your group is
presenting. Do Not Make it too wordy!! You need to summarize your material in your
own words, and hand it out!!
Visual Aides are to be an addition to your presentation, not the presentation it’s self. The
Visual Aides need to enhance your presentation. The following items are acceptable
examples of visual aides:
 Photographs/posters
 Images
 Charts
 Timelines
 Video
 Skit
 Music video
You may use power point or movie maker for your project. If you create a movie you
can earn up to five points extra credit.
Your group should not stand in front of the room and read!!! Do not bore us!!!! You
may use notes as a guide, but your presenter needs to be comfortable enough with the
material to make eye contact with the class.
As an audience you will gather notes using the note taking guides that other groups give
out. Any inappropriate, disrespectful, or distracting behavior will result in a penalty on
your grade for this project and the fury of the history gods will be unleashed upon you!!!!
The following information needs to be included in each project.
Culture and technology: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts of 33 in
your text book.
 Radio and Movies (silent and talkies)
 Household electrical appliances
 Food storage
 Advertising
 Buying on credit and margin buying
 Chain stores
The Automobile: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts of 33 in your text
book.
 Mass production and assembly lines
 Alternative industries boosted by automotive industry (How?)
 Highway systems and traffic laws
 Henry Ford brief bio
 How did the automobile change the life of Americans
 Competition with Railroads
Evolving role of American Women: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts
of 33 in your text book.
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Flappers
Smoking and drinking
Loosening of morals and sexual freedoms
Roles and opportunities in the workforce
Changing role of women in the family
Fashion and dress
American, Art, Architecture, and Music: You will find information in Chapter 32 and
parts of 33 in your text book.
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Architectural designs
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Skyscrapers
Edward Hopper
Georgia O’Keefe
George Gershwin
Ivring Berlin
Greenwich village
Chicago’s south side
Harlem Renaissance: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts of 33 in your
text book.
 Marcus Garvey (UNIA)
 Langston Hughes
 Zora Neale Hurston
 Creation/popularization of Jazz
 Cotton Club
 Bessie Smith/ Blues
 How it fueled a political movement in the United States
Heroes, Heroines, and Villains: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts of 33
in your text book.
 Sport and hero Worship (babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle, Knute
Rockne)
 The Negro Leagues
 Aviators -Lindbergh and Earhart
 Rogues: Capone, Bootleggers, Speakeasy’s, organized crime
 KKK
 Sacco and Vanzetti Case
American Authors Comment on American Culture: You will find information in
Chapter 32 and parts of 33 in your text book.
 Reaction to post WWI American culture
 The Lost Generation (Gertrude Stein)
 Hemingway
 Fitzgerald
 Rural/middle America vs. New Urban America
 T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound
Fundamentalist Movement: You will find information in Chapter 32 and parts of 33 in
your text book.
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Fundamentalist ideas
Scopes Trial
o Affect of radio on trial
o Outcome of trial