Tuesday 1/12
RAP
How would you describe leisure activities of
today?
Today:
• Radio Show
Radio Show
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“Annie” clip
1920 Slang
Radio Script examples
Requirements
Grade sheet
Wednesday 1/13
RAP
1. What type of radio show is your group going to do?
2.What do you think of this quote?
“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the
rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten
worse instead of better,” Mr. Obama said, adding that
“a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might
have better bridged the divide.”
Today:
• CE presentations
• Radio show work—commercials, type of show, roles, typist
• Ch. 12.1 – PPT on Thursday—notes due Thursday.
– Standard of living– Credit– Mass media– Flapper– New Ways of buying– Route 66- Page-384-385
– Youth and the “Roaring twenties”– Describe changes that industrialization, the automobile, advertising, and the new youth culture brought to
American life.
Thursday 1/14
RAP
Would you have liked to live during the 1920s?
Look at the timeline of New Consumer Products, 1920-1929; page
377
(could use in your radio show)
Today:
– KKK video
– PPT Ch. 12.1 –check notes
– HW: Read and work on Ch.12.2 –DUE Tuesday!!
• SWBAT:
Describe leisure life in the 1920s.
Understand new sports heroes, music, and literary greats.
Title: KKK video notes
• Take notes on:
– The beginning
– 1920s
– Today
• YOU WILL BE WRITING AN ESSAY
– DESCRIBING THE RISE OF THE KKK INTO THE
1920S.
AND
– DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF THE KKK AND OTHER
HATE GROUPS TODAY.
KKK Essay
KKK ESSAY
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DESCRIBING THE RISE OF THE KKK INTO THE
1920S. (History)
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DESCRIBE THE ROLE OF THE KKK AND OTHER
HATE GROUPS TODAY.
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Explain what you can do to minimize
discrimination in your community, town, country,
etc.
12 font
Double space
1inch margins---top, bottom, sides
Title—creative
Give specific examples. DUE Thursday 1/21
1. Look at the chart on page 377: -- Which
area did income decrease?
2. Look at picture and map on page 378: -How does this illustrate Americans’
rising standard of living?
3. Look at the illustration on page 379. -Answer the questions below the
illustration.
4. Look at the picture of youth on page 382;
and the flappers on page 383---answer
the question for this picture.
Objective:
Describe how and why Americans standard of living rose.
Describe the effects of the automobile on the economy and culture of the 1920s.
Understand how advertising and mass media affected American buying habits and fashions.
Culture of Time—Pages 370-371
• The Roaring Twenties
– Charlie Chaplin
– Bessie Smith
– Charleston and tango
– Daredevils
– fads
Ch. 12 .1 –Growth of the Middle Class
– Standard of living- middle class Americans were able to improve their lives:
necessities and luxuries were more available and affordable.
– Refrigeration—ate more fruits and vegetables
– Vacuum cleaners
– Electric irons
– Toasters
– Washing machines
– Radios
– Photographs
– Telephone
GROUPS HURT
• South was not electrified for years, along with many other rural areas.
• Farmers were hurt---low wages and overproduction
• Coal miners—people using electricity instead of coal to heat.
• Cotton farmers---people using less cotton.
• America hits the road
– Autos add to other industries
• Steel, lead, nickel, gasoline, glass, rubber.
• Garages, filling stations, hot dog stands, restaurants, tearooms,
tourists’ roadside camps.
• Paved roads
• Route 66—Chicago to Santa Monica
• Model T to the Model A
– New colors—not just black
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Dating
Sunday outings
Vacations
Shopping
Debt
• Installment plan
– Credit- putting
money down and
paying the balance in
installments.
– New Ways of buying• New chain stores
–A & P, Safeway,
Piggly Wiggly,
Sears Roebuck,
and J.C.
Penney, F.W.
Woolworth
– Mass media- modes of communication that reached large
numbers of people
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Newspapers
Radio stations
Billboards
National magazines
BUY! BUY! BUY!
– Youth and the “Roaring twenties”• Fascination with youth after WWI
– Adults tried to act like children
• Young people model of fashion, dress, music, and
language
• Fads—15 year old sits on a flagpole for 10 days, 10
hours, 10 minutes, and 10 seconds in 1929.
– Flapper• Opposite of Gibson girl (ideal feminine beauty before
WWI: long, flowing hair, womanly figure, tiny waist,
covered legs
• Flapper—1920s—bound her chest, lifted her hemline,
and rolled down her stockings; she bobbed her hair
short and wore a close fitting hat; applied makeup
with a bold hand, and smoked!
– Route 66- linked Chicago to Santa Monica; opened on
Nov. 11, 1926, main arteries of the national highway
system.
– Describe changes that industrialization, the automobile,
advertising, and the new youth culture brought to
American life.