1920s

This lesson will be a cooperative activity between a pair or group of students that will incorporate primary sources and a writing activity.

Students will research in a group setting and prepare a written report or a PowerPoint presentation (complete with notes) about some aspect of the 1920s that does not fit the stereotype this era.

Have students recognize cause and effect by reflecting on how a person's history/culture impacts his/her development and the decisions they make.

The students will be expected to compare and contrast the life styles of various groups of 1920s people with the same groups of those groups in the present time.

Students will work together to analyze primary sources on the inter-war period in both the Soviet Union and the United States and will work individually to draw conclusions about those sources by producing a Venn Diagram.

Students will read chapter five from Fredrick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday, "The revolution of Manners & Morals" as a guide to the seismic shifts in American popular culture during the 1920s.

Students will be required to put together a PowerPoint or poster board presentation on a theme from the Roaring Twenties. The presentation (PowerPoint slides or poster board) must include pictures, descriptions, and various other items.

Students will study and write about famous black Americans in the 1920s and 1930s.

Activities to help students gain a more distinct knowledge of the Jazz Movement of the 1920s.

Students will research the Internet for information on machine politics in the 1920's and 30's making note of common characteristics. Students will read primary and secondary sources.