Subjects:  Social Studies, Language Arts, Music, Art, 

Learner Outcomes:
    Students will be able to:

• describe the mood in America following WWI
• give examples of and reasons for social unrest and intolerance during the postwar period
• explain the positions taken by middle-class Americans in the 1920s regarding African Americans, prohibition, immigration and Communism
• describe the political and economic philosophies of Harding and Coolidge
• understand the Women's Suffrage movement and the Flapper

Materials:  graphic organizers

Technology Tools/Courseware:  Computer, data projector, power point presentation

Teacher Notes:  Secure lab for enrichment

Procedures:  Teacher will provide information through power point presentation and lecture.
Students will use the graphic organizer  - The Web - for note taking.  Web is centered on page for printing purposes.
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Modifications:  The pace of the class will be somewhat slower to accommodate LD students.  Teacher must not get ahead of the students.  Please check IEPs.  For Advanced students:  They may pick any one topic in the lecture and search for articles offering conflicting viewpoints. They will then write a paper expressing their viewpoint based on the articles.  Articles must be attached to the paper.

Enrichment Activity:  Students may go to prohibition web site.
           Read about the Prohibition Party
           View 5 or 6 political cartoons and their analyses
           Create a political cartoon on Prohibition in the 1920s.  They will have one week from the date of the assignment.
           This is a special assignment not to be done in class.
           Grades will be based on historical accuracy, creative thinking and neatness.

Evaluation/Assessment:  At the beginning of the unit, students will be told their evaluation will be in the form of a
                                          project.  This is done so that students can be thinking of topics they would like to work on.
                                          The following instructions will be given:

                        For your project, you may select any aspect of the Roaring Twenties.  You may do a
                        poster, design a fashion page, write an original song or poem, do a collage, build a
                        model, illustrate a slogan, or anything else you might like to do.  The project will be
                        graded on neatness and historical accuracy.  Artistic ability is not required.

WV IGOs:

• Civics - 11.5
• History 11.4
• History 11.45
• History 11.51
• Computer/Technology 12.88
• Writing 12.42
• Reading Comprehension 12.26

References:

• Bailey, Thomas, The American Pageant, 9th edition, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, MA, 1987.
• Cayton, Andrew, et al, America Pathways to the Present, Prentice Hall, Needham, MA, 1998.

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