Download - LIFE & CULTURE IN AMERICA IN THE 1920S
•LIFE & CULTURE IN AMERICA IN THE
1920S
THE ROARING TWENTIES
Think & Write (3 min)
• How did the flapper embody the changing attitudes of many young women in the 1920’s?
THE FLAPPER
A Flapper was an emancipated young woman who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes
Spoke of things & did things considered “inappropriate” by some
NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN
More women enter the workplace : nurses, teachers, librarians, & secretaries Women earned less than men and were kept out of many traditional male jobs; discrimination
Early 20th Century teachers
Teacher Contract, Ohio, 1923
Changes in Education
During the 1920s, developments in education changed the nationEnrollment in high schools quadrupled between 1914 and 1926 Immigrants education?
THE CHANGING FAMILY
1920’s birth control: availableAND accessible
BIRTHRATE?
Birth control clinics opened; the American Birth Control League was founded in 1921
Margaret Sanger and other founders of the American Birth
Control League - 1921
Women’s Suffrage:
• 19th Amendment ratified Aug. 1920, gave women the right to vote
• Women’s perspective on national policy
Expanding News CoverageLiteracy increases, newspaper circulation rose and mass-circulation magazines flourished By the end of the 1920s, ten American magazines -- including Reader’s Digest and Time – circulations of over 2 million
Radio – Advancements in Technology
Radio : most powerful communication tool to emerge in the 1920s More people - faster Listen Live! Sports, politics, entertainment
AMERICAN HEROES OF THE 20s
In 1929, Americans spent $4.5 billion on entertainment (includes sports)Babe Ruth was a larger than life American hero; Yankees
Hit 60 homers in 1927
On the anniversary of Babe Ruth’s 60th homer; a look at records the Yankees legend still holds
• NY Daily News – September 30, 2015 (88 years)
LINDBERGH’S FLIGHT
America’s most beloved hero of the the time:Charles Lindbergh (pilot)first nonstop solo trans-atlantic flight He took off from NYC in the Spirit of St. Louis and arrived in Paris 33 hours later to a hero’s welcome
MUSIC, ART & ENTERTAINMENT
Famed composer George Gershwin merged traditional elements with American Jazz Painters like Edward Hopper depicted the loneliness of American life Movies, music, literaturehttps://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=7NQyzcDnMdE
Gershwin
Hopper’s famous “Nighthawks”
Daily Warm Up (3 min)
• What is a “Renaissance”?• Complete the organizer on your own with
details / examples
The Harlem Renaissance• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ozfYC9CZE
Defining American Culture in Harlem – The Harlem Renaissance
• Cooperative Learning Groups of 5• Use the Defining American Culture / Harlem
Renaissance reading in order to complete the graphic organizer together
• Define the period• Economic, Social, Political and Geographical
Characteristics
Let’s Discuss
“Dream Variation” by Langston Hughes
http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313
Free Write
• Read the poem, Dream Variation, by Langston Hughes – written during the period of Harlem Renaissance
• Free write your opinions, ideas, questions you might have about how it reflects the cultural “rebirth” of African Americans during the 1920’s
“Orchestra” 1927How does this piece of art reflect the African
American cultural “rebirth” during the American 1920’s?
1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg
• "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Create a Venn Diagram- Jazz Song Compared to One of Your Choice