Today's Agenda

Learning Target:
I can discuss the political, social, economic, & religious tensions that divided Americans during the 1920s.

Critical Vocabulary: Mitchell Palmer, “Red Scare,” General Intelligence Division, “Soviet Ark,” “Palmer Raids,” Emergency
Quota Act of 1921, Sacco and Vanzetti Trial, John Dewey, John T. Scopes, “Monkey Trial,” Clarence Darrow, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, “Speakeasies,” “Bootleg,” Al Capone, “Jazz Age,” Nineteenth Amendment, League of Women Voters, “New Woman,” “Flappers,” “Duke” Ellington, Cotton Club, “Harlem Renaissance,” Marcus Garvey, “Back to Africa Movement,” Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Ford Motor Company, Model T, Frederick Taylor, “Babe” Ruth,
The Jazz Singer, Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did the American popular culture change in the 1920s?
2. Citizenship Question: What does the Constitution do? 
   1. sets up and defines the government
   2. draws boundaries of congressional districts
   3. sets codes of conduct for obeying local and federal laws 
   4. determines whether citizens are prosecuted to the full extent of the law
3. Collaborative Learning: The Roaring Twenties Newspaper Project
4. Reflection Question: What is the subject of your newspaper article?

​Homework: The Roaring Twenties Reading