Expert Learning Centers

1. Expert Learning Centers The Roaring ’20’s

2. Presentation Day • Please get into your teams from yesterday. • Take out worksheet: “Learning Centers” • Experts – pick up folder and practice your presentations one more time!

3. Presentation Directions • Experts will have 5 minutes to “tell your story” about your topic. Be enthusiastic and detailed in your description. • Group members are to take bullet-point notes on their worksheet. • Show and describe the pictures to your audience. • To check for comprehension, experts are to ask all the questions on the reading to the group members. Choose specific students to answer each question. • If a student is not able to answer the question, you need to re-teach the information.

4. Standard 11.5: Students analyze the major political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments of the 1920s. 3. Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition). 4. Analyze the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and the changing role of women in society. 5. Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes). 6. Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture. 7. Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.

5. Today’s Objective SWBAT discuss the cultural, technological and social developments of the 1920’s by completing expert learning centers.

6. Directions: Expert Learning Centers1920’s • Your group will be assigned one of the following topics: • 1. Increasing Consumerism • 2. Harlem Renaissance • 3. Prohibition • 4. Popularity of Radio & Movies • 5. Sports Mania • 6. Improved Transportation • 7. Changing Role of Woman

7. Directions: Expert Learning Centers1920’s • STEP 1: groups read info about assigned topic and complete worksheet: The Roaring 20’s Learning Centers • STEP 2: groups choose experts (experts: get copy of worksheet) • STEP 3: experts rotate from group to group teaching about their topic (students complete worksheet: The Roaring 20’s Learning Centers • STEP 4: When worksheet is complete create the acrostic: “TWENTIES” • STEP 5: class chooses best “expert” = 10 points for team

8. Increasing Consumerism Standard 11.5.7:Discuss the rise of mass production techniques, the growth of cities, the impact of new technologies (e.g., the automobile, electricity), and the resulting prosperity and effect on the American landscape.

9. Increasing Consumerism • National income rose: • 1850 - $95 per month • 1918 - $586 per month • New goods: • car, vaccum, fridge, irons, fans • Growth of U.S Economy • 1922-1929 national production increased 34% • Advertising • “psychology of buying” • Make the people want what you sell” • Installment buying • Buy goods on credit • Helped to create the economic boom

10. Model posing for advertisement

11. Billboard Advertising

13. Harlem Renaissance • Standard 11.5.5Describe the Harlem Renaissance and new trends in literature, music, and art, with special attention to the work of writers.

14. Harlem Renaissance • A time period during the 1920’s in which African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. • became known as "The New Negro Movement" and later as the Harlem Renaissance

15. The Harlem Renaissance

16. Harlem Renaissance • The main factors contributing to the development of the Harlem Renaissance: • African-American urban migration • trends toward experimentation throughout the country • and the rise of radical African-American intellectuals.

18. Harlem Renaissance • Jazz first created in New Orleans: • Famous Jazz performers: Louise Armstrong Duke Ellington

19. Music of the Harlem Renaissance • Muskrat Ramble by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (early Jazz) • Downhearted Blues by Bessie Smith (early Blues)

20. Harlem Renaissance • Poets and Writers: • Langston Hughes • Zora Neale Hurston

21. Harlem Renaissance Writers • Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

22. Silhouette by Langston Hughes • Southern gentle lady, Do not swoon. They've just hung a black man In the dark of the moon. They've hung a black man To the roadside tree In the dark of the moon For the world to see How Dixie protects Its white womanhoodSouthern gentle lady, Be good! Be good!

23. Harlem Renaissance Writers • Zora Neale Hurston “Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. “

24. Harlem Renaissance • Painters: • Laura Wheeler Waring • Edwin Harleston • Aaron Douglas

25. Laura Wheeler Waring

26. Edwin Harleston

27. Aaron Douglas

28. Harlem Renaissance • The Harlem Renaissance transformed African-American identity and history, but it also transformed American culture in general. Never before had so many Americans read the thoughts of African-Americans and embraced the African-American community's productions, expressions, and style.

29. Prohibition • Standard 11.5.3Examine the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Volstead Act (Prohibition).

30. Prohibition

31. Prohibition • 18th Amendment (Volstead Act) (1919) • Prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of beverages containing alcohol. • Did not make it illegal to buy, possess, or consume alcohol

33. Federal agents destroying Moonshine

34. Reasons “Dry’s” gave for Prohibition • Close dangerous saloons • Cut crime in half • Improve public health • Cleanse the race of birth defects • Reduce poverty • Cut taxes • Stimulate the economy • Stop on the job accidents and absenteeism • Slow down the labor movement • Prevent riots and violence • Protect and preserve “native” morals

36. Prohibition • Consequences: • People began to drink MORE liquor • Speak-easies: illegal bars • “gangsterism” and crime (Al Capone) • The 18th amendment was overturned by the 21st amendment in 1933

38. Al Capone

40. Popularity of Radio & Movies • Standard 11.5.6Trace the growth and effects of radio and movies and their role in the worldwide diffusion of popular culture.

41. Popularity of Radio & Movies • 1920 – 1st Radio Broadcast • American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) • National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) • The radio was TV in the 1920’s. (music, news, sports, comedies, dramas, mysteries, etc.)

42. Popularity of Radio & Movies • By the mid-20s, movies were big business (with a capital investment totaling over $2 billion) • By the end of the decade, there were 20 Hollywood studios • The greatest output of feature films occurred in the 1920s and 1930s (averaging about 800 film releases in a year) - nowadays, it is remarkable when production exceeds 500 films in a year. • Throughout most of the decade, silent films were the predominant product of the film industry • films were becoming bigger (or longer), costlier, and more polished. • They were being manufactured, assembly-line style, in Hollywood's 'entertainment factories,' in which production was broken down and organized into its various components (writing, costuming, makeup, directing, etc.).

43. The Big 5 Studios Loew's, Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Famous Players-Lasky(Paramount) Warner Bros. RKO 20th-Century Fox

44. Famous Films

45. Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks

46. Rudolph Valentino Lillian Gish

47. Charlie Chaplin

49. Sports Mania • New laws limiting working hours and increased productivity led to more leisure time and income. • Popular sports during the 1920’s • Baseball “America’s Pastime” • Jim Crow laws segregated sports • Babe Ruth • Boxing • Jack Dempsey/Gene Tunney • Golf • Football • Tennis • Swimming • Gertrude Ederle: first woman to swim across the English Channel

50. Jack Dempsey v Gene Tunney Harold Grange