The Roaring Twenties

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Everything students need to know about The Roaring Twenties!

TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!

Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!
Lectures with graphic organizers.
Documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons. Lotsa mapping.
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Group analysis and debates.
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of the Roaring Twenties” (recall terms). “Can you talk like Calvin Coolidge?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 586 questions.
Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.
    The Roaring Twenties covers:
  • The Presidents: Three presidents – Harding, Coolidge, Hoover. Play “Name that President!”
  • Attacks on civil liberties: The Red Scare in photos, political cartoons, and brief readings. Top Ten Reasons why the Red Scare was dreadful. Debate: Immigration Act of 1924. The KKK.
  • Prohibition: Causes & Effects. Debate: “Resolved, government needs to legislate morality.”
  • The New Woman: The impact of women’s suffrage. Outstanding women of the 1920s.
  • The Harlem Renaissance: The Jazz Age. Marcus Garvey and Black nationalism. Artists, authors, and musicians. Short story by Zora Neale Hurston. Poems by Langston Hughes.
  • Radio & Movies: The impact of radio and film on American culture. Rank the famous people – from best to worst.
  • Mass production: Henry Ford, the assembly line, and the impact of the automobile. Mass production, consumerism, and the rise of debt.
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