Unit Summary:

Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: American Culture of the 1920s Content Area: Social Studies
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Name: Amie Brewster Grade Level: 11

11.5Studentsanalyzethemajorpolitical,social,economic,technological,andculturaldevelopmentsofthe1920s.
DiscussthepoliciesofPresidentsWarrenHarding,CalvinCoolidge,andHerbertHoover. Analyzetheinternationalanddomesticevents,interests,andphilosophiesthatpromptedattacksoncivilliberties,includingthe PalmerRaids,MarcusGarveysbacktoAfricamovement,theKuKluxKlan,andimmigrationquotasandtheresponsesof organizationssuchastheAmericanCivilLibertiesUnion,theNationalAssociationfortheAdvancementofColoredPeople,and theAntiDefamationLeaguetothoseattacks. ExaminethepassageoftheEighteenthAmendmenttotheConstitutionandtheVolsteadAct(Prohibition). AnalyzethepassageoftheNineteenthAmendmentandthechangingroleofwomeninsociety. DescribetheHarlemRenaissanceandnewtrendsinliterature,music,andart,withspecialattentiontotheworkofwriters(e.g.,Zora NealeHurston,LangstonHughes). Tracethegrowthandeffectsofradioandmoviesandtheirroleintheworldwidediffusionofpopularculture.
Big Ideas:

The exploration of American pop-culture, the different ethnic cultures present, innovations, culture conflicts and how they impacted American society.
Unit Goals and Objectives: The student will see the different expressions of culture in the 1920s. Students will be able to see the technological advances related to culture in the 1920s. Students will be able to recognize the cultural tensions during the 1920s.

The 1920s was a time of great change for the United States not only politically, but also culturally. With the first World War over, people felt more free to express themselves. Women fought for a voice, entertainment was revolutionized, and the faces that represented America greatly differed from what they had ever been before. Times were changing, and fast. The social and cultural changes made a big impact then and on future generations, still affecting us today and making them an important topic to study. Through examining primary sources, thinking critically using the information that they have learned, and applying their information in the unit activities implementing reading, writing, and creativity, students will have an idea of the impact the cultural changes had on American society. Students will be able to "experience" pop culture of the 1920s, see how much technology affects our society by looking at the innovations of the 1920s, and essentially put themselves in the place of a person who lived during that decade. Assessment Plan: Entry-Level: Quickwrite - surveymonkey.com Poll - surveymonkey Brainstorm - spiderscribe Lesson 1 Student Learning Objective: The student will be able to identify the new expressions of culture in the 1920s, such as film, radio, music and dress. Acceptable Evidence: Instructional Students will write a Strategies: script for a short skit x Communication that will incorporate Collection their knowledge of x Collaboration American culture in the x Presentation 1920s. Organization x Interaction
Lesson Activities: Teacher gives presentation including video clips and images on different media and other expressions of culture in the 1920s. Students complete guided notes. Students make a list of the different types of media/culture and state at least three important facts (specific) people, movies, songs, fashion) under each category. In groups, students create a script incorporating these different categories and their details, also using the language (given to them on a sheet with definitions to reference) of the 1920s. Students film the skits and play them in class. Lesson Activities: Teacher assigns webquest search on different innovations of the 1920s. Students choose and research two or three innovation and fill in a chart of what the innovation is, what it does, and how it impacted American society. Student creates a online digital poster on glogster including all of the information from the chart and pictures to go along with the information. Students present their posters to the class.

Formative: skit - vlog (schooltube.com) poster - glogster quiz - quizlet blog -kidblog

Summative: essay - essay map readwritethink.org magazine - madmagz.com

Lesson 2 Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Instructional Objective: Students Students will create a Strategies: will be able to see the glogster online digital Communication technological advances poster that shows their x Collection related to culture in knowledge of how an x Collaboration the 1920s and discuss innovation has x Presentation their impact on impacted American x Organization American society. culture. Interaction

Lesson 3 Student Learning Objective: Students will be able to recognize the cultural tensions during the 1920s. Acceptable Evidence: Students will write a journal showing their knowledge of the different cultural tensions during the 1920s in America. Instructional Strategies: x Communication x Collection x Collaboration Presentation x Organization Interaction
Lesson Activities: Students read real accounts (primary sources of people such as immigrants, African Americans, women, etc.). Students complete a double-journal entry based on the reading. Students write a journal on a community blog site explaining what it might have been like to be a part of one of the groups mentioned using evidence from the video clips and the primary sources.

Unit Resources:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3397 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foooDFF9Dgs&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223&index=7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJuEi-U6pmo&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP7FE8RIbY&list=PLC8D9DC28C3EC5223 https://www.boundless.com/history/from-new-era-to-great-depression-1920-1933/culture-change/culture-roaring-twenties/ http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1920s.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/tch_wjec/usa19101929/3culturesocietychanges1.shtml http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties http://www.huffenglish.com/gatsby/slang.html http://www.history.com/videos/1920s-inventions#1920s-inventions http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm http://www.education.com/study-help/article/beginning-modern-america-1920s/?page=2 http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/movies/talkies.html http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/moving-assembly-line-at-ford http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Radio-Activity-The-100th-Anniversary-of-Public-Broadcasting.html?c=y&page=2 http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=592

Useful Websites:
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