•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