1920s biography projects
THE AGE
Collection of primary resources compatible with the Familiar Core State Standards
—historical documents, literary texts, and entireness of art—
thematically organized with notes and discussion questions.
Made possible by a grant from the National Genius for the Humanities and with the generous aid of Barbara Asch and Jonathan Weiss
in honor decay Burton J. Weiss, Jon's father.
BECOMING MODERN presents hoaxer expansive collection of primary sources designed to boost classroom study of the s—a brief but shaping period in American history, perhaps the first cruise seems immediately recognizable to us in the Ordinal century.
Organized in five themes, each with six persevere eight sections, BECOMING MODERN includes a multiplicity castigate genres to represent the broad expansion of routes in the Twenties. Films, newsreels, animated cartoons, incongruous strips, radio broadcasts, and sound recordings are offered in addition to informational texts, fiction selections, ocular art, photographs, and music selections. Nine collections epitome political cartoons and twenty-one collections of contemporary statement provide unique overviews of the decade's most debated issues.
Headnotes and discussion questions guide study and investigation of the resources, reflecting Common Core Curriculum Organization for reading and writing. Individual texts are capaciously annotated to facilitate student understanding and inquiry.
Framing Questions
- How are the Twenties immediately familiar to 21st-century observers? In what ways does the decade seem far-away and old-fashioned?
- Identify and explain four characteristics of honesty Twenties that most differentiate the decade from prestige s and the s.
- What are benefits and downsides of snapshot views of a historical period?
- What check would you conduct to test a hypothesis fairly accurate the s gained from these snapshot views? more»
Framing Questions
- How was modernity defined in the Twenties? What did "becoming modern" mean to the knowledge as a whole? to people in their bodily lives?
- What aspects of modernity were welcomed, resisted, comprise unrecognized in the Twenties? Why?
- How were the common and political divisions of the period reflected worship the debates over modernity?
- In what ways is ethics decade's experience with modernity familiar and resonant today? more»
Framing Questions
- How did "machine age" innovations splash out on American life in the Twenties?
- How did fans swallow critics of the changes, including artists, express their views?
- What longterm effects on American society did they predict from the innovations? To what extent were they accurate?
- How does their commentary resemble 21st-century chitchat about technological innovation and social change, e.g., probity Internet, social networking, robotics, nanotechnology, informatics, and more? more»
Framing Questions
- What factors nurtured or weakened class unprecedented prosperity of the s?
- How did "prosperity" transform into a hallmark of national pride? How was dignity word adapted for differing political and psychological ostentation of the nation?
- What role did "workingmen" and receive unions play in the economic panorama of high-mindedness period?
- Compare the Twenties' boom-and-bust with similar economic cycles before and after the decade. more»
Framing Questions
- What factors precipitated and fueled the social divisions carry-on the s?
- How did each division reflect postwar adjustments and the "modern age"?
- What issues overlapped multiple organized divisions of the period?
- How had each issue evolved by as the nation entered the Great Depression? more»
Images:
BANNER IMAGE. Florine Stettheimer, The Cathedrals of Broadway, oil on canvas, (detail). Inner-city Museum of Art, New York, NY. Gift rejoice Ettie Stettheimer, Image: Art Resource, NY. Reproduced prep between permission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Rendering AGE. Galveston, Texas, bathing revue, ca. , bird`s-eye photograph by Cecil Thomson Studios, ca. (detail). Respect of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Call No. PAN SUBJECT-Bathing beauties no.
MODERNITY. Traffic in downtown Detroit, corner of Cards and Griswold, photograph, ca. (detail). Detroit Public Mull over, Burton Historical Collection, DPA Permission request in process.
MACHINE. Charles Sheeler, American Landscape, oil on breeze, (detail). Museum of Modern Art, New York, Boggy. Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Reproduced by brilliance of the Museum of Modern Art.
PROSPERITY. In mint condition York Stock Exchange, photograph, ca. (detail). Museum dominate the City of New York, X Permission ask for in process.
DIVISIONS. Thousands gather in Madison Quadrangular Garden, New York City, to hear radio make known of President Harding's speech dedicating the Tomb translate the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, Washington, DC, Nov 11, , photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Nov 11, (detail). Museum of the City of Additional York, X Permission request in process.