Thursday, March 31, 2011

Virtual Time Capsule

You are going to create a virtual time capsule from the 1930s that will tell the people digging it up in 2011 what America was like during the Great Depression. You will:

Choose one from each of the following
Create a glog dedicated to diplaying your choices using links (Don't forget there are 8 total)
Don't forget to explain what each item is on your glog
Turn in a written report detailing what you chose and why you chose it. (One paragraph for each item)

This will count as a project grade and is due on Thursday, 4/14.

Song
Movie
Radio Program
Ticket stub to a sporting event
Article of clothing
Book
Poster of a famous person
Photograph of a famous event

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Study Guide for Twenties Exam

Read Chapter 11

Topics:

Progress vs. Fundamentalism
   Harlem Renaissance
   Rise of KKK
   Science vs. Bible
   Scopes Monkey Trial
   Women's advancement
   Immigration Restriction
   Red Scare
   Sacco and Venzetti

Mass Consumerism
   Assembly line
   Credit vs. Cash
   Laissez Faire
   Advertisements
   Rise of the Radio
   Transportation innovations
   Luxuries become Necessities

Prohibition
   Volstead Act
   Big City Crime
   Enforcement
   Speakeasies

Friday, March 25, 2011

Essay Question for Exam on 1920s

To what extent was the decade between 1920 and 1930 a time of advancement for women, immigrants, and African-Americans?

Monday, March 7, 2011

1920s Magazine Continued US II Honors

Supplement Material:

You will add the following:

2 advertisements
1 graphic (map, chart, etc)
Letter to the editor
Political Cartoon

1920s Magazine US II Honors

Using Microsoft Publisher, you are to complete the following project:

Your job is to create a magazine covering aspects of culture, politics, arts, music, lifestyles and the like from the 1920's. You will create a magazine that is reflective of the time period. Your magazine will be published in the classroom and should be reflective of the 1920's as much as possible. In the course of your project, you will mimic a magazine's content and style, making a 1920's edition that is reflective of that magazine's format.
Magazine Requirements:
  1. You will choose a magazine format which you will imitate. After analyzing the current magazine's format and describing the relevant style and content of the magazine's creators + the typical reader, you will create a magazine that mimics that format. The magazines you can choose from are (most of these magazines did not exist in the 1920's, but we are more concerned with their format):
    1. Time 9. Life
    2. Newsweek 10. Entertainment Weekly
    3. Sports Illustrated 11. People
    4. Vogue 12. Forbes
    5. McCall's 13. Fortune
    6. Vanity Fair 14. Rolling Stone
    7. Harper's 15. Vibe
    8. Ladies Home Journal 16. Outdoors
    9.  
  2. You will create a magazine with the following components according to the format of one above:
    1. Cover Page (Lead story, picture, title of magazine, editors/contributors, & date)
    2. Table of Contents (this has to be created last)
    3. Four feature or news articles. Articles must be written as if they could be in your model magazine during the 1920's (e.g. in a 1920's issue of Time). Each group member is responsible for 1. They can be about any significant event, trend or development during the 1920's.
    4. - Articles should be typed in column format, like a newspaper or magazine
  3. Keep margins of 1 inch all around
....4. -The page on which your article is written should be in magazine format; that is, no large expanses of blank paper. You might wrap the article around a picture or an advertisement.
....5. Your articles must correspond to the date of your magazine and have some perspective of time. For instance, if your magazine is written in 1927, you cannot write about the stock market crash of 1929, and any articles about Babe Ruth must either be about the glorious 1927 season or retrospectives about his still vibrant career.

Glog on Harlem Renaissance

You are to create a layered glog (layered means that when the viewer clicks on a picture or icon, a video or article pops up) detailing the Harlem Renaissance.  It must feature all four of the following elements:
Art
Literature
Music
Theater

You will then write a 6 paragraph essay on your findings (the four middle paragraphs will discuss each of the above mentioned elements) to be turned in on Friday March 11th.  The essay is worth a test grade while the glog, which will be presented on Friday in class, is worth a project grade.  Those who are not prepared on Friday to present will lose 50% of the grade if they need to present on Monday.