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1 Life in the 1920s Partners will choose a topic from the following and create a presentation to teach the rests of the class. Each topic can only be chosen once.

2 The “New Woman” Flappers

3 Leisure fun and fads Dance marathons Beauty contests Flagpole sitting

4 Mass Entertainment Movies Silent Films Charlie Chaplin

5 Sports College football “Black Sox” scandal Red Grange, Jim Thorpe, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig

6 Celebrities and Heroes Actors and athletes Charles Lindbergh Amelia Earhart

7 Religion Hollywood style entertainment Fundamentalism

8 Music The Jazz Age Blues Harlem’s Cotton Club Duke Ellington, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway

9 Visual Arts Urban industrial settings of isolation Photography Murals

10 Architecture Frank Lloyd Wright Boom in skyscrapers

11 Harlem Renaissance Growing African American pride in their heritage Langston Hughes Theatre, literature

12 Literature Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories of disillusionment

13 Fashion Suits Skirt hemlines Hairstyles Makeup Ready-to-wear fashion

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