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Speakeasy Project The Culture of the 1920’s. Speakeasy Project Next Friday February the 12 th, we are going to turn the Silver LGI into a 1920’s Speakeasy.

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1 Speakeasy Project The Culture of the 1920’s

2 Speakeasy Project Next Friday February the 12 th, we are going to turn the Silver LGI into a 1920’s Speakeasy. You are going to represent one aspect of 1920’s culture and have a conversation with several other members of class about the major issues of the day.

3 Choices 1.Flapper 2.Sports Figure (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Red Grange, Jack Dempsey) 3.Mobster 4.Author (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein) 5.Movie Star (Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo) 6.Fundamentalist 7.Law Enforcement (Elliot Ness, Mitchell Palmer, J. Edgar Hoover) 8.Jazz Musician (Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith) 9.Inventor/Businessman/Aviator (Henry Ford, Wright Brothers, Charles Lindberg, Amelia Earhart) 10.Member of the Harlem Renaissance (W.E.B. Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, A. Phillip Randolph)

4 Questions to Research 1.What is your opinion on Prohibition? 2.What do you think about the rise of Jazz? 3.What is your opinion about Immigration Restriction? 4.What do you think about the Harlem Renaissance? 5.What is your opinion about evolution? 6.Is increased consumerism good for America?


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