1. 7.2 Read and complete the 7.2 SG and charts

2. 7.2 – Cultural Innovations Cultural MovementMain Characteristics Art Literature Popular Culture

3. Cultural MovementMain Characteristics Art Diverse Individual expression influenced by European Art movement Literature Popular Culture

4. Cultural MovementMain Characteristics Art Diverse Individual expression influenced by European Art movement Literature Various styles and subject matter themes of disillusionment and emptiness Popular Culture

5. Cultural MovementMain Characteristics Art Diverse Individual expression influenced by European Art movement Literature Various styles and subject matter themes of disillusionment and emptiness Popular Culture sports heroes Hollywood allure Radio shows Jazz and blues

6. 7-2 Study Guide Answers 1.What did American artists and writers in the 1920s explore? What it meant to be a modern and they searched for meaning in a modern world. 2.What does "Bohemian" mean in relation to artists, writers, and musicians? Aritistic and unconventional 3.Where did artists go to find centers of creativity, enlightenment, and freedom? Manhattan’s Greenwich Village & Chicago’s Southside 4.Whose paintings conveyed a modern sense of disenchantment and isolation? Edward Hopper

7. 7-2 Study Guide Answers 5.What was Carl Sandburg's main theme, and how did he express it? Glorification of the midwest expressed through common speech 6.What writer expressed women's equality and praised a life intensely lived? Edna St. Vincent Millay 7.Who were three poets who used clear, concise images to express moments in time? Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell & William Carlos Williams

8. 7-2 Study Guide Answers 8.How did T.S. Eliot describe the negative effects of modernism? As a world filled with empty dreams and “hollow men” 9.What did Eugene O'Neill's work dramatize? Realistic characters & situations, sometimes tragic 10.How was John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy innovative? It combined fiction, biography, news headlines and prose. 11.What was the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby? The emptiness & superficiality of much of modern society.

9. On the Back of 7-2 Study Guide complete the following for poets and writers p. 420 WriterGenre (poet, novelist) Description or characteristic of work Carl SandburgPoet Common speech to glorify Midwest Eugene O’NeillPlaywright Realistic characters & situations Vision of life- sometimes tragic Ernest Hemmingway Writer- novelist Direct, simple, concise, prose F. Scott Fitzgerald Writer- novelist Colorful, glamorous characters Superficiality of much of modern society

10. 7-2 Study Guide Answers 12.With what did the economic prosperity of the 1920s provide many Americans? More leisure time & more spending money, which they devoted to making their lives more enjoyable 13.What did radio and motion pictures make more popular? Sports, such as baseball & boxing 14.When was the first "talking" picture produced, and what was it? The Jazz Singer - 1927 15.When was one of the first radio broadcasts in history, and what was it? In 1920 the news of the landslide victory of Warren G. Harding in the Presidential election