1. Homework Complete reading pages 704-712 in textbook by tomorrow
Answer questions 1-12 in your packet

2. Simultaneous Contrasts: Sun and Moon
Robert Delaunay
French Artist

3. Modernism & the Effects
America’s journey toward cultural melting pot

4. Historical Backdrop WWI (1914-1918) Trench Warfare
Lost generation of European men
US entered in 1917 after Americans killed on an English ship
Sense of disillusionment

5. Post WW I Economy boom Women’s vote (1919) Prohibition (1920-1933)
Auto industry/assembly line
Movie industry
Radio and Jazz
Women’s vote (1919)
Prohibition ( )
Bootlegging
Speakeasies
Gang warfare
New Morality
Short skirts
Bobbed hair
Slang

6. Great Depression, WWII, Peace
Stock Market Crash 1929
By million people are out of work
Roosevelt—president in 1932—New Deal
America entered WWII after Pearl Harbor attack in 1941
Arrival of Peace and Atomic Age—1945

7. Literature of the time
Fragmented: omitted exposition, transitions, resolutions, explanations
Themes are implied
World begins to notice Americans
TS Eliot (1949) & William Faulkner (1949) Pulitzer Prize winners
Stream of consciousness—develops psychology
Simple, journalistic style (esp. Hemingway)
Lost Generation—disillusioned by WWI move to Europe (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Pound, Eliot)