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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)


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