1. What were the Characteristics of Education & Culture During the 1920s?
Al-Madinah School || 11th Grade Boys & Girls
United States History & Government
November 23, 2018

2. How did Education Change?
Factors That caused more students to go to schools
Prosperity of America
Business & Industries’ requirement for a more educated workforce
Number of Change of High School Students
1914: 1million
1926: 4 million

3. Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college
Changes in School
Before 1920s: High Schools were preparing students for college
During 1920s schools offered wide range of courses
Vocational training
Home economics
Increased immigrant children in high schools

4. Impact of Education Increased Literacy
More people were reading newspapers
Newspaper Chains rose
National magazines became popular
News Magazines also started
Magazines with fictions and articles
Radio became a powerful mass media
Created shared national experience

5. Popular Culture and New Heroes
More Money led to having new ways of spending
Fads: puzzles and games
Sports events
Golden Age of Sports &New Heroes
Athletes became popular
Charles Lindbergh: Cross Atlantic Flight

6. Popular Culture and New Heroes
Cinema became national pastime
The Jazz Singer (First Movie with Sound)
Steamboat Willie (First Animated Movie)

7. Popular Culture and New Heroes
Artists & Artistic Traditions
First break from European traditions
Eugene O'Neil: Wrote plays to depict confusion in American life
George Gershwin: New blend of American Jazz Music
Edward Hopper & Georgia O’Keeffe showed new style of American painting

8. Popular Culture and New Heroes
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age”/ Earnest Hemingway another novelist
Writer Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
Edna Vincent Millay (Poet)
Some disliked new American Culture calling it “lost generation” and left the country, like Gertrude Stein

9. Homework
Questions 1, 2, 4 & 5 on page 657

10. What is Harlem Renaissance and What Impact did It Have?
United States History and Government
Br. Siraj
Friday, November 23, 2018

11. African Americans & Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration brought a lot of African Americans to Northern Cities
NAACP worked for the advancement of them
Writers and Artists worked for NAACP
James Weldon Johnson, poet & lawyer, fought for the anti-lynching laws
Marcus Garvey appealed to black pride – Formed UNIA

12. Harlem Renaissance
The literary and artistic movement of African Americans that began at Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
Calude McKay, Poet, urged for resisting discrimination
Langston Hughes: Wrote about the daily life of the working class blacks.
Zora Neale Hurston: Collected the folklore of poor southern blacks

13. Paul Robeson, actor and Singer
Louis Armstrong, the most influential Jazz musician
Duke Ellington, Jazz pianist and composer
Besse Smith & Josephine Baker, Singers

14. Homework
Terms and Names
Main Ideas Questions 1, 3, 5, and 7
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