1. Analyze the Primary Source What is it saying/suggesting?
“They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I don't know if I realized as soon as I began seeing them that they represented the wave of the future, but I do know I was drawn to them. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre- World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about.” ― Colleen Moore

2. Changes in Culture
America in the 1920s

3. Changes in Culture America was changing
In a minute
Many of the nativists also wanted to keep “traditional values”
Trends glorified youth and freedom
Big changes for society and women.

4. Women in the 1920s
Women got the right to vote in 1920 and start to move away from traditional roles
Start to attend college and pursue careers (financial independence)
Relationships change – focus on friendship and romance
Flappers
Birth control increases

5. Think about it…..
With a partner try to create a list of ways women's lives might change as a result of the introduction of more widespread birth control usage / access to education? – You have 2 minutes!!!!

6. Religious Fundamentalism
Fundamentalists believed the Bible to be literally true w/o error
Evolution (science) vs. Creationism (Bible)
Scopes Monkey Trial – A teacher arrested for teaching evolution in Tenn.
Conflict in Americas classes

7. Turn and Talk – Analyze this image

8. What is Prohibition?
Banning production sale and consumption of alcohol
18th Amendment
The Volstead Act gave authorities power to enforce the law

9. Results of Prohibition
Huge profits available for bootleggers / rum runners
Led to arise in Organized Crime (Al Capone)
Many ignored the law -headed to speakeasies
Cops took bribes
Did limit alcohol consumption
21st Amendment repeals the law

11. Exit Ticket
Why didn’t prohibition accomplish what was intended? Could it work today?
How did the prohibition affect other parts of American society?

12. Today’s Activity
Assign each person in your group one of the following topics from which can also be found on pgs : a) Modern American Art, b) Poets and Writers, c) Movie and Radio Shows, d) Sports/Inventions
Watch This: Video
Create a 4 square sheet (1 box for each section) and record 3-5 key ideas from each section.
Read your section and share out 3-5 key ideas with your group.
Group share out to follow

13. Today’s Activities Group 1
Assign each person in your group one of the following topics from pgs :
a) Modern American Art,
b) Poets and Writers,
c) Movie and Radio Shows,
d) Sports
Create a 4 square sheet (1 box for each section) and record 3-5 key ideas from each section.
Group 2
“Political Cartoons Activity”
-Utilizing your knowledge of this time period use OOPS to break down the political cartoons for Day 1 and 2
Be sure to include information as to how this relates to other time periods.