1. Education and Popular Culture in the 20s How do schools & mass media shape the Jazz Age?

2. Education on the rise Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s ● Secondary schools focus on preparing students for college or job market (vocational education) ● Student dress, slang & behavior become “norm” for pop culture in the 1920s ● As school costs increase, taxes increase for the average citizen

3. Fads of the Roaring 20s PUEZLZ W R O C D R S S O 1) Flagpole sitting 2) Dance Marathons 3) Barnstormers 4) Games 5) The Charleston http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0&featur e=related

4. Mass Media ● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases causing more literacy ● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news & entertainment

5. Sports Heroes Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster Gertrude Ederie was first woman to swim the English Channel Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis Jack Dempsey dominates boxing

6. Entertainment of the 1920s ● 1928: First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” ● 1927: 1 st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” (Al Jolson) ● Charlie Chaplain: most famous start of silent movie era ● Gloria Swanson is best known actress of 1920s http://ww w.youtu be.com/ watch?v =79i84x YelZI&s afe=acti ve http://www. youtube.co m/watch?v =PIaj7FNH njQ&safe= active http: //ww w.yo utub e.co m/w atch ?v= Pk- zi1U e9C 4&s afe= activ e

7. More Celebrity Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle was a well known actor, writer and club owner Coco Chanel was a famous fashion designer George Gershwin was a classic theatre composer of 1920s Georgia O’ Keefe was a famous 1920s large format artist

8. Famous American Writers ● F. Scott Fitzgerald writes Great Gatsby (emptiness of wealth) & coined the term “jazz age” ● Ernest Hemingway = Criticizes the glorification of war, he and Fitzgerald part of “Lost Generation” ● Edna St. Vincent Millay = wrote poems celebrating youth & women’s independence ● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to win the Nobel Prize in literature

9. Aviation Heroes Charles Lindbergh  1 st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris  Becomes instant celebrity/first airline “Pan-Am” is born  1 st person to fly from HI to CA (1935)  Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)  1 st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932) Amelia Earhart

10. 1920s Culture Video Questions 1. What is revolutionary about Henry Ford’s cars? 2. What Ford car changed America and why? 3. How did customers learn to drive? 4. How did cars change the American culture? 5. What development was built for celebrities?