Comparing and Contrasting the 1920’s to our Culture Today

 

 

 

Introduction: the decade

 

The 1920’s experience

 

Stock market crash

 

Project

 

Teacher help

 

Review:

What should already be done before starting the project?

Page 1- The 1920’s experience

·        ½ page of notes involving what you learned from the 1920’s experience website

·        Beneath the ½ page of notes should be 1 paragraph about how new technology effected America in the 1920’s (see The 1920’s experience webpage for details)

Page 2- The stock market crash

·        ½ page of notes (see Stock market crash website)

·        Below notes, 2 or 3 sentences on the theories that caused the crash

 

 
                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What to do with this new information?                                  

         Now that you have successfully read all about the Roaring 20’s and the beginning of the Great Depression, it is time to put this knowledge to use. What not a better way to learn more about the 1920’s, than to make a book about it. A BOOK! That sounds hard and long, but do not be deceived. The length of the book will only be twelve pages. It will provide people with important information as well as include many colorful pictures!

 

What exactly is involved in making this book?

         Well, in this book every left hand page will contain two pictures. Each picture should have a label of what it is underneath. One will be of someone, or something that is important now and the other will be of that same thing from the 1920’s. Then on the left hand side will be at least two paragraphs containing (1)what the pictures stand for, (2)how the two pictures are related, (3)why you picked them, and (4)why they are important to our American history. You will need to design your cover page and come up with 6 topics that you can put with pictures. The pictures can either be hand drawn or if you have a graph, you can paste it. All the materials should be provided. All you need is yourself and a little bit of creativity!

 

* Make sure that you check for grammatical errors, and produce a neat and organized paper.

Example:

Here is an example of a woman flapper  from the 1920’s verses a woman in a nice suit from 2005. These fashions are important because they show how women have grown and changed over the years…

 
   

 

Flapper from 1920’s

 

 

Woman in business suit from 2005

 

     Created by: Lacey Brown

     Last modified: November 18, 2005