Monday 10/20/25 (DEMON):
• Agenda:
• Finish the remaining three elements of 1920s Culture – Americans Live the Good Life (PDF file below), begun in class on Friday of last week.
• Homework:
• None.
• If absent:
• Download and complete the remaining three elements of 1920s Culture – Americans Live the Good Life (PDF file below), begun in class on Friday of last week. Use 1920s Culture - PPOINT WITH LINKS (PPT file below). Due TUESDAY!!
Tuesday 10/21/25 (DEMON):
• Agenda:
• NOTES – Growth of the Middle Class (PPoint file below).
• Homework:
• None.
• If absent:
• Download, print and read NOTES – Growth of the Middle Class (PPoint file below).
Wednesday 10/22/25 (MAROON) & Thursday 10/23/25 (WHITE):
• Agenda:
• Chromebooks: Using Consumer Items of the 1920s handout (MS Word file below) and the links below as your jumping point, complete 1920s Consumer Culture – Venn Diagram (PDF file below). Use the following resources to see what Americans were buying and how we were being advertised to in the Roaring 20s:
• Watch “Mass Production and Advertising in the 1920s:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJeN6RSqbOc.
• Watch 1920s Vintage Ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHEUFcjaLM.
• Open Consumer Ads of the 1920s (PDF file below).
• http://pinterest.com/stevensandtate/1920s-advertisements/
• http://repository.duke.edu/dc/adaccess - narrow your search range to the 1920s.
• Homework:
• None.
• If absent:
• Download, print and read Consumer Items of the 1920s handout (MS Word file below), and visit the links in the Agenda section above to complete 1920s Consumer Culture – Venn Diagram (PDF file below). Then, answer the writing prompts on the back/2nd page of 1920s Consumer Culture – Venn Diagram (PDF file below). Due FRIDAY!!
Friday 10/24/25 (DEMON):
• Agenda:
• Video introduction to Prohibition…the scope of the problem: “A Nation of Drunkards” (6:04): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0.
• Brief “lecture” using NOTES – Prohibition Document Analysis (PPoint file below). Then, complete Document Analysis – Prohibition (PDF file below) using Document Analysis – Prohibition Documents A-D (PDF file below). We will begin this today, and continue, finish and discuss in-class on Monday!
• Homework:
• None.
• If absent:
• Watch video introduction to Prohibition…the scope of the problem: “A Nation of Drunkards” (6:04): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GECsin42oS0.
• Open and look through NOTES – Prohibition Document Analysis (PPoint file below). Then, complete Document Analysis – Prohibition (PDF file below) using Document Analysis – Prohibition Documents A-D (PDF file below). We began this in class today, and will continue, finish and discuss in-class on Monday!