THE 1920s in the USA (Axes 1 et 2)
... also named THE ROARING TWENTIES or THE JAZZ AGE
a) VOCABULARY with activities to memorize: Quizlet A_20s
b) USEFUL VOCABULARY on the American Dream: Quizlet B_American Dream
c) Learn some more and practice the relative pronouns with this grammar activity
d) A TIMELINE:
F.S. FITZGERALD
Check your knowledge about the author of The Great Gatsby with this quiz about his biography
the Fitzgeralds, Scott and Zelda
Watch the trailer to the 2012 movie adaptation and complete your worksheet.
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Migrant mother, 1936
When the Dream turned to Nightmare, Dorothea Lange, an American documentary photographer and a journalist,
was asked to take photos during the Great Depression era, following the 1929 Wall Street crash, by the Farm Security Administration,
along with other photographers such as Walker Evans.
Read this article written by Steinbeck in 1936 about the poverty he witnessed in migrants' camps in California at the time.
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HEROES of the TIME
The real Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow,
famous bank robbers during the Great Depression,
who died in 1934 shot by the Police, aged 24 and 25.
Louise Brooks, famous actress during the late 20s and early 30s,
also known as Loulou thanks to one of her films,
while cinema in Hollywood was growing to become one of the most lucrative industries in the USA.
A webquest on AL CAPONE and ELIOT NESS
A WEBSITE about the real SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
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Useful website about Some Like It Hot, by Billy Wilder (1959) with script extracts
listening TASK: extract 1 - train station
listening TASK: extract 2 - Daphne / Jerry is confused
Do you remember? QUIZ about "Some Like it Hot"
The Godfather II, by Coppola (book p.77) - an extract: Ellis Island
The gangster film, a genre by itself - the genre explained by Scorcese (film director of Taxi Driver): Gangster Movies and Film Noir
Good reads: The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1925, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck in 1939, here is an excerpt.
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