The Jazz Age in the 1920s

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The Jazz Age in the 1920s

• Grade 8th
• Unit The Roaring Twenties
• WARNING This unit may create an appreciation of
  jazz, art and literature of the 1920s.

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Table of Contents

• Changing Fashions - People in Societies and
  Culture
• New Music and Musicians-World Interactions,
  American Heritage
• New Generation of Writers-American Heritage
• The Harlem Renaissance- Culture

• Art

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Table of Contents

• Heroes of the Roaring Twenties-Science and
  Technology
• Charles Lindbergh
• Henry Ford
• Democratic Practices
• Censorship?
• Stock Market Crash
• Nineteenth Amendment

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Overview of the Jazz Age

• Why were the 1920s called the Roaring Twenties
  and the Jazz Age?
• Have student preview the answer to this question
  by visiting the following website
• http//www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/
  decade20.htmlevents

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The Roaring Twenties A Revolution?

• Student should watch video The Roaring Twenties
  on the following concepts
• Consumer revolution
• Commercialization of leisure
• Revolution in manners and morals
• automobile culture
• Harlem Renaissance

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People in Societies/CultureChanging Fashions

• Presenting Fast Facts
• A New York City newspaper reported on 09/28/22
  that a young woman wore knickerbockers and a
  coat of mannish cut, done in robins egg blue,
  and swung a bamboo cane. Knee length stockings,
  a masculine collar, and a hat..
• -Frederick Schwarz, The Time Machine
  

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Fads, Knickers and Flappers

• Learn more about this topic by viewing parts of
  several films and hearing clips of radio
  broadcasts.
• Internetwww.sns.com/rbotti/main.htm- Find
  Boarding the Silver Screen in the Flapper
  Station.
• Interpret transparency of the Battle of Big Horns
  p. D-57 in American Nation Resources.
• Recreate a radio show using findings in the
  internet site.

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Harlem Renaisssance
Musicians

• Teachers and Students!
• Duke Ellington Online Activities
  httphttp//dellington.org/lessons/lesson00.html
• http//www.harlem.org/ Students can form a
  complete biography on various artists by picking
  and clicking on them in this photo.

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Harlem Renaissance

• Activities
• Map Mystery-Why Was it a Renaissance? Defines
  the word Renaissance and asks student to
  determine whether it had taken place according to
  a map
• Read Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. Viking,
  1994.
• Complete reproducible pages in American Nation
  Resources p.57 Roots of American Music p.58
  Great Figures in American Music
• Listen to audiocassette Take the A Train by Louis
  Armstrong

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Writers and Authors

• Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea
• Langston Hughes Selected Poems of Langston
  Hughes. New York, Alfred Knopf, 1954.

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Writers and Authors

• Activities
• Biography Flashcard - Who Am I?
• Students are to guess which writer is being
  described based off of information given.
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes.
  Student can connect the rivers that the author
  speaks of with a cultural heritage of African
  Americans.

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Art and Culture

• Writers and artist of the Harlem Renaissance
  often stressed the African Heritage of black
  Americans. What point do you think this artist
  is making?

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The Automobiles

• The 1920s would not be the same without the
  automobile. Students should visit the Henry Ford
  Website.
• An actual visit would make a great field trip
• http//www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/hf

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Charles Lindbergh

• Students should read The Lindbergh Baby
  Kidnapping American History
• Students can formulate a plan to survive in the
  Atlantic with no map, no parachute, and no radio.

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The Nineteenth Amendment
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution
extending the right of suffrage to women. Visit
this website to investigate further http//www.nh
mccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/ decade20.htmlevents
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The Stock Market Crash

• During the 1920s, stocks and bonds were
  frequently sold to investors on the basis of
  glittering promises of fantastic profits -
  without disclosure of any meaningful information.
  The securities laws of the United States were
  developed by Congress in the early 1930s as a
  direct response to these market abuses, which
  were blamed in large part for the disastrous
  Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the ensuing Great
  Depression. As a result, the regulation of
  investment securities is one of the few areas in
  American law that starts with a presumption that
  the regulated conduct is illegal.

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Stock Market Activity-Production/Consumption

• What caused the stock market to crash?
• Visit this website and identify two things that
  could be linked to the boom and bust theory.
• http//www.nyse.com/search/search.html

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Debates

• Was the Jazz Age a revolutionary period?
• Is music a bad influence on people?
• Should music and literature be censored?

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