US HISTORYUnit 4 Week 2

Homework for the Week• Tuesday

• Find a 2nd source for your research outline and take notes on it.• Study vocab for card quiz

• Block Day• Design your perfect Ponzi scheme. 1-2 paragraphs (images

optional)

• Friday• Finish mini-project menu for HW

Agenda, Tuesday, 11/12/2013

• 1920s essay outline• Peer editing• Share out strong thesis statements• Researching

• HW: Find a 2nd source for your research outline and take notes on it.• Study vocab for card quiz

Peer review

• Each partner gets 5 minutes of assistance from their partner.

• Take out your work so far:

1. Together read through what you’ve written

2. Discuss what you need to edit

3. Look at the rubric and see what still needs to be done / Discuss what your next steps are

• Swap and repeat the same process for the 2nd person.

Peer Review: guiding questions• Step 1

• Read the thesis statement• Is it clear? • Is it specific?• Does it present an argument? • Does it outline a clear direction for the rest of your outline?

• Step 2• Read the sub-thesis (body paragraph)

• Step 3• Mark an “E” for evidence to support the thesis and sub-thesis• Is the evidence specific and supportive?

• Step 4• Mark a “C” for citations and check for complete MLA format• (Last name, Pg #)

• Step 5• Read Conclusion• Does it wrap up your argument?

• Step 6• Leave comments (be thorough!)

Model thesis statements

• In groups of 4, choose the strongest thesis statement of the group.

•Write this thesis on the white board.•Share

•What do we like about these thesis statements? Which of the grading criteria do they meet?

Research time

•Use the laptop computers to continue researching your topic. Cornell Notes on from a second source is HW for block day.

Agenda: Wed-Thurs, 11/13-11/14• Vocab Card quiz• HOT ROC• Review Unit 3 test• Ch. 27 – 1920s key events chart• Discuss• Complete thesis statement sentence frame• Vocab: Add speculator to your glossary

• Homework:• Design your perfect Ponzi scheme. 1-2 paragraphs (images

optional)

Nationalism in the 1920s

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-ku-klux-klan-eugenics-and-nativism-definition-movement-social-reactions.html#lesson

HOT ROC• What examples of neutrality and diplomacy do you see in the US foreign policy of the 1920s?

American Politics in the 1920s

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/american-politics-in-the-1920s-transition-corruption-the-teapot-dome-scandal.html#lesson

Republican Era of Presidents• Warren Harding – “Americans want quiet, not war,” “back to normalcy”• Calvin Coolidge – focus on private business, inherited taxes (one term)• Herbert Hoover – private business, associationism, end poverty, façade of

isolationism

The Republican Presidents & The Politics of Normalcy

Did the Republican Era of the 1920s bring peace and prosperity to all Americans? Analyzing the Republican Era (27.2, 27.3, & 27.4)

Event DescriptionDefine/Explain Terms

Who was helped by this & why?

Who was harmed by this & why (inferences are okay)

Harding’s fiscal policy of free enterprise

Teapot Dome Scandal

Hoover allows business consolidation

Florida Land Boom and Ponzi scheme

Dow Jones Industrial Average and speculation

American isolationism

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Dawes Plan

Prompt: Evaluate whether the Republican Era of the 1920s brought peace and prosperity to all Americans?

• Use one of the below sentence frames to help you respond to the prompt or write your own thesis statement:• The Republican Era of the 1920s brought peace and prosperity to

the majority of the American people through __________________, _________________, and ______________________.

• The Republican Era of the 1920s did not bring peace and prosperity to the majority of the American people because of _________________, __________________________, and ______________________.

• While the Republican Era of the 1920s brought peace to the majority of Americans through _____________________, it did not bring prosperity to all Americans because ________________________ largely only benefitted _________________________________.

New Vocab

• Speculator/Speculation• Pg. 349

• Examples:• Stock Market• Housing• Beanie Babies

Bankrupt by Beanie Babies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgDsyj5eLmo#at=20

Homework• Design your perfect Ponzi scheme for Friday• Use page 350• Also, you can think about Bernard Madoff’s scheme, which came to light in 2008, http://money.howstuffworks.com/ponzi-scheme5.htm

Agenda: Friday, 11/15• HOT ROC: Ponzi Schemes• New Vocab: Add Consumer Culture, Popular Culture,

Prohibition, and Mass Media to your glossaries• Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties

• Label notes as Political, Social or Economic• Mini-project menu

• Homework:• Finish mini-project menu for HW

Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties

• HOT ROC: Sell your Ponzi scheme to the class

Popular Culture• http://

education-portal.com/academy/lesson/american-art-pop-culture-literature-of-the-1920s.html#lesson

1920s Popular Culture (vocab term)• There are several key elements in the 1920s culture.

• Questioning authority• Fascination with new things• Consumerism• Leisure time• Mass communication• Contradictions

Questioning authority• The horrors of World War I

scarred people• People felt disillusioned with

government and no longer felt a need to be obedient.

• Young people felt that the older generation had mislead them. Writers like Fitzgerald and Hemingway captured these feelings.

• Young women get more bold and sexy in their fashion and habits.

Fascination with new things• New inventions like radio and movies were instantly popular.

• Newer inventions like planes and cars became more common.

• People liked breaking with tradition and being modern.

• Jazz music captured this sense of freedom and breaking the rules.

Consumerism

• Mass production of goods and the improving economy helped Americans to afford lots of new goods.

• Advertisements became more slick and were used in magazines, on the radio or made into billboards to encourage people to buy stuff.

• Investing in stocks seemed like a surefire way to make money and became common among middle class people instead of just the wealthy.

1920s Advertising

1920s Advertising

1920s Advertising

Leisure Time• The improved economy gave

more free time to people living in cities than they had had before.

• Sports, movies, beach trips, amusement parks and nightclubs became popular outings for the increasing middle class.

• People also enjoyed “taboo” activities like hearing jazz in Harlem nightclubs or going to illegal bars known as speakeasies.

Mass Communication

• Movies and radio shows were enjoyed by people throughout the country.

• For the first time, people were all experiencing the same entertainment.

• Created a common mass culture .

Prohibition• The 18th Amendment outlawed

alcohol in 1919. • At first it was believed that

alcohol would just be illegal in saloons but still legal for people to consume at home.

• When all alcohol was banned, many people felt they were justified in bending or breaking this laws.

• Organized crime grew in cities to supply the people with alcohol.

Prohibition

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/prohibition-of-the-1920s-definition-18th-amendment-results.html#lesson

Mini Project Menu• Use the themes of the 1920s in completing one of the

following creative writing assignments:1. Write a short story in which a young man or woman questions

authority

2. Write the radio broadcast of a sports announcer commenting on Babe Ruth winning a game for the Yankees.

3. Write an advice column to a couple who have gotten caught up in consumerism and are now in debt.

4. Write a news report on a speakeasy raid or a street fight between the cops and bootleggers.

• Use chapter 28, sections 1-4 for assistance, if necessary