It is with sadness that I need to inform you that IRHS has lost one of our students over the weekend. Additional information will be made available as it is released. Counselors are available to speak with you as needed and on a walk in basis. We are here to support ou however we are able and encourage you to contact any adult should you need support.

Sincerely Ms. Burnett IRHS Principal

Tuesday 1/14/13RAP

How would you describe leisure activities of today?

Today:

Wednesday 1/14/15

RAP1. What type of radio show is your group going to do?

Today:• CE presentations• Radio show work—commercials, type of show,

roles, typist• Ch. 12.1 – PPT on Thursday—notes due Thursday.

– Standard of living-– Credit-– Mass media-– Flapper- – New Ways of buying-– Route 66- Page-384-385– Youth and the “Roaring twenties”-– Describe changes that industrialization, the automobile, advertising, and the new youth

culture brought to American life.

Please open your text to page376

• Growth of the Middle Class

– Read and complete your notes for Ch. 12.1.– Be prepared to answer the questions below

the pictures, charts, and graphs from this section.

• NOTES DUE Friday!

Thursday 1/15/15RAP1. Look at the chart on page 377: -- Which area did income decrease?2. Look at picture and map on page 378: --How does this illustrate

Americans’ rising standard of living?3. Look at the illustration on page 379. --Answer the questions below the

illustration.4. Look at the picture of youth on page 382; and the flappers on page 383---

answer the question for this picture.

Would you have liked to live during the 1920s? Look at the timeline of New Consumer Products, 1920-1929; page 377

(could use in your radio show)

Today:– PPT Ch. 12.1 – QUIZ CH> !!– Radio Show 25 minutes or so– HW: Read and work on Ch.12.2 –DUE Friday!!

• SWBAT: Describe leisure life in the 1920s.Understand new sports heroes, music, and literary greats.

Objective: Describe how and why Americans standard of living rose.Describe the effects of the automobile on the economy and culture of the 1920s.Understand how advertising and mass media affected American buying habits and fashions.

Culture of Time—Pages 370-371

• The Roaring Twenties– Charlie Chaplin– Bessie Smith– Charleston and tango– Daredevils– fads

Ch. 12 .1 –Growth of the Middle Class– Standard of living- middle class Americans were able to improve their lives:

necessities and luxuries were more available and affordable.

– Refrigeration—ate more fruits and vegetables

– Vacuum cleaners

– Electric irons

– Toasters

– Washing machines

– Radios

– Photographs

– Telephone

GROUPS HURT• South was not electrified for years, along with many other rural areas.• Farmers were hurt---low wages and overproduction• Coal miners—people using electricity instead of coal to heat.• Cotton farmers---people using less cotton.

• America hits the road– Autos add to other industries

• Steel, lead, nickel, gasoline, glass, rubber.• Garages, filling stations, hot dog stands, restaurants, tearooms,

tourists’ roadside camps.• Paved roads• Route 66—Chicago to Santa Monica• Model T to the Model A

– New colors—not just black

– Dating – Sunday outings– Vacations– Shopping– Debt

• Installment plan

– Credit- putting money down and paying the balance in installments.

– New Ways of buying-• New chain stores

–A & P, Safeway, Piggly Wiggly, Sears Roebuck, and J.C. Penney, F.W. Woolworth

– Mass media- modes of communication that reached large numbers of people

• Newspapers• Radio stations• Billboards• National magazines• BUY! BUY! BUY!

– Youth and the “Roaring twenties”-• Fascination with youth after WWI

– Adults tried to act like children• Young people model of fashion, dress, music, and

language• Fads—15 year old sits on a flagpole for 10 days, 10

hours, 10 minutes, and 10 seconds in 1929.

– Flapper- • Opposite of Gibson girl (ideal feminine beauty before

WWI: long, flowing hair, womanly figure, tiny waist, covered legs

• Flapper—1920s—bound her chest, lifted her hemline, and rolled down her stockings; she bobbed her hair short and wore a close fitting hat; applied makeup with a bold hand, and smoked!

– Route 66- linked Chicago to Santa Monica; opened on Nov. 11, 1926, main arteries of the national highway system.

– Describe changes that industrialization, the automobile, advertising, and the new youth culture brought to American life.

At the Movies• First talking movie –

The Jazz Singer

• Movie Star – – Rudolph Valentino– Mary Pickford

New American Heroes• Baseball

– Babe Ruth– Oscar Charleston

never allowed to play in the major leagues.

• Boxing– Jack Demsey

– Gene Tunney

Sports Heroes cont.• Tennis –

– Helen Wills

• Football –– Red Grange

• Golf– Bobby Jones

• Swimming –– Gertrude Ederle –

swam the English Channel, beat the fastest man’s time by 2 hours.

The Lone Eagle• Charles

Lindbergh-– Solo flight across

the Atlantic in 1927

• Amelia Earhart-– First woman to

fly across the Atlantic in 1928.

New Rhythms• Blues –

– Grew out of work songs and field chants of enslaved Africans.

– Bessie Smith– Ma Rainey

• Jazz– Began in New Orleans and

moved north during the Great Migration.

– Louis Armstrong – most famous jazz musician of all time. Trumpet

– King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band– Paul Whiteman and Bix

Beiderbecke

• Dance– Charleston

Time to Read• Syndicates –

– Chains of newspapers under centralized direction.

• Tabloids– Small pages and large

type.– Made ideal reading for

crowded, rocking subway cars.

The Lost Generation• Writers who began

to attack American materialism.

• Cheaper to live in Europe.

• Writers– Ernest Hemingway– F. Scott Fitzgerald– Gertrude Stein

Harlem Renaissance• Northern Racism

led African American writers to express their own identity.

• Langston Hughes --1932

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Wrote about racism, life, obstacles, etc.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the

kitchen When

company comes,

But I laugh, And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow, I'll be at the

table When company

comes. Nobody'll dare

Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen,"

Then. Besides, They'll

see how beautiful I

am And be ashamed–

I, too, am America.

Please work on your radio show.

• Radio Show:

• HW: Ch. 12.2 read and add notes to 12.2 PPT

• DUE on Friday

Rest of the day…

• Work on your Radio Show-– Start breaking up the show

• Commercials --2• Script• Music• 1920s Vocabulary –at least 6

1. HW: Open to Ch. 12.2; the Jazz Age– As you read please take notes on Ch. 12.2 DUE

Friday!2. For the last 25 minutes of class get with your

radio groups.