Jon Creamer

Tom Renick

ED648

Dr. Helms

The Roaring 20s

Grade Level: 10th Grade US History

Lesson: People of the 1920s

Objective:

• The students will become acquainted with important people of the 1920s. They will understand the role that each individual played as well as their importance to their respective time era. Students will make connections between these people’s ideas and how they are still seen today.

Materials Needed:

• LCD Projector

• Handouts

• History Channel Video: The People of the Roaring 20s.

Websites

• http://cvip.fresno.com/~jsh33/roar.html

• http://home.earthlink.net/~timsamuel/home.htm

• http://www.paulsann.org/thelawlessdecade/index.htm

• http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/

• http://www.geocities.com/thebooming20s/

Student Activity 1

• After receiving the handout on the individuals who played an important role in the 1920’s the student will receive a worksheet.

• Student will be required to answer the following questions: What is that figures opinion about diversity in the U.S. and their main reasons for or against diversity.

Student Activity 2

• Students will be placed in groups.

• Each group will be given a historical figure to represent.

• A press conference will be held of the figures.

• Each member of the group will play a different role including: actor, historian, public relations agent, and investigative reporter.

Student Activity 3

• Students will be asked to explain the difference between all the figures in a 1 to 2 page paper.

• For instance what is the difference between W.E.B. Dubois beliefs as compared to Marcus Garvey’s.

• Each of the figures must be talked about in the paper.

Student Activity 4

• Students will use the word “Twenties” to create an acrostic on a blank sheet of paper.

• Their acrostic must describe six different aspects of the 1920’s and include illustrations for at least two lines.

• An example will be shown in class.

Student Activity 5

• Students will pick one of the historical figures and write a 2 to 4 page paper on the person.

• At least one page must be devoted to their role in the 1920’s.

• The paper must be double-spaced with 12 point font.

People of the 1920s

W.E.B. Dubois

• Helped to found the NAACP

• Wanted blacks and whites to live together peacefully

• Rejected Marcus Garvey’s ideas

Marcus Garvey

• Said his people (blacks) should go back to Africa

• Wanted Segregation of the races.

Hiram Wesley Evans

• Grand Wizard of the KKK

• Hated Blacks, Jews, Immigrants and other minorities.

• Wanted Segregation

Sacco & Vinzetti

• There crime was being immigrants and anarchist.

• Wrongly accused of a paymasters murder.

• Sentenced to death with little and very shaky evidence.

Judge Webster Thayer

• Judge in the Sacco & Vanzetti Murder Trial.

• Did not like immigrants, especially anarchist.

• Very intolerant of those not like himself.

A. Mitchell Palmer

• Involved in the hunts for “reds.”

• Got $500K from congress to fight the war against communists.

• “Red Scare”

• Very Anti-Union

John L. Lewis

• Fought hard for Unions to strive.

• Worked to help laborers.

• Accused of being a communists many times.

Calvin Coolidge

• President from 1923 – 1929.

• Accused often of being the “Do Nothing President”.

• Curbed the number of eastern and southern Europeans allowed into America and disallowed Japanese.