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1920’s/Great Gatsby Group Project:
Step 1: You are assigned a group, and a specific aspect of the 1920’s to research (one of the seven below)
Step 2: Answer the focus questions using the websites below. Your answers must be in your own words
(if you quote anything, it must be properly cited).
Step 3: You MUST also come up with TWO interesting facts about your assigned aspect of the 20’s. (Things NOT discussed in your focus
questions). Discuss why you found these facts to be interesting.
Step 4: Create a powerpoint (3-5 slides) to teach the class about your subject
Your powerpoint must use a variety of images/words (all words must be in your own, or cited
properly)
Powerpoints will be presented on Thursday 1/24
All group members will need to talk during your presentation
A rubric for your presentation will be coming…
Topic 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Focus on ...
What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's relationship with money like? What was his social
status? Which people and events most influenced him?
1. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
2. http://www.neabigread.org/books/greatgatsby/ggatsby06.php
3.http://www.biography.com/articles/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-9296261
4.http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Fitzgerald-F-Scott.html
Topic 2: Money & American Dream
Focus on ... What was the American Dream in the 1920s? What was the economy like in the 1920s? What was the money
mentality of the 1920s?
Topic 3: Prohibition, Crime & Scandal
Focus on ...
What is prohibition? What kind of scandals did prohibition lead to? What is a speakeasy? What types of illegal activities were popular? Why was the Leopold and Loeb trial so disturbing? Important: What was happening to concepts of morality during this era?
1. http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/04109/301333-42.stm
2. http://prohibition.osu.edu/
3. http://alliance.ed.uiuc.edu/cdrom/Hononegah/prohibition/speakeasies-s.htm
4.http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
5. http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/speakeasies
6. http://chicago.urban-history.org/evt/evt02/evt0200.shtml
7. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=449
Topic 4: Racism
Focus on ... Why was racism and racist violence so rampant in the 1920s?
Topic 5: Women and Flappers
Focus on ... How were women's lives different during the 1920s? What was a flapper? What was the flapper lifestyle?
Why did flappers become prominent? What was the significance of the 19th amendment?
1. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/NewWoman/newwomen-page1.htm
2 http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm
3. http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
4. http://www.trailend.org/dow-jazzage.htm
5. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
6. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=458
Topic 6: Social Life in the Jazz age
Focus on ... What were the fashion styles of the era? How important was entertainment to society, and what forms did it take?
How were the youth of the era rebellious? Why was jazz considered so evil? How did WWI affect American ideals?
Topic 7: Technology & Daily Life
Focus on ... What were some of the scientific advances and inventions of the 1920s, and how did they make
people's day-to-day lives VERY different from previous generations? Why were cars considered "the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920's"?
1. http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/science/science.htm
2. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=454
3. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
4. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1920s.html
5. http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm
6. http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm
Step 1: You are assigned a group, and a specific aspect of the 1920’s to research (one of the seven below)
Step 2: Answer the focus questions using the websites below. Your answers must be in your own words
(if you quote anything, it must be properly cited).
Step 3: You MUST also come up with TWO interesting facts about your assigned aspect of the 20’s. (Things NOT discussed in your focus
questions). Discuss why you found these facts to be interesting.
Step 4: Create a powerpoint (3-5 slides) to teach the class about your subject
Your powerpoint must use a variety of images/words (all words must be in your own, or cited
properly)
Powerpoints will be presented on Thursday 1/24
All group members will need to talk during your presentation
A rubric for your presentation will be coming…
Topic 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Focus on ...
What was F. Scott Fitzgerald's relationship with money like? What was his social
status? Which people and events most influenced him?
1. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html
2. http://www.neabigread.org/books/greatgatsby/ggatsby06.php
3.http://www.biography.com/articles/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-9296261
4.http://www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Fitzgerald-F-Scott.html
Topic 2: Money & American Dream
Focus on ... What was the American Dream in the 1920s? What was the economy like in the 1920s? What was the money
mentality of the 1920s?
- http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/hist427/texts/1920seconomy.htm
- http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/essays/eras.html
- http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/97/dream/thedream.html
- http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/American_Dream/id/1910369 (Scroll down)
- http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
Topic 3: Prohibition, Crime & Scandal
Focus on ...
What is prohibition? What kind of scandals did prohibition lead to? What is a speakeasy? What types of illegal activities were popular? Why was the Leopold and Loeb trial so disturbing? Important: What was happening to concepts of morality during this era?
1. http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/04109/301333-42.stm
2. http://prohibition.osu.edu/
3. http://alliance.ed.uiuc.edu/cdrom/Hononegah/prohibition/speakeasies-s.htm
4.http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441
5. http://americanhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/speakeasies
6. http://chicago.urban-history.org/evt/evt02/evt0200.shtml
7. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=449
Topic 4: Racism
Focus on ... Why was racism and racist violence so rampant in the 1920s?
- http://chicago.urban-history.org/evt/evt01/evt0100.shtml
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=442
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=443
- http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/blues/klan1.html
Topic 5: Women and Flappers
Focus on ... How were women's lives different during the 1920s? What was a flapper? What was the flapper lifestyle?
Why did flappers become prominent? What was the significance of the 19th amendment?
1. http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/NewWoman/newwomen-page1.htm
2 http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/worldnews/worldn.htm
3. http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
4. http://www.trailend.org/dow-jazzage.htm
5. http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm
6. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=458
Topic 6: Social Life in the Jazz age
Focus on ... What were the fashion styles of the era? How important was entertainment to society, and what forms did it take?
How were the youth of the era rebellious? Why was jazz considered so evil? How did WWI affect American ideals?
- http://www.rambova.com/fashion/fash4.html
- http://chicago.urban-history.org/ven/dhs/dhs.shtml
- http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade20.html
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=455
- http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=447
- http://www.trailend.org/dow-jazzage.htm
- http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
- http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm
Topic 7: Technology & Daily Life
Focus on ... What were some of the scientific advances and inventions of the 1920s, and how did they make
people's day-to-day lives VERY different from previous generations? Why were cars considered "the most important catalyst for social change in the 1920's"?
1. http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/science/science.htm
2. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=454
3. http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/time_roaring.htm
4. http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1920s.html
5. http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/twentieth_3.htm
6. http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm