Wednesday-Thursday, December 15th-16th

Advanced American History

We are in the beginning stages of the Roaring Twenties exhibitions.  For the remainder of this week, you and your group should be designing your skits, writing scripts, planning performances.  Monday will be a day of rehearsals and exhibitions will take place Tuesday and Wednesday.


American Studies

1920's project work continues.  Project is due on Monday.

Tuesday, December 14th

Advanced American History

1920's Exam.  If absent, be sure to make this up within 3 days.

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American Studies

Today we begin work on a comprehensive project to help us understand America in the 1920's.  You may create one of the four following products:

1.  A newspaper front page focusing on a singular event from the decade
2.  A board game of 20's trivia that could be used for review
3.  A "Decade in Review" style magazine
4.  A newsreel program including footage from a news event, original narration, music and an advertisement.

You will have 3 days of class time in the lab to work on your product.  Projects are all due at the beginning of class on Monday.

Monday, December 13th

Advanced American History

Here is the sequence of events in class today:

1.  Review NHD calendar for the next month -- Meetings begin Jan 3rd and the UWGB field trip is Jan. 11.
2.  Discussion -- The Harlem Renaissance.  Understand the legacy of this trans formative era of US History
3.  Review for Exam

Reminder:  1920's exam --Tuesday

Duke Ellington

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American Studies

The prosperity of the 1920's was offset by much conflict and tension in American society.  Review Ch. 11. 3 to gain a sense of differing viewpoints on a variety of issues related to social and cultural tension.

Monday, December 6th

Advanced American History

Our examination of the 1920's begins today with a discussion of the 1920's as both a period of great prosperity and significant frustration.  Standardized mass production coupled with higher wages at the beginning of the decade led to the development of a great age of consumerism.  People with more money and free time demanded the new technologies of the decade, and this demand led to factories employing more people. 

Despite this economic boom, many were uncomfortable with the pace of modernization, and traditional rural patters were being upset by urban influences and new technologies. 

Radio broadcasting from the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse during a basketball game -- 1922

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American History

Today's class focused on an introduction to some of the events and people in the "Age of Wonderful Nonsense"....the 1920's.  From politicians like Calvin Coolidge to sports stars like Babe Ruth to heroes like Charles Lindbergh, modern America was born in the 1920's.