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MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Each figure can only be discussed once per group.

-Babe Ruth
–Louis Armstrong
–Gertrude Ederle
–Jack Dempsey
–Rudolph Valentino
–Douglas Fairbanks
–Bessie Smith
–Al Jolson
–Charles Lindbergh
–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture. Why are they similar?

MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Each figure can only be discussed once per group.

-Babe Ruth
–Louis Armstrong
–Gertrude Ederle
–Jack Dempsey
–Rudolph Valentino
–Douglas Fairbanks
–Bessie Smith
–Al Jolson
–Charles Lindbergh
–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture. Why are they similar?

MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Each figure can only be discussed once per group.

-Babe Ruth
–Louis Armstrong
–Gertrude Ederle
–Jack Dempsey
–Rudolph Valentino
–Douglas Fairbanks
–Bessie Smith
–Al Jolson
–Charles Lindbergh
–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture. Why are they similar?

MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Each figure can only be discussed once per group.

-Babe Ruth
–Louis Armstrong
–Gertrude Ederle
–Jack Dempsey
–Rudolph Valentino
–Douglas Fairbanks
–Bessie Smith
–Al Jolson
–Charles Lindbergh
–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture. Why are they similar?

MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous IN YOUR OWN WORDS. Each figure can only be discussed once per group.

-Babe Ruth
–Louis Armstrong
–Gertrude Ederle
–Jack Dempsey
–Rudolph Valentino
–Douglas Fairbanks
–Bessie Smith
–Al Jolson
–Charles Lindbergh
–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture. Why are they similar?

MASS CULTURE grew into existence during the 1920s. People from all parts of the country and from all social classes (rich, middle class, and poor) began to experience the same forms of entertainment and music. People from different backgrounds began identifying with each other around movies, music, sports, or events.

It was also a time where different cultures (African-American, Jewish, Appalachian) began mixing and forming new types of music and entertainment that was distinctly AMERICAN.

New York was the center of this MASS MEDIA that helped to broadcast out the MASS CULTURE to the rest of America.

a. Using the internet, look up one of the following famous figures from the 1920s mass culture and describe why they were famous in 3-4 sentences.

–Babe Ruth

–Louis Armstrong

–Gertrude Ederle

–Jack Dempsey

–Rudolph Valentino

–Douglas Fairbanks

–Bessie Smith

–Al Jolson

–Charles Lindbergh

–George Gershwin

b. How did technology from the 1920s help them become famous?
(Radio, Phonograph, Airplane, Movies, Cars, Etc.)

c. Finally, compare them to a celebrity from today’s mass culture.

Using the protocol from today’s class, analyze a commercial from TV or a magazine.
1. Describe the ad you have chosen
2. Describe how the words, images, and layout make people want to buy the product? (use today’s worksheet and the paragraph below for ideas)

Advertisements often make people feel their life is missing something, and products promise to fill this void. For example, does the product promise to make one more attractive to the opposite sex? To make one’s life easier once they have the product? To make one fit into a group? To be like someone rich, famous, or popular (for example, using celebrities and sports stars)?

Using the protocol from today’s class, analyze a commercial from TV or a magazine.
1. Describe the ad you have chosen
2. Describe how the words, images, and layout make people want to buy the product? (use today’s worksheet and the paragraph below for ideas)

Advertisements often make people feel their life is missing something, and products promise to fill this void. For example, does the product promise to make one more attractive to the opposite sex? To make one’s life easier once they have the product? To make one fit into a group? To be like someone rich, famous, or popular (for example, using celebrities and sports stars)?

Using the protocol from today’s class, analyze a commercial from TV or a magazine.
1. Describe the ad you have chosen
2. Describe how the words, images, and layout make people want to buy the product? (use today’s worksheet and the paragraph below for ideas)

Advertisements often make people feel their life is missing something, and products promise to fill this void. For example, does the product promise to make one more attractive to the opposite sex? To make one’s life easier once they have the product? To make one fit into a group? To be like someone rich, famous, or popular (for example, using celebrities and sports stars)?

Using the protocol from today’s class, analyze a commercial from TV or a magazine.
1. Describe the ad you have chosen
2. Describe how the words, images, and layout make people want to buy the product? (use today’s worksheet and the paragraph below for ideas)

Advertisements often make people feel their life is missing something, and products promise to fill this void. For example, does the product promise to make one more attractive to the opposite sex? To make one’s life easier once they have the product? To make one fit into a group? To be like someone rich, famous, or popular (for example, using celebrities and sports stars)?

Using the protocol from today’s class, analyze a commercial from TV or a magazine.
1. Describe the ad you have chosen
2. Describe how the words, images, and layout make people want to buy the product? (use today’s worksheet and the paragraph below for ideas)

Advertisements often make people feel their life is missing something, and products promise to fill this void. For example, does the product promise to make one more attractive to the opposite sex? To make one’s life easier once they have the product? To make one fit into a group? To be like someone rich, famous, or popular (for example, using celebrities and sports stars)?

UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES–A One Act Play

Characters:
–New England and New York
–The Chesapeake
–The Midwest
–The Deep South
–The West

Ideas:
• New England farmers are struggling to succeed. Why?
• Midwestern farmers can’t buy British goods because of the War of 1812. Where will they turn for products?
• New England merchants can’t trade. What will they do?
• The Deep South gets land hunger (or land fever). Why?
• What happens to the Chesapeake? How will they contribute to the Deep South?
And finally, how does this all lead to conflict?

MIDWEST: Gee, this is sure some good land. Thank heavens that the Native Americans were defeated here and all of this is available. Too bad, but they can’t stand in the way of Progress! Let’s grow some food.

NEW ENGLAND and NEW YORK: Hey, Midwest, we built this here Erie Canal. Now you can send us your food! Here’s some money for it.

MIDWEST: Hey, thanks. Wow, I have money. I want stuff.

NEW ENGLAND and NEW YORK: Oh no! All that food you sold us put our farmers on their crummy land out of business. Now there are a bunch of unemployed and poorer people. A bunch of them are moving to the Midwest. *Pause, think while stroking your beard*

NEW ENGLAND and NEW YORK: Wait. You want stuff. We have rich guys looking for new ways to make money. We also have fast rivers and available workers. We’re going to start some factories! If only there were cheap cotton, we could make so much cloth!

DEEP SOUTH: Did somebody say Cotton? We in fact can grow lots of it! We just need some more land and some workers. Get out of here, Civilized Native American tribes!! Make way for Progress and Cotton! COTTON! COTTON! LAND! LAND! WOOO!

CHESAPEAKE: Dang Nabbit! We can’t grow cotton, and we can’t get that much money for all this tobacco we keep growing. Our slaves keep having children, but we don’t really need all these slaves, just some of them.

DEEP SOUTH: Yo, Chesapeake! We need slaves. We need LOTS of slaves!! More slaves equals more cotton equals more money from those New England (and English) factories! We’ll pay top dollar for your extra slaves!

CHESAPEAKE: Sweet. Just let us just break up these slave families, sending their children to a life of terrible labor in the Deep South where they will never see their families again, and you will have all the slaves you need.

NEW ENGLAND and NEW YORK: Hey, that’s kind of messed up. We in the north don’t do that to people, at least not anymore. You should stop treating your slaves that way. If you pay them like we pay our workers, they will work harder, and you won’t have to beat them and threaten them all the time.

DEEP SOUTH and CHESAPEAKE: Hypocrites!

DEEP SOUTH: You need slavery just as much as we do. Without cotton, America would be broke. Don’t tell us how to grow it.

MIDWEST: Actually guys, that is kind of messed up. I agree with New York and New England. Slavery is getting out of control down south. Stop it.

DEEP SOUTH and CHESAPEAKE: No way. We have always had slavery. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had slaves. Slavery is part of the American way of life, and it is necessary for us to make cotton and to make money. In fact, we are going to have slavery out west.

NEW ENGLAND and NEW YORK: But slavery is un-American. People can’t make their own decisions; people can’t work hard and succeed if they are slaves. That’s the American Dream. You can’t move your slaves to the west. That is for free people to work hard.

DEEP SOUTH: If you don’t leave us alone, we are going to form our own country.

THE WEST: Umm, hey everyone. I’m new here, but it seems to us that the north is right. Slavery is kind of messed up, and it’s not the American Dream. We don’t want slavery out here.

DEEP SOUTH: Oh, you too, huh? Fine! That’s it, we are out of here! If you guys are going to gang up on us and tell us how to live, we’ll just form our own country.

NEW ENGLAND, MIDWEST, THE WEST: You can’t do that! You have to stay as part of America!

DEEP SOUTH AND CHESAPEAKE: Make us! And get YOUR army out of OUR south! *pretend to shoot at them*

NEW ENGLAND, MIDWEST, THE WEST: OW! That’s it, it’s war!

BEGIN THE CIVIL WAR.

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1. Describe how one (1) of the following inventions has changed how you have lived your life. 
a.  The internet
b.  Cell Phones
c.  The Microwave Oven

2. Connect your answer to how people’s lives were changed by a technological innovation of the 1920s.

1. Describe how one (1) of the following inventions has changed how you have lived your life.
a. The internet
b. Cell Phones
c. The Microwave Oven

2. Connect your answer to how people’s lives were changed by a technological innovation of the 1920s.

1. Describe how one (1) of the following inventions has changed how you have lived your life.
a. The internet
b. Cell Phones
c. The Microwave Oven

2. Connect your answer to how people’s lives were changed by a technological innovation of the 1920s.

1. Describe how one (1) of the following inventions has changed how you have lived your life.
a. The internet
b. Cell Phones
c. The Microwave Oven

2. Connect your answer to how people’s lives were changed by a technological innovation of the 1920s.

1. Describe how one (1) of the following inventions has changed how you have lived your life.
a. The internet
b. Cell Phones
c. The Microwave Oven

2. Connect your answer to how people’s lives were changed by a technological innovation of the 1920s.

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