The 1920s

GUIDING QUESTION:

Two words historians use to describe the 1920s are “normalcy” and “roaring” – In what ways are these monikers accurate or not?

1920s Excerpt Project:

Select 3 of the following figures who came to prominence in the 1920s (you may convince me of someone else on your own if you wish):

Mitchell Palmer
Henry Ford
Al Capone
Clarence Darrow
Margaret Sanger
Babe Ruth
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
T.S. Elliot
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
William Faulkner
Texas Guinan
Hiram Wesley Evans
Jack Dempsey
Charles Lindbergh
“Amos ‘n’ Andy”
Early Hollywood Figures (your choice, of course)
Marcus Garvey
Sinclair Lewis
Frank Lloyd Wright

and…

• Research, collect, and communicate an excerpt from one of their “works”. The excerpt can be written, audio, visual/video etc... BE CREATIVE... do not simply select the first quote you come across... connect /reflect the time period!

• Explain its significance to the time period (How does it reflect the 1920s? Does it uphold or breakdown traditional views of the period? Other conclusions).