1. No Warm Up: VPP Lesson 9 Quiz
Have your warm up journals on your desk for a warm up check during the vocab quiz.
Periods 1, 3, 5, and 7 will have 8 entries.
Periods 2 and 6 will have 7 entries.
If you borrowed a copy of Huckleberry Finn, place that on your desk to be collected.

2. The Roaring Twenties

3. Annotation Steps
As you read the novel, here are elements to consider marking within your novel:
Characterization
Figurative Language/Literary Devices
Symbolism
Conflict
Themes
Historical Connection
Create a key/legend in the front cover of your book with sticky notes to show these:
Red=characters
Purple=Fig. Lang.
Blue=symbolism
Green=Conflict
Pink=Themes
Orange=Historical Connection
Use whatever colors you have. This is just an example.
If you have your own copy of the novel, you can do this with highlighter colors, too.

4. Timeline of Events 1905 Einstein forms the Theory of Relativity
1910 Sigmund Freud lectures on psychoanalysis
1912 The Titanic sinks
World War I
1919 World Series
(White Sox vs. Reds)

5. 1920 19th Amendment grants women the right to vote
1925 Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1927 Charles Lindbergh’s 1st trans-Atlantic flight;
The Jazz Singer, 1st talking picture
1929 Stock Market Crash

6. A Decade of Reaction
World War I, the “war to end all wars,” shook the world to its foundations.
Millions dead on the battlefields of Europe
Unknown countless numbers dead on desolate foreign battlefields
30 million dead from influenza
And then there
were the living
“dead”
The beginning of
plastic surgery to
fix horrible
injuries sustained
during the war.

8. Consumer Society Mass production Easy credit Advertising
Hollywood vs. Wall Street

9. Role of the Automobile Representation of: a) urban life
b) Independence
c) social class

10. “New Morality” Rebellion against Victorian ideals
Flappers and style of dress
Prohibition: 18th Amendment
Speakeasies & bootlegging
Organized crime-Al Capone

11. The Flapper
A new type of independent American woman, the flapper, burst upon the scene. They could be identified by:
A plunging neckline
A scandalously high hemline
A rail-thin figure
Tight clothing
A short, “bobbed” hair cut
And either a drink, a cigarette, or both in hand.
And one heckuva attitude.

12. What do these photos tell you about the origins of prohibition?

13. SPEAKEASIES
Yep, booze was illegal, but if you had the right connections you could still find a place to kick back and enjoy a cool one.
These illegal drinking establishments were called “speakeasies.”
Obviously, they were not well-kept secrets . . .
Speakeasies got their name from the tone you had to use to gain entrance and order alcohol you had to be careful, and “speak easy.”

14. “The American Dream” America as the “New Eden”
The shifting role of the middle class
Optimism
Triumph of the individual