1. Period 7 (1890 – 1945) [PART 1 – (1890 – 1932)]
Days 4 - 6

2. Warm-Up: Assessing Prior Knowledge
What do you know about the Roaring (19)20s?
Where does your knowledge come from?
Which conceptions do you think are accurate? Inaccurate?

3. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Have you ever witnessed an event then read about it later in the newspaper or on the Internet?
Do “eyewitness accounts” of events always match up with those of a reporter?
What is the value of an “eyewitness account”?
What problems might a reporter encounter in examining first-person accounts of an event?

4. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Read your assigned excerpt and determine…
Who wrote it?
What is it about?
When and where it was written?
For what audience was the writer writing?
Was it written at the time of the event or at a later date?
What was the intent of the writer?
Is the writing about an interview or an event the author actually witnessed?
Does the account contain humor or satire?
In your opinion, is the account historically accurate?

5. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Babe Ruth

6. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
John T. Scopes

7. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Robert Goddard

8. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Herbert Hoover

9. The Twenties: Eyewitness Accounts
Al Capone

10. The Roaring ‘20s
If someone says it better, let them say it… CRASH COURSE #32
While watching, complete the fill-in notes!

11. Group Work: American Life in the “Roaring Twenties”, 1919 – 1929
Read the prologue on pg. 274 of American Spirit
Read your assigned section A. - D.
Write a summary on the following questions…
What was the main purpose behind the assigned section?
How was this section’s segment(s) of the population affected by the “Roaring Twenties”
A – The Revival of Antiforeignism (immigrants and nativists)
B – The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants [WASPs] and non-WASPs)
C – The Wets Versus the Drys (supports of prohibition and opponents of prohibition)
D – The New Goals of Women (supporters of gender equality and opponents of gender equality)

12. The Revival of Antiforeignism

13. The Reconstituted Ku Klux Klan

14. The Wets versus the Drys

15. New Goals for Women

16. Warm-up: Partner Review—People’s history (Chapter 15 –Self-Help in Hard times)
What previous knowledge was confirmed in the text?
What new knowledge was put forth in the text?
What surprised you about the text?
What confused you about the text?

17. Term Definition
Define the following terms related to the start of the Great Depression
Speculation
Overproduction
Underconsumption
Buying on margin
Tariff
Capital
Credit
Stock Market Crash

18. Document Based Question: What Caused the Great Depression?
Read the background essay
Analyze the documents around the room; record the main idea of each document
Organize the documents by causes (2 / 3); documents 1 – 4 are contextual and do not need to be organized
Clearly state how each cause contributed to the decline of the economy
Write an introductory paragraph—“What caused the Great Depression?”
Present contextualization (highlight / underline)
Present a clear, analytical thesis (highlight / underline)

19. Warm-Up: The Great Depression
If someone says it better, let them say it… CRASH COURSE #33
While watching, complete the fill-in notes!

20. The Face of the Great Depression (pgs. 309 – 315)
Choose one of the four “excerpts” to read and analyze
Describe in one paragraph the situation and reaction of your chosen “Face of the Great Depression”
Raise your hand when you are finished and you will begin on the Period 7 Test [PART 1]

21. Testing Procedures Clear desks—except test and pencil/pen
No talking—see policy on cheating in syllabus
No “peeking” anywhere—see policy on cheating in syllabus
No cell phones, iPods, tablets, laptops, etc.—see policy on cheating in syllabus

22. Period 7: (1890 – 1945) [PART 1] Test
DO NOT WRITE ON THE TEST QUESTION SHEET—only write on the test answer sheet