Materials Needed Ready to Turn In

• Notebook iCivics Sub

• Writing utensil Assignments

Friday, March 22nd

Do Now:
Write down everything you remember
about World War 1 (Who was in it, where
it was fought, what trench warfare was)
 Define the following on the paper provided
• Sanctions: Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties
applied by one or more countries
• Demilitarized: he reduction of a country’s armed forces
• Disarmament: the reduction or withdrawal of military forces and
weapons.
• Collective responsibility: an aggressor against any one state is
considered an aggressor against all other states
• Reparations: compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a
defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered
during or as a result of war.
• League of Nations: an international organization to promote world
peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles
• War Guilt Clause: statement that Germany was responsible for
beginning World War I
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Friday, March 22nd

Do Now:
What was “Roaring” about the 1920s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd-BMhOOhg
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Monday, March 25th

Do Now:
What is the purpose of a pre-test?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejd-BMhOOhg
 24.1 Notes

•For each section from the reading take outline

style notes in the right hand column.
•After taking the 2-5 bullet notes, answer the
main idea question in the left hand column
•Finally at the bottom of the page, summarize
the reading in one to two sentences
 3/27 Advisory

1. Finish reading Ch. 1

2. Complete the Chapter Analysis
(handout from Tuesday) – due
Thurs.
3. Complete Forward 8 questions –
Thursday
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Wednesday, March 27th

Do Now:
Using the bar graph on page 755, answer
why you think car registration rose so
much in the 1920s?
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OykTKMTEiqQ

America After World War I

• 1919 crazy year- strikes, race riots, Red Scare, economy

struggled  people blamed Europe, immigrants and Wilson
• Warren G. Harding  “return to normalcy” lower taxes, less
gov. regulation, no League of Nations
• Congress passed Fordney-McCumber Tariff to help economy
after war  set highest taxes on foreign goods which helped US
businesses
Main Idea- Harding offered lower taxes and less regulation to
help economy grow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeOQjyuPCms
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOsmV54Mxdg

Mixed Industrial Success

• Lowering income tax rates and cheap fuel helped economy

• Ford’s assembly lines made cars faster and cheaper
• Unable to buy all these new goods people bought using credit
and installment buying (debt)
• Problems  monopolies became problems again  higher
prices, better farm machinery meant cheap food, income gap
grew
Main Idea: lower taxes mean people have more money, cars
accessable, people went into debt, had to pay higher prices
 Coolidge Takes Over
• Harding’s cabinet corrupt ex. Teapot Dome where oil executives
bribed Albert Fall to buy gov. land
• Harding embarrassed to death  Calvin Coolidge new president
• Coolidge wanted to clean up gov
• Believed in laissez-faire economics = less gov. regulation = better business
• Gov shouldn’t help with social and economic problems
• Useful appliances and shorter work hours = more leisure (free)
time  went to see movies, listen to radio and sports
• Not everyone doing better = farmers, African Americans and
minorities were more limited
Main Idea: Coolidge had to clean up gov. to make his party look
better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjL-uE4lSvI
Rest of Class

•Work on 24.1 RQ
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Thursday, March 28 th

Do Now:
Summarize the Teapot Dome scandal
into two sentences
 24.2 Notes

•For each section from the reading take outline

style notes in the right hand column.
•After taking the 2-5 bullet notes, answer the
main idea question in the left hand column
•Finally at the bottom of the page, summarize
the reading in one to two sentences
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Friday, March 29 th

Do Now:
What activities did Americans enjoy
with their leisure time in the ‘20s?
 Daily Life in the Twenties

• Young women becoming flappers- trying latest fashion,

dances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QegIgnarTH4
• Jazz music popular- mix of African rhythms, ragtime and
blues
• Women of the time had more independence than ever
before
• Mass media of the time- movies and radio  united
Americans
 Daily Life in the Twenties

• Scopes Trial- man taught evolution even though it

was illegal, TN Supreme court found him innocent
• Scientists vs. Fundamentalists (every word in Bible
literally true)
• Prohibition: made making or selling alcohol illegal
• unpopular- people went to speakeasies to get alcohol
and organized crime increased
• Officially failed in 1933 with 21st amendment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJoZrJknJJE
 24.2 Notes

•For each section from the reading take outline

style notes in the right hand column.
•After taking the 2-5 bullet notes, answer the
main idea question in the left hand column
•Finally at the bottom of the page, summarize
the reading in one to two sentences
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • First two weeks of Bellwork
• Writing utensil • 24.1 + 24.2 RQ

Monday, April 8 th

Do Now:
Describe what happened in the Scopes
Trial
 Seniors Tomorrow: 4/9
• 5th Hour Today: discuss expectations, provide permission slips, collect post-secondary
plans and give out tickets for Senior Signing Day.
• tomorrow, all seniors need to meet in the auditorium. At that time, we will collect
permission slips and take attendance.
• 3.) Here is the itinerary for tomorrow:
• At 8:30 a.m. we will board buses to depart.
• We will arrive to Emagine Novi between 9:00 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. - We will be viewing
the Best of Enemies.
• After the movie, we will have lunch (location tbd)
• We will depart and arrive to Plum Hollow Lanes between 1:00p - 1:30p. They will
bowl one game.
• We will arrive back at the school after the students are completed with their games.
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • First two weeks of Bellwork
• Writing utensil • 24.1 + 24.2 RQ

Wednesday, April 10th

Do Now:
Was Prohibition a success or a failure?
Explain why. (24.2)
 24.3 Notes

•For each section from the reading take outline

style notes in the right hand column.
•After taking the 2-5 bullet notes, answer the
main idea question in the left hand column
•Finally at the bottom of the page, summarize
the reading in one to two sentences
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Thursday, April 11 th

Do Now:
How did Marcus Garvey want to deal
with the racism he saw in the US?
 Rising Expectations for African Americans

• Great Migration and new jobs led to better expectation

for African Americans
• AA moving north led to racial tensions  race riots, KKK
• Marcus Garvey fed up with racism, wanted to establish
his own nation in Africa  ended up failing but inspired
pride and dignity
• NAACP worked for the enforcement of civil and voting
rights for AAs, wanted to end segregation, Crisis mag.
 The Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem in NYC was world’s largest black urban

community in 20s
• Harlem Renaissance- a burst of cultural activity
like writers, musicians
• Langston Hughes, poet
• Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington- musicians
• Lost Generation- American writers disappointed
with America’s decisions
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Wednesday, December 19 th

Do Now:
Who were the Lost Generation and
where did they move to?
 Roaring Twenties Quiz
•Open note so use 12.1-12.3 notes only!
•(Readings or Reading Questions us will
result in a zero!)
•When finished, turn in to two piles on my
desk
•30 minutes for the quiz, than moving on to
the movie
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

Thursday, December 20 th

Do Now:
What are your family’s holiday
traditions?