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Lesson Topic
The Roaring Twenties
Lesson Outline
We continued our discussion of the roaring twenties and how the increase in people's leisure time allowed them to listen more to the radio, and follow the lives of celebrities, from sport stars (like Babe Ruth) to pilots (like Lindbergh and Earhart). Women were voting, better educated, and working. We discussed other new aspects of pop culture (art deco architecture and dances like the Charleston) and jazz, which was so popular that this decade is also called the Jazz Age. We discussed the great migration and the Harlem Renaissance - an intellectual and cultural revival of Black art, literature, fashion, music, and politics. We noted some of the more prominent names of this movement, which included writers like Langston Hughes and jazz artists such as Duke Ellington. We saw how people began fighting for civil rights, including some of the groups that were founded and some acts that were passed (e.g., the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full citizenship to Indigenous Americans). Ben was well-informed and contributed a lot of additional information to supplement and, in some instances, refute those put forth in the text. We discussed his idea to change government by diversifying it, which Ben strongly believes would go a long way to fixing some of our current problems. It was an interesting tangent to our discussion.
Session Minutes
45
Minutes Student Attended
45
Session Hours
0.75
Hours Attended
0.75
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