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America! - Roaring Jazz
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COMBINED RATING
4.1 Stars
TEACHERS (2)
5.0
STUDENTS (8)
3.1
LENGTH
20 Minutes
GRADES
5
6
7
8
CAPABILITIES
Text-to-Speech Support
Saves Progress
Description
Dive into the 1920s, where jazz, nightlife, and Wall Street collide. Solve puzzles, uncover stories, and navigate a decade of dazzling change.
Vocabulary Words
Stock market
Smugglers
Prohibition
Roadster
Flappers
Harlem Renaissance
Stockbroker
Red Scare
Instructions
Play through this interactive game to learn about The Jazz Age. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.
Main Concepts
Analyze how Edna St. Vincent Millay's poetry captures the spirit of rebellion and fleeting joy characteristic of 1920s youth culture.
Analyze how youth culture in the 1920s challenged traditional family authority and embraced new forms of rebellion and independence.
Analyze the political leadership of Harding and Coolidge and how their pro-business, limited government policies shaped the economic climate of the 1920s.
Analyze how economic prosperity was uneven during the 1920s, particularly for farmers, African Americans, and recent immigrants.
Explain how mass media innovations like radio, movies, and national magazines created a shared popular culture across the United States.
Evaluate the significance of the Scopes Trial in illustrating the conflict between traditional religious beliefs and modern scientific ideas.
Analyze the Sacco and Vanzetti case as an example of nativist attitudes and fear of political radicals in the 1920s.
Explain how fear of radicalism during the Red Scare led to violations of civil liberties and shaped immigration policy.
Analyze the impact of Prohibition on American society, including the rise of organized crime and changes in public attitudes toward government authority.
Evaluate how the Harlem Renaissance expressed African American cultural pride and contributed to broader American culture during the 1920s.
Explain how the flapper image and the Jazz Age reflected challenges to traditional social norms during the 1920s.
Analyze how technological innovations like mass production and expanded electricity access transformed American daily life and industrial output.
Describe the economic prosperity and stock market growth of the 1920s and explain how they shaped public attitudes toward business and wealth.
Discussion Questions
Before the Game
What aspects of life were improved by the Industrial Age? How was prosperity increasing?
After the Game
How did people get around the law against Prohibition? Why was Jazz Age significant?
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