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TSWU

• The student will understand the decade of the
  Roaring Twenties by creating a multitude of
  multi-media mediums.

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Changing Lifestyles

• A Problem Solving Activity Multimedia
  Presentation of Changing Lifestyles in the
  Roaring 20s

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Discuss Focus 15.1
• Divide class into groups of 5

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Understanding key social changes in the Roaring
  20s
• Consumerism
• The Harlem Renaissance
• Prohibition
• The Popularity of Radio Movies
• Sports Mania
• Improved Transportation
• The Changing Role of Women

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• The 1920s was one of the most raucous, boisterous
  decades in U.S. History. Despite the economic
  political strife that marked the early twenties,
  by 1923 a new prosperity allowed Americans to
  enjoy luxuries unknown during wartime, to
  embrace new forms of entertainment, such as
  radio, sports, jazz music, movies.
• For much of the decade, American society
  resembled a boiling kettle, fairly bursting with
  the wailing sounds of jazz, wildly dancing feet,
  the roar of thousands cheering on sports heroes
  like Babe Ruth, and conversations laced with such
  slang as banana oil, struggle buggy, sheik,
  and sheba.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Emerging from this lively social milieu were a
  number of significant enduring trends that
  altered the American cultural landscape.
• New forms of transportation such as the
  automobile the airplane changed dating habits,
  mail service, personal mobility.
• Women, who had obtained the right to vote in
  1920, celebrated new freedoms in the workplace as
  well as their social life, reflected in part by
  less restrictive clothing.
• Government attempts to regulate drinking through
  Prohibition laws spawned countless illegal bars
  organized crime rackets.
• Sports took prominence in American society as a
  new brand of enthusiasts elevated sports heroes
  to Olympian magnitude.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• With more money to spend, Americans bought
  everything from vacuum cleaners to Listerine,
  radios became a household necessity.
• Talking movies replaced silent films,
  Americans flocked to see their favorite movie
  stars.
• The decade also witnessed the flowering of
  African-American culture centered in Harlem - the
  Harlem Renaissance - that influenced American
  culture music for decades to come.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Each group will become anexpert on one key
  social change
• You will be responsible for helping the rest of
  class understand the change.
• 5-7 minute multimedia presentation, power point,
  posters, graphs, music, slides, facsimiles of
  cultural artifacts, short dramatic
  re-creations.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Step 1 Review your role
• Planning coordinator - Learns about the social
  change by carefully reading Student Handout 1.4A
  and examining Student Handout 1.4B. Leads process
  for planning MM presentations. Records
  transparency order writes presentation notes
  for each transparency on Student Handout 1.4C.
  Help create visuals props. Writes presents a
  brief introduction for the presentation.
• Researcher - Leads the group in reading the
  information on Student Handout 1.4B, discussing
  the social change. Highlights key ideas on
  Student Handout 1.4A. Acquires additional
  information about the social change from
  textbooks, the library or the teacher. Write a
  brief narration for the first transparency. Helps
  plan the MM presentation. Help create visuals
  props. Leads presentation of the first
  transparency.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Step 1 Review your role contd.
• Narration Manager - Learns about the social
  change by carefully reading Student Handout 1.4A
  and examining Student Handout 1.4B. Helps plan
  the MM presentation. Leads the process for
  writing the narration of the presentation. Writes
  brief narration of 2nd transparency. Helps create
  /or gather props visuals. Leads presentation
  of the 2nd transparency.
• Artistic Designer - Learns about the social
  change by carefully reading Student Handout 1.4A
  and examining Student Handout 1.4B. Helps plan
  the MM presentation. Writes brief narration of
  3rd transparency. Lists gathers MM components,
  including music /or sound effects, oversees
  creation of visuals for the presentation. Leads
  presentation of 3rd transparency.
• Director - Learns about the social change by
  carefully reading Student Handout 1.4A and
  examining Student Handout 1.4B. Helps plan the MM
  presentation. Writes brief narration of 4th
  transparency. Help create visuals props. Leads
  rehearsal process. Leads presentation of the 4th
  transparency.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Step 2 Learn about your social change.
• Carefully read discuss the information on
  Student Handout 1.4A examine the pictures on
  Student Handout 1.4B. As you read the
  information, the Researcher should highlight key
  ideas about your social change
• Step 3 Plan your MM presentation.
• You must create a 5-7 minute MM presentation that
  educates viewers on the historical significance
  of your social change.
• Use Student handout 1.4C to plan your
  presentation. As you do so, the Planning
  Coordinator should make sure the presentation
  plan includes
• the order in which you will present your
  transparencies.
• The main points that will will be included in the
  narration to accompany each transparency.
• At least 3 types of media, such as graphs, music,
  sound effects, video, posters, facsimiles of
  cultural artifacts, dramatic re-creations,
  reading of literature or poetry, or
  demonstrations.

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1.4 Multimedia Presentation of Changing
Lifestyles in the Roaring 20s

• Step 4 Write the introduction narration of
  your presentation.
• Your group must write a brief introduction
  narration for each transparency in your MM
  presentation. You will work together to develop
  the ideas for the introduction narration, but
  each group member must write the text for one
  part of the presentation. The Narration Manager
  should make sure the introduction 4 brief
  narrations are written that the information is
  clear lively.
• Step 5 Prepare materials for your presentation.
• Your MM presentation must include multimedia
  components. You must create or gather MM
  components visuals. As you prepare for your
  presentation, the Artistic Designer should make
  sure the group creates clear, aesthetically
  pleasing visuals, that the MM components are
  effectively incorporated into the presentation.
• Step 6 Rehearse your presentation.
• Make sure all group members clearly understand
  their responsibilities for the presentation,
  that the presentation can be presented in the
  allotted time of 5-7 minutes. As you rehearse
  your MM presentation, the Director should make
  sure
• the presentation flows smoothly, the MM
  components are used effectively
• the lines are spoken clearly, at an appropriate
  volume, with dramatic emphasis.