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America in Class: America in the 1920s: Modern Youth
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modern Youth. A collection of commentaries and films from the 1920s on perceptions about youth at that time.

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Social Studies
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Native & Foreign
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Native & Foreign. It looks at immigration in the 1920s.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: New York City Subway Posters
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: New York City Subway Posters. Pasted to the inside of the windows and changed frequently, the "Subway Sun" and the "Elevated Express" posters were designed to capture hurried riders' attention for a quick take on city and national issues, often related to urban life in the rapidly modernizing times. Presented here are twenty of the 385 21"x16" posters.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: New Yorker Cartoons
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: New Yorker Cartoons. In this collection are thirteen New Yorker cartoons from 1925 through 1929 that encapsulate the magazine's take on "the Age." Among the topics are the modern woman, the city, the automobile, radio, Prohibition, the Klan, the Scopes trial, consumerism, stock speculation, and the event that dramatically ended "the age" - the stock market crash of October 1929.

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Social Studies
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Primary Source
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Only Yesterday Year by Year
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties, 1931 (selections) by Frederick Lewis Allen. Appearing only two years after the 1929 crash, Allen's "informal history" offered its readers a sympathetic yet clear-eyed look at the tumultuous decade from which they had been catapulted by the economic collapse.

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Social Studies
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Primary Source
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Age of Prosperity
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: "Age of Prosperity." An overview of the 1920s decade's perspective on itself, as an "age of prosperity." Was the nation's economic engine a charged dynamo or a short-fused bomb? Presents a collection of commentaries and political cartoons from the 1920s.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Business
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Business. Looks at how 'Business' was a critical element of America's economic success. Presents commentaries and a literary excerpt.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Consumerism
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Consumerism. Looks at the rise of consumerism in the 1920s with mass production of goods. Presents a collection of commentaries, a painting by Florine Stettheimer, humorists' ideas about salesmanship, and silent commercials for consumer goods.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Crash
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Crash. Here we examine commentary and political cartoons that illustrate the pivotal moment in American history when the stock market crashed in 1929.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Labor Strike
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Labor Strike. Studying the broad reaction to labor strikes in the early 1920s requires a broad selection of genres - here we consider newspaper coverage of a specific strike, a novelist's portrayal of a strike's polarizing effects, and two cartoon animators' humorous takes on "the strike."

Subject:
Social Studies
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Primary Source
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Prosperity: Labor Union
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards historical documents, literary texts, and works of art thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Labor Union. In the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor, struggling to affirm a moderate stance in the trade union movement, moved to defend itself against mounting charges of disloyalty and radicalism. Presents documents and film from the AFL.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
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National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science. Includes a collection of commentaries on the religion-science debate of the 1920s, followed by a Felix the Cat cartoon where he goes to Africa to look for proof of Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Mathematics
Science
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Primary Source
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: The Age
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: "The Age We Live In." Here we peruse Twenties' commentary from witty one-liners and contest entries to newspaper editorials and intellectuals' analysis.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: America in the 1920s: Wets & Drys
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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Wets & Drys. Includes news items on Prohibition, political cartoons, art work, and newsreels of the day.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: Aylmer's Motivation in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark"
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Lesson on why Aylmer, the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark," undertakes his fatal experiment. Lesson contents contain literary text, strategies for analysis, and vocabulary.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
10/03/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Divisions
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Collection of primary resources includes historical documents, film, literary texts, and works of art with notes and discussion questions on the conflict and divisions characterizing the 1920s.

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Social Studies
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National Humanities Center
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America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Modernity
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Primary resources from 1920s period offers a sense of cultural, social, political and economic thought during that time period. Includes notes, questions for discussion, and links to supplemental material.

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Social Studies
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Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Prosperity
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Collection of six sections with primary resource material on the prosperity achieved during the 1920s explores consumerism, labor, and business. Includes notes, discussion questions and links to supplemental sources.

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Social Studies
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Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023
America in Class: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: The Age
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A collection of primary source material from the modern age, explores the 1920s and how it relates to today. Section includes introductory notes, classroom discussion questions, and supplemental links to related resources.

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Social Studies
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Primary Source
Provider:
National Humanities Center
Provider Set:
America in Class
Date Added:
08/07/2023